Ixonos Plc Stock Exchange Release 23 August 2007
IXONOS SETS UP A NEW OFFICE IN GERMANY
Ixonos Plc founds a subsidiary in Germany and opens an office in Bochum. The
German subsidiary will produce software development services for Ixonos
Telecommunications Business Unit's client projects.
The Bochum site will especially focus on development of multimedia features of
smartphones. With the new office Ixonos intends to advance the close and
expanding co-operation between the product development teams of Ixonos and those
of its clients operating in Germany. The Bochum unit will work in close
co-operation with Ixonos Telecommunications Business Unit's Finnish sites and
with the Kosice (Slovakia) subsidiary established in March 2007.
At the time of establishment of the new subsidiary, the Bochum site employs c.
10 software experts.
Ixonos operates in the ICT service markets, offering its customers flexible
technology consulting, software development and maintenance and project
management solutions that support their competitiveness and risk management.
Ixonos´s clientele comprises leading mobile and smartphone manufacturers
operating on the global markets, mobile network suppliers and telecom operators
as well as Finnish finance companies and public administration organisations.
Ixonos has its headquarter in Helsinki and local offices in Espoo, Jyväskylä,
Kemi, Oulu, Rovaniemi, Salo, Tampere and Turku. Group's subsidiaries have
officies in Haapajärvi, Tallinn, Estonia and Kosice, Slovak Republic. Ixonos's
turnover in 2006 was 39.2 MEUR and operating profit 3.9 MEUR. The number of
personnel exceeds 700.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Ixonos Plc
President and CEO, Kari Happonen
Phone: +358 424 2231, mobile phone +358 400 700 761, kari.happonen@ixonos.com.
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