IBS confirms commitment to global publishing market at London Book Fair

News & Events 2007-03-15

London Book Fair, Earls Court 16-18 April 2007, Stand Q200

IBS has increased its visibility in and around this year’s London Book Fair with a range of high profile sponsorships, guest speakers and prominent stand. The enhanced investment in the show is evidence of IBS’ global commitment and ambition to become the world’s leading provider of complete business software solutions for the publishing industry.

IBS is sponsoring the Chairman’s Breakfast, a high profile event that effectively opens the London Book Fair. Mike Irving, IBS Vice President, Publishing, comments, “We wanted to sponsor this high profile event because it shows our real commitment to the publishing market. It is important that we demonstrate our understanding of the real needs of publishers and our ability to respond to them.”

He continues, “At last year’s show, we announced the acquisition of TMS. This year, we are announcing that this acquisition is very much complete and that we have invested and grown the business and are delivering our unrivalled industry-specific product range and market expertise. Recent months have seen us add a number of key new customers all over the world and we are set to continue this growth.”

The publishing specific system, IBS Bookmaster, has a huge advantage as it started with a very strong base of tremendous book distribution functionality. In addition, best of breed solutions, such as editorial and book production and royalties functionality, have been developed and seamlessly integrated into the system. Additional areas such as business intelligence, e-Commerce and CRM make IBS Bookmaster a complete integrated solution for publishers and book distributors.

Mike Irving concludes, “IBS is a multi-national software organisation with more than 2,000 employees and offices in over 40 countries. No other publishing industry specific software supplier can offer this level of comprehensive global coverage and product investment. We are in a unique position that existing customers appreciate and potential customers are very interested in.”

For further details or photography, please contact: Mike Irving IBS Corporate Headquarters +44 (0) 208 327 1400 mike.irving@ibs.net

Jack Gocher JGC PR +44 (0) 1494 724113 jack@jgc-pr.co.uk