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Sweco chosen as GIT partner for Posten(Cision (English) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Sweco chosen as GIT partner for Posten Posten, the Swedish Postal Service, is investing ambitiously to develop ways of using geographical information in its operations and has chosen Sweco as its partner in this effort, awarding Sweco a contract worth nearly EUR 710,000. In the future postal operations will be increasingly supported by an advanced geographic IT environment that is used in everything from marketing and production to delivery and follow-up. ?We need a strong partner, and Sweco has shown a genuine interest in building up Posten?s knowledge and use of geographic IT,? according to Posten?s project manager Lennart Widelund. ?Many organisations are discovering that it is possible to both improve their performance and realize significant financial gains by structuring and visualising information with the help of geographic IT. In many cases, the use of GIT can also create major environmental benefits,? says Eva Nygren, President of Sweco Sweden Sweco?s tasks will be to develop, implement, manage, maintain and support Posten?s GIT environment. Sweco?s geographic IT operations have grown dramatically in recent years, above all through a number of new and large-scale contracts for the energy, forestry industry and the public sectors. GIT functions currently used by Posten include systems/applications for route planning, visualisation of customer and market analyses, map presentations on the website posten.se and post code assignment. For further information please contact: Mats Dahl, Assignment Manager, Sweco Position, + 46 8-695 65 46, [email protected] Jan Zakariasson, President, Sweco Position, +46 8-695 63 22, [email protected] Sweco is a provider of international consulting engineering services with combined expertise in engineering, environmental technology and architecture. The Group has annual sales of approximately SEK 4.6 billion and 5,500 employees in ten countries. The company has projects currently underway in some 80 countries worldwide. Sweco is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB. The information contained herein may be subject to the disclosure requirements in the Swedish Securities Exchange and Clearing Operations Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. This information was brought to you by Cision http://www.cisionwire.comThe following files are available for download:http://wpy.waymaker.net/client/waymaker1/WOLReleaseFile.aspx?id=1068437 &fn=wkr0003.pdf pdf-version Copyright ? 2009 Cision. All Rights Reserved. |