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3rd August 2009

Giunti Labs UK expands its operations

Following its expansion within the UK market in 2008 and its continuing growth in revenue, Giunti Labs has appointed Dan Taylor as its Sales Manager in the UK.

A sales and marketing professional with over 17 years experience in technology-led multi-channel operations, Taylor came to Giunti Labs from PPi Learning Services Ltd, where he had been client director. For some ten years before that he had worked in sales-related roles for Thomson NETg.

Taylor commented: "UK-based companies need to re-invent their leadership to survive the current economic recession and, in particular, the competition coming from the world's emerging economies. One key way to address this issue - and help them develop new skills and competencies rapidly - is to adopt an open and interoperable ecosystem which delivers new generation personal performance support and information access to learners.

"I'm delighted that Giunti Labs, via its various products and research initiatives, is addressing this issue and has a number of solutions for organisations in all sectors of the economy that want to become more efficient and effective in their operations," he added.

Andrea Gentili, Giunti Labs' Chief Sales and Marketing Officer and Managing Director of Giunti Labs UK, commented: "Thanks to our end-to-end offering, clear value proposition and flexible business model, we are experiencing growing interest in our solutions in the UK market. So we expect to continue to grow and invest in the UK market, adding more resources to the existing team before the end of this year."

JJ van Delsen, Giunti Labs' Sales Director in the UK, said: "We're delighted that Giunti Labs' UK-based team is being strengthened by Dan. He has a lot of experience in helping organisations with their blended training initiatives as well as their content management strategy.

"Organisations in all sectors want to save money and resources and we see a significant increase in interest in our solutions. Return on investment in less than one year is a strong argument these days.

"Companies that bring products to market faster and against lower costs will be among the future leaders. Building staff skills and competencies now will enable them to capitalise on the economic upturn."

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About Giunti Labs

Giunti is unique in the international publishing industry.

In 1497, Giunti publishers and typographers in Florence, together with others in Venice, began modern book manufacturing. Over the years Giunti has built a 'historical catalogue' of huge dimensions, through a gradual process of 'fusion' of different publishers, but also through the creation of new brands, including Giunti Labs. Giunti Editore now includes 20 companies in the publishing sector.

Giunti Labs, which has its global headquarters in Italy and offices in London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden) and in Boston (US), provides a wide range of services, in response to any content, learning and knowledge management need, covering:

• Content production

• Research and development

• Technological solutions for content, learning & knowledge management

• Architectural and technological solutions for mobile & wireless

• Training and consulting

Giunti Labs provides the learn eXact® suite, Europe's leading e-learning and mobile learning content management technology. This suite is interoperable with all major vendor-driven and open source LMS and VLE solutions in the market including Plateau, Oracle, SumTotal, Saba, WebCT, Blackboard, Sakai, LRN and Moodle.

Moreover, Giunti Labs does not just adhere to the international standards relating to the LMS/LCMS world, it is one of the organisations that helps to determine and drive these standards: co-writing and developing them. Giunti Labs plays a key role in most of the international institutions for the definition of eLearning specifications (IEEE LTSC, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36, CEN/ISSS WSLT, AICC, IMS, ADL-SCORM and OKI).

Further information from:

Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3489 399127
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405