January, 2003. MICE Technical Graphics Limited has become Zuken’s European Distributor for Q3 2002. They achieved the highest sales in the region for the CADSTAR printed circuit board design solution.

Commenting on the award, Alan Hall, CADSTAR Sales, said: “Having sold over fifty entry level Bronze licenses this quarter it is not difficult to see that offering exceptional price-performance delivers its own rewards in this competitive market. With advanced productivity tools, like signal integrity analysis and Rules by Area routing for BGA designs, CADSTAR is clearly the leading desktop solution”. He added that MICE Technical Graphics’ dedicated product team kept everyone focused on the sales and support tasks in hand.

Jeroen Leinders, Zuken’s European CADSTAR Distribution Manager commented: “MICE Technical Graphics has been repeatedly successful having added this award to that of European CADSTAR Distributor of the year 2001-2002.”

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Editors' note:
About MICE Technical Graphics
MICE Technical Graphics have been a Zuken partner for over 20 years. The company was the first Distributor ever to be appointed and have therefore contributed sales of every version of CADSTAR since it's introduction. Other products also distributed by the company include Autodesk’s Inventor Series and the HP/Compaq line of workstations and plotters.
For more information visit http://www.techgraf.co.uk.
MICE Technical Graphics is part of the MICE Group plc. For more information visit http://www.micegroup.com

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