Mekon MBO- Aeronautical Information Systems Division sold to management team to fund XML Publishing growth.

    /24-7PressRelease/ - SURREY, UK, February 15, 2006 - The Management team headed by Andrew Barrett has been running Mekon-AIS for over 3 years and saw this as a great opportunity to take advantage of the company's strength in the market place and further grow its dedicated offerings in the Aeronautical Information Services industry. The new company will continue to grow their own product range, including FrameAPS, apsXML and the AIXM Data Management System, and will still retain its PDToolKit reseller status and continue to service its many clients.

"The MBO gives Mekon the opportunity to take full advantage of the demand for XML publishing software solutions we have been experiencing in Europe, whilst also demonstrating the fundamental principals of our organisation, namely profitable innovation shared with our employees". Julian Murfitt, MD, Mekon Ltd.

Thanks to continued internal and external investment in the product range Mekon-AIS has a unique opportunity to capture new market share and continue to expand its user base domestically, in Europe and around the world. The MBO gives Mekon-AIS Ltd the opportunity to focus fully on those new and existing clients and grow to meet their needs and requirements.

Mekon has been growing its share of the UK XML publishing market over recent months and has successfully positioned itself as the leading authority in the UK for XML publishing solutions. Mekon has contributed to the XML publishing standard 'DITA' (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) via the development of an Adobe FrameMaker

Mekon are XML publishing integration specialists with more than 15 years experience in single-source multi-channel publishing, document workflow design, information architecture, and standards such as ASD S1000D, ATA 2200iSpec, DocBook and DITA. We help organisations leverage the potential of XML for their content creation, review, management and publishing processes. Our systems enable businesses to increase the reuse, accuracy, flexibility and relevance of their content, ensuring greater consumer satisfaction and reduced content generation costs.
www.mekon.com

About Mekon-AIS Ltd
Mekon-AIS are a specialist AIS (Aeronautical Information Services) Company. We have software supply, services, training and maintenance contracts with the Central European AIS Database project which is run by Eurocontrol (as well as various standalone clients and blue chip industry partners).
Mekon-AIS provide software to manage the production of a State's Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) which is the mandated document by which each country exchanges its aviation information, rules and regulations with the outside world. Mekon-AIS also provide a database system and data exchange tools whereby state data and information can be captured, managed, stored and exchanged with other countries.

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