CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 January 2009
Implementation Investments
Catalog Data Solutions Announces Over 40% Growth in 2008
Catalog Data Solutions (CDS) announced that its 2008 revenue increased by 42% over 2007.
Some of our new customers added in 2008 include Anvil International, aMsp (All Metric Small Parts), AST Bearings, Aviation Metals, B & B Manufacturing, Boston Gear, California Caster, Caster Concepts, ControlAir, EDrive Design, Fibergrate Composite Structures, Gates Power Transmission, General Bearing, KZValve, PIC Design, Plastic Products, Standard Lifters, Hi-Plains Filtration, Tompkins Industries, Altra Industrial Motion including, Warner Electric, Boston Gear, Formsprag, and TB Woods in conjunction with CDS partner i-Mark and Thermaco-Big Dipper and Charlotte Pipe in conjunction CDS partner NETworks Marketing Group. In addition the company continued to expand the content available on its new free CAD model search engine http://www.3DModelSpace.com.
As Chris Viray of StrataLight said, “Online CAD models sometimes dictate which vendor I choose. If I am looking at two vendors, and one has online CAD models it makes it much, much easier for me to implement their part into my assembly.”
"Our continued growth even during a recession underlines that manufacturers are moving their marketing spend online," said John Major, CEO, Catalog Data Solutions. "Almost all design engineers now search for parts online – whether they are looking for new parts, spare parts or CAD models our products save them valuable design time and make it easier for industrial suppliers’ products to be selected.
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