About Lectra:
Lectra is the world leader in integrated technology solutions that automate, streamline, and accelerate product design, development, and manufacturing processes for industries using soft materials. Lectra develops the most advanced specialised software and cutting systems and provides associated services to a broad array of markets including fashion (apparel, accessories, footwear), automotive (car seats and interiors, airbags), furniture, as well as a wide variety of other market sectors, such as the aeronautical and marine industries, wind power, personal protective equipment. Lectra serves 20,000 customers in more than 100 countries with 1,550 employees and $297 million in 2007 revenues. The company is listed on Euronext Paris.

Lectra Fashion PLM: The most comprehensive and high-performance solution for the fashion sector
Capitalising on 35 years of international experience within the fashion world, Lectra is the only market player able to propose a technology and services offer created specially for the needs of the industry.

The scale and specialised content of Lectra Fashion PLM make it an unrivalled solution on the market. A real performance accelerator for fashion professionals, Lectra Fashion PLM facilitates the management of individual activities, tasks, and collaborative work throughout the whole product lifecycle—from the designer's first ideas to the finished product, ready for sale.

Lectra Fashion PLM offers a truly collaborative working environment for the design, development, and manufacturing of all fashion products (apparel, footwear, accessories) as well as optimal collection management. It is the only PLM solution to incorporate applications for whole process management—line planning, product design and development, strategic sourcing, workflow management—and renowned state-of-the-art applications for fashion and textile design (Kaledo), pattern-making (Modaris and PGS), virtual 3D prototyping (Modaris 3D Fit), and marker-making (Diamino and MGS).

To ensure the effective implementation of PLM projects, Lectra has more than 100 consultants and project managers in subsidiaries worldwide, with specialist knowledge of professions within the fashion industry and the sector's particular challenges. Each project adapts Lectra Fashion PLM to the individual needs of the customer through a structured and thorough implementation programme taking the constraints of collection management cycles into account.

Easy-to-use and specially developed for the needs of the fashion industry, the Lectra Fashion PLM accelerates the product development process and increases productivity. With this powerful and collaborative solution, Lectra will help its customers reach unprecedented levels of performance.