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Since our inception, when we began
developing our interior design software, 20-20 Technologies have expanded our business into
various segments in both the residential and commercial markets and have
expanded geographically into new markets around the world including the United
States, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
In 1986, an early version of our interior design software was endorsed as the "industry
standard" by a leading trade association. Since then, we have continued to
develop our software and its applications, expanded our business and products
and increased our market penetration around the world. We introduced our
products in Europe in 1990 and in Asia Pacific and Latin America in 1992, and we
established operating subsidiaries in these areas in 1990, 2000 and 2001
respectively.
Over the past several years, we have completed a number of strategic
acquisitions. In the commercial interior design market segment, we acquired:
Intellicon, Inc. of Jacksonville, Florida, a leading developer and supplier of
space planning and specification software in October 2000; Facet, Inc. of Hollis,
New Hampshire ("Facet"), the designer and distributor of the Giza software
products, a leading computer-aided sales software, in February 2001; and the
business of CAP, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, the leading space planning and specification software provider in
North America, in June 2002. These strategic acquisitions have enabled us to
become the leading provider of computer-aided design and sales software for the
commercial and residential interior design markets and to establish a strategic
location in Grand Rapids, Michigan (the North American capital of office
furniture industry) for our operations in the commercial interior design market.
In July 2002, we acquired SPI Software S.A. of France that complemented our
product portfolio with a strong offering in CAE and MRP. We have successfully
integrated these businesses into a single organization capable of offering
end-to-end solutions for the interior design industry. |
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