SAN
DIEGO - November 21, 2002 - Trade Service,
the leading provider of content management
solutions for the electrical, plumbing/PVF,
HVACR, and industrial MRO industries,
announced today that it has executed
a signed partnership agreement with
Prelude Systems, Inc., the leading provider
of distribution-centric business systems.
The two companies have recently merged
their core strengths in content and
business-to-business applications to
help these distributors fully leverage
their back office systems and the Internet
to achieve the benefits of electronic
data management and B2B e-commerce.
"Trade Service
and Prelude are strategically aligned
to create better value for electrical,
plumbing/PVF, HVACR, and industrial
MRO distributors through our content
and software offerings," said Tony
Dubreville, President and CEO of Trade
Service. "Prelude's extensive product
portfolio, leveraged with Trade Service's
industry leading content solutions,
will optimize supply chain communications
that can significantly increase our
customers' profit margins."
In accordance with their agreement,
Trade Service will integrate their content
delivery and e-commerce enabling solutions,
with Prelude's various automation and
web-enabling systems. This will allow
both companies to deliver to their mutual
customer base high quality content to
streamline product file management as
well as expand their e-commerce opportunities
by enabling buyers to locate products
online quickly and easily.
"By combining the
distribution software expertise of Prelude
and the content database expertise of
Trade Service, we can better accommodate
our customers' increasingly complex
and unique business requirements,"
said Don Webb, President. "We are
excited about the prospect of driving
significant time and cost savings to
our customers that this new partnership
provides."
About Prelude Systems
Prelude Systems, Inc.
is a leading high-technology provider
of customer-centric enterprise solutions
for customer service, integrated customer
relationship management, asset management,
and e-commerce for high volume industrial
distributors. Prelude's mission is to
help distributors maximize efficiency,
quality, and competitive advantagethrough
the use of advanced information systems
technology. Prelude is a Premier IBM
Business Partner.
Prelude Systems employs
extremely flexible IBM multidimensional
database technology. This permits Prelude
to accommodate distributors' unique requirements
while maintaining upgrade compatibility
with new software releases containing
best practices and emerging technologies.
As a result, Prelude has been able to
upgrade customers throughout its 22-year
history without charging application upgrade
license fees to its existing customer.
For more information on Prelude Systems,
browse their website at www.prelude.com
or contact Michele Cobb at 1-800-922-0099.
About Trade Service
Trade Service Corporation is the leading
provider of standardized product and
price information to the electrical,
plumbing/PVF, HVACR, industrial MRO,
and office products industries. Since
1931, the company has been the leader
in content acquisition, aggregation,
management, publishing, and distribution,
offering a variety of products, services,
and systems to meet the content needs
of over 20,000 distributors, contractors,
government agencies and “buy side” Fortune
1000 subscribers. The range of solutions
provided includes printed directories,
electronic catalogs, pricing data for
business system updating, and robust
attributed content to fuel full-functioning
Internet storefronts. For more information,
visit www.tradeservice.com.
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