Zuken wins £150,000 order and becomes Novar's preferred supplier across Europe

September 6, 2001. Zuken has won a £150,000 order for its CR5000 and CADSTAR printed circuit board design solutions in a deal that sees the company become the preferred supplier to the Novar group's building services companies throughout Europe. Novar plc, until recently known as Caradon, is a group of eight European companies with operations in Germany, France, Norway, the UK and Eastern Europe. A strategic review of the engineering environments in each group company led Novar to consolidate around the Zuken solutions.

Commenting on the reasons for his choice, Novar's Engineering Director, Klaus Lehan, said:

"After a thorough review of the options it became clear that Zuken not only offered the lowest cost to change but they demonstrated scalable solutions that could be adapted to meet the differing needs of our various companies. Zuken's solutions are industry leading technology, and were able to provide the commercial flexibility that we need as we acquire companies and further consolidate our engineering environments to maximise productivity."
Novar's Building Services division designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of electronic products including energy management, security, fire detection and building management systems.

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Editors' note:
About Zuken
Zuken is one of the world's leading providers of professional software solutions for the design of PCB/MCM/IC packages and systems. These advanced tool sets facilitate schematic capture, placement, routing and analysis, and manufacture and test. Used by the world's top 30 electronic product manufacturers, the solutions operate under both UNIX and Microsoft Windows. Zuken is the market sector leader in Japan and has offices throughout Europe and the USA. It is a global organisation employing over 1000 people and the company is listed on Level 1 of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

For more information, visit http://www.zuken.com.

Novar plc, previously known as Caradon plc, is an international group listed on the London Stock Exchange whose core activities are intelligent building systems, Idalex aluminium solutions and security printing services. In recent years it has been transformed from a low growth industrial business into an innovative, high growth enterprise with sales growth of 55% to £1,418 million in 2000, operating profit up 37% to £161 million and earnings per share up 19% to 20p. Novar consists of Brand-Rex Ltd., Chloride Safety Systems, Custom Controls, Eltek Fire & Safety Group, Esser GmbH, effeff Alarm GmbH, Gent Services Ltd., MK Electric Ltd., and Novar Controls Corporation.

For more information, visit: http://www.novar.com.