Philips

From 1997 until 2006 our German and Slovak sister companies had a very successful co-operation with Messe Frankfurt for Automechanika-CATpool, a new electronic exhibitor product catalog system, which was distributed on CD-ROM and available on the Internet.

More than 300.000 CD with Automechanika-CATpool were distributed starting in 1998 to visitors of the Automechanika, the world's largest automotive parts and garage exhibition. The idea was to build up an information system essentially identical to today's CATpool but with a much smaller focus limited to the distribution of exhibitor paper catalogs in our e-paper format Elecat and with a product database. This was based on a special version of our Elecat software.

The contract with Messe Frankfurt imposed restrictions on us but fortunately this contract ended in 2006 so that we are now finally free to launch our own CATpool system without being limited by exhibition people and their politics. More details and background information

Since mid 2003 our Slovak sister company has been and still is developing a very comprehensive software system for the head office of the Philips group of companies in Eindhoven in Holland.

Philips uses a special version of Elestore, of Elepub, various other members of EleFamily and also an Internet portal that is essentially based on and mostly identical to EleAIS.

Our software is used by Philips to store, administrate and publish all product numbers of the entire group of companies, that is around one million article numbers with several million attributes and cross-references.

This co-operation has been very successful despite an extremely tight schedule and it still continues.

We are and we will stay independent

Due to these co-operations we could develop the entire EleFamily software products and the portal software without any need for Venture Capital sharks, banks or share holders. We intend to stay independent in any case, not only because most of the money-greedy companies that we saw taking capital during the Internet bubble have gone out of business a long time ago.

Open for partnerships

However, we are, of course, open for new co-operations in the marketing and operation of national and local portal websites under the roof of YellowParts also because we would prefer to concentrate on general concepts and software development and to delegate local marketing, operation and customer support to local partners who know their markets and the mentality of their local customers. In our eyes all business is local — even in these Internet times.