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StarCite Announces Record Q4 Bookings and Customer Program Expansions in 2009
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New and Expanded Corporate Contracts Drive High Quality Meetings Through StarCite’s Industry-Leading Online Marketplace
PHILADELPHIA, PA – March 30, 2010 – StarCite, Inc., the leading provider of Web-based solutions to strategically manage corporate meetings and events, today announced record fourth quarter bookings, even as the travel industry continued to deal with the effects of global recession. During 2009, StarCite gained an impressive array of new customers and achieved a record year for customer program expansions as companies brought more meetings spend under management – often on a global basis -- including CA, Inc., Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, one of the world’s largest energy/petrochemical corporations and three more Fortune 500 corporations in the financial and pharmaceutical sectors.
StarCite is the dominant market leader in meetings technology supporting strategic meetings management programs. StarCite’s ongoing subscribers include a majority of the top 100 companies with the largest travel budgets named by Business Travel News. Additionally, a substantial number of Fortune 500 companies utilize StarCite as their primary meetings management solution, including:
• Nine of the ten largest pharmaceutical companies;
• Eight of the ten largest technology companies; and
• Eight of the ten largest financial/insurance services companies
“When the going got tough, companies turned to StarCite to implement and enhance strategic meetings management programs at a record pace as they looked to save money and maximize every dollar they spent on meetings and events,” said Greg Dukat, chief executive officer, StarCite. “As a result, we’re kicking off 2010 with great momentum and continuing to expand our global customer base. Companies increasingly recognize the opportunity to consolidate their spending, control costs, and maintain a robust and strategic meetings program. As these customers join our marketplace, suppliers are benefitting in turn from an increasing flow of high-quality leads that translate directly into more group business.”
Highlighting the central role the StarCite platform plays in working with leading companies in strategic meetings management, StarCite clients represent approximately 70 percent of the “Best Meeting Practitioners” named by Business Travel News and more than half of the “Top 20 Industry Changemakers” recently published by Corporate Meetings & Incentives.
StarCite demonstrated solid momentum on the supplier side of the meetings industry by renewing key relationships with Hilton Worldwide, Hyatt Hotels, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, Marriott International Inc., and other leading hotel companies.
StarCite’s supplier partnerships underscore and solidify the understanding of the hotel community that StarCite is committed to driving high quality RFPs with very high conversion rates that amount to real business for them. This way, hotels can have their most talented sales people working on the best leads that truly convert and contribute to revenue. Further, StarCite launched supplier reporting capabilities that assist hotels in analyzing their market share of RFPs and response rates.
“Although it was a hard year for the travel industry, it was a critical time for the practice of strategic meetings management, which saw great leaps in terms of awareness and implementation around the world,” Dukat added. “As the year progresses, we are focused on furthering our vision for meetings management by helping more companies maximize their meetings spend and continuing to build on a marketplace where buyers and suppliers can easily connect and do business in an efficient and mutually beneficial fashion.”
Anthem Venture ist ein Wagnisfinanzierer wie Internet Capital auch, allerdings nicht börsennotiert und eher als Erstinvestor tätig, während Internet Capital erst etwas später in neue Unternehmen einsteigt.
Unter dieser Überschrift kann man aus Euro am Sonntag vom letzten Sonntag unter anderem lesen:
"Die Technologieindustrie, seit über einem halben Jahrhundert Motor für Erneuerungen und Wohlstandzuwachs in den USA, erholt sich immer besser von der Rezession. Die Unternehmensgewinne legen zu, und der Bedarf an qualifizierten Mitarbeitern steigt. In dieser Woche meldete Apple einen Gewinnsprung von 90% für das abgelaufene Geschäftsjahr. Bereits in der vergangenen Woche gab der Internetriese Google einen Gewinnschub von 37% für das erste Quartal bekannt. Chiphersteller AMD meldete eine Steigerung der Erlöse um 34%. Und Branchenprimus Intel verkündete einen Quartalsgewinn, der sich dank einer Absatzsteigerung von 44% fast vervierfachte."
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April 7th, 2010 by Inderpal Singh Leave a reply » .Since 2006, more than 20 per cent of top-tier US consumer products (CP) companies including Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Sara Lee and Chiquita have signed procurement outsourcing agreements in an effort to reduce indirect costs, drive bottom line improvements or reinvest to drive growth, it has been claimed.
Procurement outsourcing firm ICG Commerce, which compiled the estimate, predicts that adoption of procurement outsourcing is poised to accelerate in 2010.
“Based on increased pressure to quickly meet changing business demands, CP companies continue to be the leading adopters of procurement outsourcing,” said Rachael Stormonth, senior vice-president at Nelson-Hall, a leading Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) research firm.
“Companies such as Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Sara Lee and Chiquita are using procurement outsourcing to reduce non-core costs and increase the effectiveness of their procurement function.”
“In 2010, the ability to drive earnings per share improvements continues to be a challenge with a short list of solutions,” added Jon Feeney, managing director research, Consumer Research Group, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC.
“Those companies who focus aggressively on productivity will be most successful. I have seen a number of CP companies implementing strategies involving procurement outsourcing to improve productivity and reduce costs and expect this trend to continue.”
According to ICG, for most of 2009, consumer products leaders reduced costs through traditional one-time measures such as employee layoffs, plant closings and product price cuts. In 2010, even with economic conditions stabilising, companies are looking for new ways to fund innovation and growth.
“CP executives’ primary focus has traditionally centred around the consumer-facing side of the business, and especially of late, understanding changing consumer behaviors with the downturn,” said Manly Molpus, a member of ICG Commerce’s CP Executive Advisory Board.
“More recently, leaders are stepping back to look at the overall business from top to bottom, with a focus on costs too — and procurement outsourcing represents an important opportunity to improve operations and optimize spending.”
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InvestorForce Selected by Towers Watson for Advanced Performance Reporting Solutions
On Monday May 3, 2010, 9:18 am
WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InvestorForce, Inc., a leading software provider of web-based reporting and analytical tools for institutional investment consultants and investors, is pleased to announce an agreement with global professional services firm Towers Watson (NYSE, NASDAQ: TW - News) to provide its U.S. subsidiary, Towers Watson Investment Services, Inc., with the advanced services of InvestorForce’s Performance Reporting Network.
Towers Watson, one of the world’s largest global institutional investment consulting companies, will use InvestorForce’s Performance Reporting Network to help automate its reporting and performance measurement processes. The firm will gain access to a rich suite of analytics and to critical daily portfolio information through InvestorForce’s Performance Measurement, Investment Reporting, and Insight services.
“InvestorForce’s fully integrated, web-based platform gives us the advanced performance measurement capabilities we need to streamline our reporting processes globally,” said Carl Hess, global head of investment at Towers Watson. “We continually strive to provide our clients with timely, insightful reporting. InvestorForce offers us a compelling mix of data and analytics features, accelerating the turnaround time for client reporting.”
“We are thrilled to welcome Towers Watson, one of the global leaders in institutional investment consulting, as a client,’’ said Jim Morrissey, CEO of Wayne, PA-based InvestorForce. “InvestorForce is dedicated to driving progress and improved client relationships for Towers Watson by continuing to build upon our state of the art, next generation reporting and business management platform.”
With the addition of Towers Watson to InvestorForce’s client base, the company now has over $4 trillion in combined assets managed through its platform.
About Towers Watson
Towers Watson (NYSE, NASDAQ: TW - News) is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management. The company offers solutions in the areas of employee benefits, talent management, rewards, and risk and capital management. Towers Watson has 14,000 associates around the world and is located on the web at http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=sma...
About InvestorForce, Inc.
Wayne, PA-based InvestorForce is the premier provider of performance reporting solutions, with products to address the needs of consultants, plan sponsors and their money managers. InvestorForce enables the institutional investment community to manage investment decisions and exposure more effectively by providing real-time transparency and analysis.
With majority ownership and backing from Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE - News), InvestorForce has successfully brought the most advanced, SaaS-based, performance reporting platform to the institutional investment community. For more information please visit http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=sma...
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Meine Schätzungen des Wertes der Beteiligungen 10.05.10 21:37 #4675 auf der Basis der Werte in #4672:
76% of ICGCommerce = 225 million
33% of Metastorm = 71 million
36% of Starcite = 65 million
31% of Freeborders = 65 million
50% of Channelintelligence = 65 million
36% of Whitefence = 35 million
89% of Govdelivery = 20 million
81% of Investoreforce 10 million
25% of Acquirgy = 5 million
30% of Cickequations = 4 million
26% of Seapass = 4 million
Aditional cash/securities = 80 million
Fall sich bei den Werten im Laufe von 2010 etwas tut, rechne ich mit erheblichen Wertsteigerungen. Bei einem Ipo ode einen Verkauf könnten z.B die 76% an ICGCommerce auch auf 300 bis 350 Millonen steigen oder die 33% an Metastorm von 71 Millionen auf 100 Millionen.
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Internet Capital hält inzwischen 76% am weltweit größten Pure Play in diesem Sektor: ICGCommerce.
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BLAIR WILLIAM & CO/I... 3/31/2010 617,819 617,819 New $6,036
Denn William Blair ist die Investmentbank schlechthin auf diesem Sektor.
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FMR LLC
12/31/2009 4,358,380 1,850 0.04% $42,581
9. Fidelity
Rank ’08: 8
U.S Private-Client Assets: $109 bil
Minimum Account: $1 mil
Median Account: N.A.
Private-Client Managers: 400
Clients Per Manager: N.A.
U.S. Private-Banking Offices: 131
Specialties: Investment products and plan¬ning, brokerage, trust, charitable services, family office services and cash management.
Website: www.fidelity.com
Tel: 800-Fidelity
e-mail: fidelitycorporateaffairs@fmr.com
Internet Capital hält 76% am weltweit größten Pure Play auf dem Gebiet des Procurement Outsourcing.