Vaterstetten n. Munich, 8 May 2003 - On April 1 this year, Hogatex opened a subsidiary in Düsseldorf, Germany. The team of dedicated experts with a long experience in the restaurant IT, was already hired in January. Christian Steinkampf, Director F&B Systems and heading international sales for Hogatex, directs the Düsseldorf office from his base in Munich: "With Hogatex Düsseldorf we are going to establish another competence centre for the Hogatex foodservice and POS product range."

Already four years ago, Hogatex started to build up sales for the US American POS solution InfoGenesis in EMEA. Since then Hogatex has won the "reseller of the year award" several years in succession. Christian Steinkampf continues, "More and more foodservice and catering companies focus on ways of cutting costs by the aid of most modern technology like application service providing (ASP) and enterprise solutions, i. e.: solutions for restaurant or catering chains and groups. Our portfolio perfectly satisfies this demand. Consequently, we further extend our team of POS specialists. The Düsseldorf division already did a couple of very successful installations for Hogatex. More details will be published shortly."

Jürgen Altenhoff, a renowned specialist with more than 20 years experience in the restaurant and catering business, is going to support Hogatex' POS competence centre in Düsseldorf. Jürgen Altenhoff held key positions for Nixdorf, which later became Siemens-Nixdorf, Fidelio, later Micros-Fidelio and then XN. Now he started his own business with "Altenhoff & Partner."

Hogatex Managing Director Richard Kürzl comments: "We are happy about having Jürgen Altenhoff with his extensive experience and expertise on board. As our external key account manager, Jürgen Altenhoff is going to support our sales force within the Hogatex POS product range.

In terms of technology and operations Hogatex Düsseldorf is completely integrated into Hogatex Munich and thus profits from the headquarters' IT network as well as its strict quality control.

About Hogatex - Hogatex, member of the Optims group, is the world's leading Europe-based provider of software solutions for the hospitality industry. The Hogatex Business Intelligence Suite covers nearly the complete industry's software demand, including: Property Management Systems (PMS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Revenue Management Systems (RMS/Yield), Point of Sale Systems (POS), Back Office Systems (BO - Stock & Inventory Control), Wellness-, Spa- & Sport-Management and Central Reservation Systems (CRS).

The group services more than 5.000 customers in over 75 countries, i. e.:

Accor, Meritus Hotels & Resorts, Hyatt International, the luxury group Beachcomber, Howard Johnson Argentina, the Swiss Hapimag group and Restel, one of the biggest hotel and restaurant chains in Finland, as well as the to date highest hotel in the world: the Burj Al Arab in Dubai. Additional companies working with Hogatex solutions include E.ON Düsseldorf and Munich, the Unique Airport Conference Center in Zurich, the FIFA, the Westfalenhallen Dortmund (Dortmund fairgrounds) and the UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland).

Eva Markowitz
Marketing Director
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