MATERNA sets up Asia Pacific hub in Singapore – launch event in November
New subsidiary founded in Singapore
Dortmund, Germany, 27 July 2004
MATERNA Information & Communications, Dortmund/Germany based telecommunications specialist, continues it’s internationalisation strategy by founding MATERNA Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. All sales activities for the Asian Pacific region will be managed at the new location in Singapore.
Using it’s experience with sales co-operations in Hong Kong and Thailand, MATERNA continues it’s expansion in Asia by founding a subsidiary in Singapore. The growth potential of the telecommunications market in South East Asia, including Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore, is estimated as being very high.
The new subsidiary will target wireless and fixed line carriers as well as media enterprises. MATERNA will offer it’s wide spectrum of telecommunication solutions based on SMS, MMS, WAP, Java and IP Messaging. Furthermore, the company intends to introduce CUSS (Common Use Self Service) applications to airlines and airports. The newly formed subsidiary will have it’s launch event from 15-19 November at the 3G World Congress&Exhibition 2004 in Hong Kong. Helmut an de Meulen, CEO of MATERNA, will speak at the event and the company introduces it’s product portfolio to the region.
MATERNA Asia Pacific Pte Ltd is managed by Terrence Liew, who has been actively involved in the field of telecommunications and IT for more than 12 years. He is newly appointed to head MATERNA Asia Pacific. He has excellent knowledge about the Asian Pacific market, not least because of his work for Nokia Networks (Asia Pacific) in particular for Japan and South Korea.
MATERNA Information & Communications
MATERNA is a leading software company in the field of information and communication technology. The company employs worldwide 1.100 staff members and its turnover was estimated to more than 142 million Euros for the year 2003. Beside the head office in Dortmund, the company has offices and subsidiaries located all over Germany as well as in Austria, Belgium, Czech republic, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand and USA. In the Business Unit Information, MATERNA develops integrated IT solutions for process optimization involving companies and public administration. This includes the topic fields Portals, Information Management, Service and IT Infrastructure Management. The Business Unit Communications offers products and solutions from the business area Mobile Solutions and Unified Messaging. This includes in particular value-added services for mobile and fixed net on base of SMS, MMS, WAP and Mobile Java which are distributed under the brand name Anny Way. The Anny Way Academy is active on the market in terms of trainings and consulting services as found in practice.
For further details, please contact:
MATERNA Information & Communications
Antje Krämer
antje.kraemer@materna.de
Phone +49 173 70 11 085
www.materna.comwww.annyway.com
