StoreFront E-Business Solutions: Growth, Diversification, Leadership
Kansas City, KS (February 15, 2005) – LaGarde reported its second consecutive year of profitability today, solidifying its position as a leading independent provider of ecommerce solutions to all segments of the market. While many of its competitors continue to be consolidated out of the market in a sea of red ink, LaGarde’s profitable growth accelerated in 2005.
Much of LaGarde’s growth came from significant new inroads into the mid and enterprise markets with its StoreFront e-business platform during 2004. In addition to attracting banner clients such as Florsheim Shoes, Schwan’s Fine Foods, Russell Athletics, Segway, KC Masterpiece and others to the StoreFront platform, LaGarde also achieved a more than 50% growth in revenue for its 50 person, Kansas City-area company. “We continue to be extremely pleased with the growth and strategic position of our company and platform” said Bob LaGarde, founder and CEO of LaGarde. “We have clearly emerged as a leading single source solution for small, medium and enterprise companies who want to engage in serious business on the internet” said LaGarde.
LaGarde’s other major source of growth for the year came from its emergence as a true single-vendor solution for all segments. LaGarde became the first e-business provider to offer its own ecommerce software complimented with optional hosting, payment processing, systems integration and development, marketing services and more.
According to Andrew Bartels, head of Forrester Research’s Ecommerce Practice, companies engaging in ecommerce “would like to have a better balance between cost and control.” LaGarde’s focus on extensibility, flexibility and scalability, complimented by a full solutions approach to its client base has proven to be a successful answer to those companies who are serious about ecommerce and who are seeking a online model that more closely aligns with their core business operations.
Complimenting the company’s broad market strength is its interoperability and integration with other business platforms such as Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft Retail Management System, RetailPro, ACC PAC, MAS 90, and other business platforms. “We did a very comprehensive review of available solutions for integrated e-business,” says Paul Duncan, Vice-President of Development for Retail Dimensions Inc, a value-added product and service provider to the retail industry. “We found LaGarde’s StoreFront platform to be exceptional in terms of the robustness of their .NET technology, the extensibility of the product and the source code access to further extend and customize the solution.” Additionally, LaGarde’s offer of a full scope of essential services to deliver a complete turn-key solution makes delivering an integrated ecommerce operation easier. “We have been extremely impressed with all of their capabilities across the board,” said Duncan.
“For 2005, we will be further focusing on delivering hosted, subscription based solutions built on our StoreFront platform and oriented toward the smaller end of the market” said LaGarde. We will also continue to invest in extending the platform toward more and more complete and robust integration with other key business operations on the accounting, point of sale and supply chain side of the business,” said LaGarde.
LaGarde Contact:
Roxanne Petter, Media Relations
913-489-0890
media@lagarde.com
About LaGarde®: Founded in 1996, LaGarde is a leading global provider of e-business solutions. LaGarde’s StoreFront software products and services offer robust, feature-rich solutions to develop and maintain e-business sites that deliver high-end functionality at an affordable price point. LaGarde offers advanced e-business solutions, easy shopping cart services, e-commerce software for developers, and enterprise e-commerce solutions for high volume sellers. StoreFront powers nearly 50,000 Web stores in over 70 countries around the world. For more information, visit www.StoreFront.net or call 800-943-5823.
LaGarde, StoreFront, BizPlaces and StoreFront Now are either registered trademarks or trademarks of LaGarde Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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