Company Profile | January 23, 2001

Lectra Systems Inc

Source: Lectra

Lectra's global technological offering, which answers the need for new business models for the new economy, is based on four key components: e-design, e-manufacturing, e-sales and the newly launched LectraOnline Lectra's
global technological offering, which answers the need for new business models for the new economy, is based on four key components: e-design, e-manufacturing, e-sales and the newly launched LectraOnline. This new offer is built around three international Call Centers that will come online 24/7 during 2001. The world leader in its markets, Lectra has a staff of 1,500 people and an international network of 38 subsidiaries and 78 around the world. World Technological Leader

Technological innovation is at the heart of Lectra's business and values. Every year, the group dedicates significant human and financial resources to its research and development strategy. Thanks to these continuing efforts, Lectra offers leading-edge technology today in all its sector markets, and has strengthened its worldwide leadership.

Over 70 Million Euros Invested In 5 Years

Lectra has invested more than 70 million euros in R&D over the last five years. The company gives top priority to innovation so that it can offer its 10,000 customers ever more innovative and high-performance technological solutions.

A Structured E-Business Offer

Through a focused effort, Lectra has expanded its expertise in all areas of CAD/CAM software and equipment, across all of its markets, enabling each product area to develop simultaneously.

Lectra is giving top priority to the Internet and virtual reality technologies that will enable its customers to successfully enter the new economy. To that end, Lectra has integrated its products and solutions into a new offering with four key components: e-design, e-manufacturing, e-sales and LectraOnline.

200 Engineers Around The World

Today, 200 engineers and technicians are dedicated to R&D in Europe (Bordeaux and Paris, France and Nuremberg, Germany), North America (Atlanta, Georgia and Grand Rapids, Michigan) and Asia (Hong Kong). Working together in collaboratively adds value to their respective skills and experience.

The Bordeaux Industrial Site: A Technological Showcase

Lectra's main production facility in Bordeaux-Cestas, France was expanded to 290,000 sq. ft. (27,000 square meters) in 1999 to meet the company's growing production needs. The site has been reorganized and restructured to provide a comprehensive response to production demands, and the best possible service to the company's clients.

A Customer-Driven Strategy

Attentive to the needs of our 10,000 customers and to the evolution of different markets, Lectra anticipates our client's future requirements in order to offer integrated high-tech solutions perfectly adapted to each business.

Lectra's Leadership: Acknowledged and Acclaimed

The company regularly receives awards for technological leadership and innovation from prestigious institutions.

In 1998, Lectra received the Innovation Trophy from the French national institute of industrial property, and the Innovation Award from the United Kingdom's Association of Suppliers to the Furniture Industry (ASFI) for Mosaic, the matched fabric cutting solution. In 1999, Ernest Antoine Seillière, President of Medef, awarded the company the International Technology Award, thus rewarding Lectra's continuing innovation.