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Gladstone PLC
23 September 2009
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Press Release
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23 September 2009
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Gladstone plc
('Gladstone' or 'the Company')
New product launch - Plus2 Visual Analytics™
Gladstone plc (AIM: GLD.L), the leading provider of software solutions and services to the Health & Leisure and Education markets, is delighted to announce that it has launched Gladstone Plus2 Visual Analytics™, a new suite of management reporting and analysis software to support its flagship membership management solution, Plus2TM.
A growing number of Gladstone's clients are now using this new software solution in conjunction with Plus2. With Visual Analytics™, leisure centres and gym owners and operators can better analyse and track their key business metrics relating to club membership, pay-as-you-go attendance, revenue and utilisation to ensure they drive maximum value and efficiency from their operations.
Gerry Campbell, General Manager for South Lanarkshire Leisure, which manages and operates the Sports and Recreation Services on behalf of South Lanarkshire Council, Scotland, joins a number of clients taking advantage of the Gladstone Plus2 Visual Analytics™ software. Mr Campbell commented: 'Visual Analytics ensures we now have real-time insight on how our business is performing to assist our teams make fast and accurate decisions from a constantly changing and vast quantity of customers and facilities data.'
Dr. Said Ziai, Chairman and CEO of Gladstone plc, added: 'Over the past twelve months, we have worked very closely with a number of our key clients to better understand their current and future management information and business decision-making needs. It was evident that an intuitive business tool was needed to add material and immediate value to our clients' key stakeholders including the board of directors, the senior management team, department managers and government agencies.
'I am confident that Visual Analytics™ can meet their requirements and provide our clients with a greater capability to monitor their customer and facility usage. This dynamic new solution builds upon Gladstone's ongoing investment in Research & Development to create substantial competitive advantages for our clients, enhancing their return on investment and improving customer satisfaction levels.'
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For further information, please contact:
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Financial Adviser and Nominated Adviser to Gladstone:
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Grant Thornton UK LLP
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Gerry Beaney
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 7728 2589
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David Hignell
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 5100
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Broker to Gladstone
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Fairfax I.S. PLC
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Simon Bennett
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 7598 5368
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Notes to Editors
Gladstone plc's innovative software products and services, currently targeted at the global health and leisure and education markets, are used daily by thousands of front line staff, managers, end users and students.
Gladstone Health and Leisure is the market leader in the provision of member relationship management solutions for a wide range of health and leisure organisations including trusts, leisure centres, and major private leisure chains and is established as the de facto standard for UK local authorities. The Company enables all its clients in both the public and private sectors to utilise central database facilities for central and cross-site on-line bookings, Customer Relationship Management ('CRM') and membership management, centralisation of administration, marketing and reporting.
The Company also provides a wide range of integrated systems and software-based solutions for the rapidly expanding Education Facilities and Activities Management Solutions market across the entire spectrum of educational establishments and is a key supplier to the UK Government's Building Schools for the Future ('BSF') initiative.
Gladstone is focused on extending its solutions capabilities, which enable its clients to maximise resource usage, retain customers and improve operational performance, thereby making cost efficiencies, into new vertical and geographic markets aligned with its growth strategy.
The Company's current solutions include the comprehensive Plus2TM product suite which incorporates advanced functionality including web-based remote booking, advanced analysis and the use of kiosks, as well as Gladstone OnRecordTM which serves the education industry with e-registration, biometric and smart card recognition, cashless payment systems, extensive information portals, libraries usage and access control.
Based in Oxfordshire, the Company has sales offices in Glasgow, Dublin (Ireland) and Sydney (Australia), in addition to development facilities in Sonderborg (Denmark) and Karachi (Pakistan).
For further information, visit www.gladstoneplc.com
About Gladstone's Visual Analytics™
This unique software solution enables Gladstone clients to dynamically interrogate their business data from Plus2. This is achieved by combining a specially designed Plus2 Reporting Data Layer, developed by Gladstone and a groundbreaking analytical tool from Tableau™, one of the world's leading business intelligence software providers.
With Gladstone's Visual Analytics™, clients can quickly interrogate the Plus2 database to create intuitive yet powerful reports and interactive charts and dashboards from a selection of pre-formatted sample workbooks. Within minutes users can analyse and track key business metrics relating to membership, attendance, revenue and utilisation to ensure they drive maximum value and efficiency from their operations. This will enable Gladstone clients to analyse a number of key business metrics including; membership, bookings and finance.
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