Press Release
November 2008
Contact:
Joachim Christ
 06151 / 9287 360
FAX 06151 / 9287 326
joachim.christ@prostep.com
PROSTEP AG Celebrates
15th Anniversary
Darmstadt, November 2008 – Darmstadt-headquartered PROSTEP
AG, Germany’s leading specialist for product data and process
integration, will soon be celebrating its 15th anniversary. Over the
years, the company, which provides business management
services and engineering solutions, has become a recognized
partner to companies in the automotive industry and its component
suppliers, the aerospace industry, the shipbuilding and marine
engineering industries, the electrical/electronic industry and other
branches of manufacturing industry. Today, PROSTEP provides
leading companies in these industries with support in the form of
services and innovative software solutions, helping them design
and optimize their development processes and implement product
lifecycle management (PLM) concepts.
Over the past few years, PROSTEP has continued to grow and
currently employs a staff of over 250 people at the company
headquarters in Darmstadt and at branch offices at key customer
locations. The company will generate revenues of approximately
28 million euros in the current business year, which means that
revenues have doubled within a period of just five years. More than
a third of the PROSTEP Group’s total revenues is now generated
by the aerospace industry and branches of industry other than the
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Group’s traditional clientele in the automotive industry and its
component suppliers.
“Our growth is the result of turning our focus to providing services
and solutions, expanding the range of solutions we offer and
turning to new industries”, states Dr. Bernd Pätzold, President &
CEO of PROSTEP AG. “An important factor in our success is our
flat organizational structure, which allows us to respond quickly to
our customers’ needs. The great challenge for the future will be
preserving the company’s agility and spontaneity and thus its
customer orientation despite the company’s rapid growth and its
current size.”
PROSTEP AG was founded in November 1993 under the name
ProSTEP Produktdatentechnologie GmbH and its mission was to
provide the member companies of the ProSTEP Association with
support regarding implementation of the STEP standard. Once the
standardization effort was brought to a successful conclusion, the
association and the company freed themselves to a certain extent
from their symbiotic relationship and began to operate more
independently. The private limited company (GmbH), which
changed its corporate form to that of a joint stock company (AG) at
the end of 2001, has developed into an internationally recognized
PLM integration specialist who provides customers with support
relating to the integration of their product data and IT systems and
the harmonization of their collaboration processes in the form of
services and company-own software solutions. Renowned
companies such as Airbus, BMW Group, Bosch, Brose, Conti
Delphi, EADS, Opel, Renault, Valeo and ZF currently deploy
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PROSTEP’s OpenSOLUTION family of products as their
enterprise-wide standard.
About PROSTEP AG
PROSTEP AG is recognized as the leading PLM integration specialist in the area of product
data integration. The company offers customers from the aerospace, automotive,
shipbuilding and mechanical engineering industries – including EADS/AIRBUS, BMW,
Volkswagen, Daimler – integration solutions for CAD, PDM and supplier communication,
thus making e-engineering a reality.
The PROSTEP Group has a current headcount of more than 250 in Germany, France and
the USA. It posted revenues of € 25 million in fiscal 2007. In addition to its headquarters in
Darmstadt, PROSTEP also maintains branch offices in Berlin, Bexbach, Hamburg,
Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart, Wolfsburg and Wuppertal, as well as Lyon (France) and Troy
(Michigan).
All press releases are available for downloading from the following
website: http://www.prostep.com/mn/press/
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