Bianco Footwear Invests US$91,000 With Geac

Studley, England (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Attention Business Editors

- European Shoe Designer and Retailer Purchases End-To-End PLM
Solution to Support Expansion Strategy

Bianco Footwear, the European designer and retailer of men's and
women's shoes, has invested US$91,000 in an end-to-end Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) software suite from Geac(R) (TSX: GAC,
NASDAQ: GEAC) to help support its rapidly growing retail business
and more effectively handle complex collections. Bianco Footwear has
a three year plan to grow its number of European stores by 160%, to
300 outlets.

Bianco currently is implementing a PLM solution from RunTime,
Geac's specialist division serving the apparel and footwear
industry; it is expected to go live in 2005. Core to the solution is
Geac's QuestACP ( Advanced Collection Planning), QuestPDM (Product
Data Management), Quest Workflow and Quest Integration Engine.
Geac's suite of design software will integrate with Bianco's
existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from Microsoft
Axapta.

Thomas Schultz Petersen, International Product Manager for Bianco
Footwear, said: "Our new Geac PLM software will help us particularly
in our pre-production activities to generate and adhere to new
footwear collections in line with precise and diverse customer
needs. The process of managing collections used to be conducted 'in
our heads' and supported by a manual spreadsheet system. But with
every new market we enter, the complexity of collections grows
exponentially. So now that we're in nine markets and we have 12
collections a year - together with a number of small express drops -
we're now looking forward to visualising and automating this
difficult process with QuestACP."

He continued: "This overall investment will support a critical
part of our philosophy: To create a unique franchise concept within
the field of fashion and shoes. Our shops are designed to be
progressive and forward- thinking - from financial control to the
planning of marketing activities, the management of product ranges,
logistics and shop support. Our software investment is vital to this
end."

Based in Kolding, Denmark, the Bianco Footwear chain was
established in 1987 in Denmark. Ten years later it opened its first
shop outside Denmark. In recent years it has doubled in size every
three years. Now the group has 124 shops in Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
Iceland, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Poland, Russia and Germany. The
company was winner of "The Franchise Company of the Year" in 2004 by
Dansk Franchisegiver Forening and the Danish newspaper "Borsen".

Steen W. Poulsen, International Sales & International Business
Development Manager for Geac RunTime Nordics, said:

"Currently more than 400 of the world's leading apparel and
footwear companies use Geac software to manage their global
operations. Footwear brand companies like Bianco have a huge need to
co-ordinate their complex global design, manufacturing and supply
chain operations and Geac is proving time and time again that it can
deliver a compelling end-to-end solution."

About Geac

Geac (TSX: GAC, NASDAQ: GEAC) is a global enterprise software
company that provides best-in-class technology products and services
to help organizations do more with less in an increasingly
competitive environment, amidst growing regulatory pressure, and in
response to other business issues confronting the CFO. Geac RunTime,
which has hundreds of customers in the fashion and apparel industry,
develops and sells software for the design and pre-production phases
of the manufacturing process, product data management, customer
relationship management and sales force automation www
.runtime.geac.com Corporate information is available at
http://www.geac.com or through e-mail at info(at)geac.com.

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For further information: Media Contacts: Alex Bell, Citigate Dewe
Rogerson, +44-(0)1604-232223, [email protected];
Richard Moore, Geac, +44-(0)-1527-496189, [email protected]

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