GATEline AB and Lewel Group to cooperate

Fri 07 Oct 2011

Press Release

Free for publication 7.10.2011 at 12.00

GATEline AB and Lewel Group to cooperate

GATEline AB and Lewel Group Finland Oy have signed a partner agreement where Lewel Group will work as the first contact for customers in Finland.

GATEline is established as the leading distributor of software and related services for electronic design in the Nordic market.

GATEline has appointed Lewel Group as representative for the Finnish market and to work with the software products that GATEline is distributing in Finland such as Cadence® Allegro® PCB Design and Cadence® OrCAD® PCB Design series of products from Cadence Design Systems, Inc and PLM systems from Omnify Software. Lewel Group will handle first-line technical support and customer training and also provide design services using Cadence design tools.

“We are very pleased to be able to improve our service even more for all our customers in Finland by this partnership. They will now have access to a local company that is represented in several places in Finland; Oulu, Kuopio and Espoo. With high technical competence Lewel Group is ready to serve Finnish customers with product information, first-line support and training” saidJan Lindholm(CEO) at GATEline.

“This representative agreement with GATEline strengthens significantly cooperation with our existing and new Finnish customers. By providing our customers local technical support and training for Cadence and Omnify softwares, Lewel Group customers will improve their design quality and ensure time-to-market. Furthermore Lewel Group is able to provide design services for customers by using Cadence design tools. ” said Jukka Kangas (CEO) at Lewel Group.

About Lewel Group: Lewel Group is a product creation house offering services for electronic manufacturing industry. Extensive operational and R&D experience in sectors including telecommunications, industrial electronics and healthcare guarantees fast completion time and high-quality solutions. The company’s assets are its efficiency, reliability and productivity. Employing over 70 people in Hong Kong and Finland, Lewel Group offers the best of both worlds: innovative Nordic design know-how and efficient Asian manufacturing. Further information is available on www.lewelgroup.com

About GATEline: GATEline has since the start in 1984 been established as the leading distributor on the Nordic market of software for electronic design. Very important parts of this are the services we are offering like training, technical support and design libraries. We are a Cadence Channel Partner and also representing other world leading suppliers like Omnify Software Inc and Aldec Inc. Further information is available on www.gateline.se

For more information

Lewel Group Finland Oy, Jukka Kangas, CEO, tel. +358 46 851 0208, jukka.kangas@lewelgroup.com

GATEline AB, Jan Lindholm, CEO, tel. +46 8 778 4440, jan.lindholm@gateline.se