Audio Interview w/ Antoine Medawar, President & CEO, Optims - Comments on the Acquisition of Hogatex

Antoine Medawar wants to be number one - plain and simple. Ask him, he'll tell you. Already a leader in business intelligence solutions, Optims is even stronger now with the recent acquisition of Hogatex. We caught up with Antoine in Evry, France, home of Optims. In this streaming audio interview, we'll tell you all about the deal and get his comments as well.

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About Optims - Operating in the hospitality and tourism industries, Evry, France-based Optims for 10 years has been developing three complementary technologies: The Optims Revenue Management System (RMS); Property Management System (PMS) and Central Reservation System (CRS). Optims is the leading European developer of Information Technology solutions for the hospitality market. The company has more than 3,900 clients in more than 55 countries. Among Optims' prestigious clientele are companies such as: Accor, Le Meridien, FRAM, Thistle, Boscolo, Nouvelles Frontières, Radisson, and the Savoy Group. Optims issued its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Nouveau Marché in the Paris Stock Exchange in June 2000 (SICOVAM code 7652). For more information, please visit www.optims.com.

Hogatex is one of the world's leading providers of premium solutions in the hotel and foodservice industry. Renowned customers include Accor, the European market leader and one of the world's largest hotel groups with 3,500 hotels, as well as Astron, the luxury group Beachcomber, Howard Johnson Argentina, the Swiss Hapimag group and Restel, one of the biggest hotel chains in Finland. Further hotels working with Hogatex solutions include the Palace Hotel Gstaad, Wenzhou Guo Mao Grand Hotel, Mayfair Hotel, Shanghai, Beverly Plaza Macau and the Montecasino, Johannesburg. Among well-known users of our Corporate Conference Manager solution are E.on Düsseldorf, the Unique Airport Conference Center in Zurich and the FIFA Fédération Internationale de Football Association, Zurich. For more information, please visit www.hogatex.com.

Kevin Heilbronner is the US Editor for hsyndicate.com, wiredhotelier.com and hospitalitynet.org, providing content for these websites in the form of articles and both audio and video interviews. Based outside of Washington DC, Heilbronner has worked with Hospitality Net to conduct interviews at several hospitality trade shows in the US and Europe over the last year. A familiar voice in Washington, DC, Heilbronner is the stadium announcer for the NBA's Washington Wizards, WNBA's Washington Mystics, WUSA's Washington Freedom and DC United of MLS. He resides in Centreville, VA and can be reached via [email protected].

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