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North West Fashion Manufacturers Place Twin IT Contracts


Manchester, UK 4th May 2005

Two leading fashion manufacturers have placed IT contracts with leading Manchester based specialist IT systems vendor, XeBusiness, for integrated CRM, Procurement and Distribution modules within its flagship business management and management information system, Xe-ERP2.

Gemini Fashions and sister company Supreme Fashions will implement the XeBusiness systems at their offices in Manchester and Preston to streamline their sales order and contract management, distribution and global sourcing operations.


Commenting on the award of the implementation contracts, Munaf Ahmed, Director of Gemini Fashions commented:

"We awarded these contracts to XeBusiness quite simply because of the understanding they demonstrated of our operational requirements and the ability of their system to be quickly customised to exactly what we required. In fact, they completed the additional development work we required before we placed the contract with them."

In response, David Cullis, Chief Executive of XeBusiness said:

"Gemini and Supreme represent the new wave of fast moving apparel and textile manufacturers with their finger on the pulse of what is happening on the high street, fashion-wise. To win this contract, we had to prove that XeBusiness could move equally quickly in demonstrating that our product Xe-ERP2 could deal with the flexibility, accuracy and quick response their operations demand."


About Gemini and Supreme Fashions

Based in Manchester and Preston, both these companies operate successfully in the highly competitive menswear and ladieswear fashion segments in the UK. Major retail customers include Newlook, Miss Selfridge, Etam, Select and C & A (Europe). Key to their success is quality products priced competitively and supplied on time to their retail customers.

About XeBusiness

XeBusiness supplies computer based supply chain solutions for quick response and cost reduction - simply and economically. The company is a leading business to business provider of supply chain solutions to the textile and apparel sector that allow client companies to automate their in-house functional processes and to integrate these with systems in use at their customers, suppliers and business partners to improve service levels and reduce operating cost.

About Xe-ERP2

Xe-ERP2 is a world-class specialist management information and business management system for garment, footwear, soft goods and household textile suppliers operating in the retail and corporate workwear supply chains.

The system is particularly suited to SME's (Small to Medium Sized Enterprises) given its low cost of ownership and ease and speed of implementation. All aspects of CRM, Distribution, Sourcing and Manufacturing operations are covered by the system taking account of the specialist requirements of companies operating in the Textile sector.

For further information, please contact:

David Cullis at XeBusiness Ltd

tel: 0161 869 0430 or

email: david.cullis@xebusiness.com

Munaf Ahmed at Gemini Fashions

tel: 0161 228 7626

email: Munaf@gemini-uk.com