Board Appointment  [Posted 31st July, 2009]

The Board of Electronic Data Processing PLC (EDP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Heller, MA ACA, as a non-executive director with effect from 3 August 2009.
Andrew (age 40) is Managing Director of Bisichi Mining plc, a listed mining company, and a director of various private companies. Andrew qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen.
There are no further disclosures to be made pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13.
EDP separately confirms the appointment of James Storey, ACA, as Company Secretary. James is currently financial controller. James previously held various finance positions with Sun Chemical Group and KPMG.

CHARISMA User Group Date - 17th September 2009  [Posted 31st July, 2009]

Our next CHARISMA User Group meeting is scheduled for Thursday 17th September in Milton Keynes. We will be exploring the new features and functionality in CHARISMA Release 11.0, as well as looking at the exciting eBusiness developments as featured in our recent Software Release Notes newsletter.

To access the Booking Form, please click here.

Tender Offer  [Posted 19th March, 2009]

Proposed return of up to £6 million to Shareholders by way of a Tender Offer and Notice of General Meeting (PDF Document).

WHERE TO FIND HELP IN RESPECT OF THE TENDER OFFER
If you require any assistance please telephone the Shareholder Helpline on the numbers set out below. This helpline is available from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. UK time, Monday to Friday. Shareholder Helpline telephone numbers: 0871 664 0321 (from inside the UK) and +44 20 8639 3399 (from outside the UK). Calls to the 0871 664 0321 number cost 10 pence per minute (including VAT) plus your service providers network extras. Call to the helpline from outside the UK are charged at applicable international rates. Different charges may apply to calls made from mobile telephones and calls may be recorded and monitored randomly for security and training purposes. Please note that for legal reasons the Shareholder Helpline will only be able to provide information in connection with the procedure for tendering your Ordinary Shares and will be unable to give advice on the merits of the Tender Offer or to provide financial, investment or taxation advice.

Form of Proxy   Tender Form

Vecta Helps Orbital Fasteners Increase Market Share  [Posted 12th November, 2008]

Orbital Fasteners, based in Hertfordshire, UK, recently implemented the VECTA Sales Intelligence Solution to improve the operational effectiveness of its sales team. Click here to View the Article.

BML Exhibiting At This Years Fastener Fair Show   [Posted 21st April, 2008]

From the 11th - 12th June, join BML (Office Computers) Ltd - a part of the EDP Group of Companies - as we exhibit on stand F2, at this years Fastener Fair show in Coventry. The Fastener Fair exhibitions are “end to end” shows representing every aspect of the fastener and fixing market. At the show, BML will also be introducing to the public, the new release of the powerful VECTA Sales Intelligence solution.

For more information on the Fastener Show, visit Fastener Fair Exhibitions.

Pre-Registration: Pre-register now for your free visitor badge for Fastener Fair Coventry.
Pre-registered visitors benefit from a free entry pass which will be posted to you, a free copy of the show guide, quick lane entrance and email news alerts updating you before the show!
To pre-register, please click here and follow the instructions.


A CRM Solution Isn't Going To Help Salespeople Sell

In the build up to the show, view our recently published VECTA Sales Intelligence article (644KB) that appeared in the March 2008 issue of Fastener & Fixing Magazine.

For the Vecta website, please visit Vecta.net

EDP Exhibit VECTA At This Years Stationery Office Products Show In London  [Posted 2nd April, 2008]

From the 8-9th April, join us at the Stationery Office Products Show at the Business Design Centre in London. VECTA is a leading supplier of IT software solutions to the Office Product Supplies industry, with clients such as OfficeXpress, Harper Martin and Stat-Plus. Why not visit the VECTA stand and see how the VECTA Sales Intelligence Solution from EDP can increase your sales effectiveness, enabling you to sell more on every call you make.

For more information, visit www.sopx.co.uk

Disposal Of Freehold Property  

On the 15th February, EDP PLC announced that it had exchanged contracts to dispose of its freehold former head office in Sheffield. The consideration for the freehold is £1.35 million. Costs associated with the disposal are estimated to be £20,000. The net sale proceeds will be added to existing cash resources (£6.0 million). The property had a net book value of £660,000 at 30 September 2007.

BML (Office Computers) Ltd Move into New Offices   [Posted 17th January, 2008]

BML (Office Computers) Ltd - a part of the EDP Group of Companies - are relocating to new offices within the existing East Grinstead area. This move takes place on the 21st January. Telephone, fax numbers and accounts address remain unchanged. BML's new head office address is:

Garland Court,
Garland Road,
East Grinstead,
West Sussex,
RH19 1DN.

Making Waves - EDP Group Client Seminars for Jan 2008   [Posted 4th December, 2007]

Join us and discover how EDP can help you make waves, by rapidly increasing your sales growth in 2008!

Clients of EDP Group's software application products are invited to join us for seminars in January 2008, at venues held across the country. EDP will be demonstrating the software and infrastructure products now available, resulting from EDP's multi-million pound R&D investment. The seminars are designed to cover important industry trends ranging from software integration through to delivery of web-based services.

We will also be demonstrating our new product - the market leading VECTA CRM solution, used extensively by many leading distribution and wholesale companies. VECTA helps your internal and field-based sales people sell more on every call, improving up-sell or cross-sell opportunities, enabling companies to significantly increase turnover and profit.

EDP Appointment Of Acting Chief Executive      [Posted 21st June, 2007]

The Board of Electronic Data Processing PLC (EDP) today announces that Group Finance Director and Company Secretary, Julian Wassell, has been appointed Acting Chief Executive. This appointment is following the recent sudden death of Richard Jowitt on 23rd May.

Mr Wassell (ACA), 44, was previously Finance Director of WBF Ltd, part of Adare Printing Group plc. He qualified with Ernst & Young.

Michael Heller, Chairman of EDP, said:

"The Board is delighted to appoint Julian as Acting Chief Executive. Having been Finance Director at EDP for ten years he is the perfect candidate to seamlessly take on the role".

EDP Acquire Vecta Software Corporation     

Electronic Data Processing PLC (EDP) announces that on 16 October 2006 it acquired the business and certain assets of Vecta Software Corporation Limited (Vecta), a leading provider of sales intelligence software solutions, based in Oxford.

Consideration is £900,000 payable in cash on completion. The assets acquired include goodwill, all Intellectual Property and trade debtors. Debtors amount to some £110,000.

The Directors expect the acquisition to be earnings neutral in the current financial year and earnings enhancing in the 2007/8 financial year.

Richard J Jowitt, Chief Executive of EDP, said "Vecta brings to EDP a leading edge sales intelligence product set and over two hundred customers, a significant proportion of which are household names. The Vecta product complements EDP's Quantum VS myViewpoint business intelligence product. Vecta addresses a wider market that it will continue to exploit as the integration into the EDP group progresses".

For more information, please contact Julian Wassell, EDP Group Financial Director, on 0114 2621 621 or email EDP Marketing.

www.vecta.net

EDP releases Quantum VS™ EasyPay - Card Payment Processing     

The use of credit, debit or purchase cards is now part of our everyday lives. Increasingly, business customers rely upon the use of cards to pay for goods, whether this be via Tele-Sales, at the Trade Counter, or over the Internet.

EDP PLC is delighted to announce the release of Quantum VS™ EasyPay. Using technology hosted at the Information Technology Solution Centre, EDP can now offer Group application users, the ability to process card payments (Credit/Debit/Purchase cards) through their application.

The Quantum VS™ EasyPay service is able to process:

· Customer present transactions;
  Created at the trade counter

· Customer not present transactions;
  Created via Tele-Sales or from a Quantum VS enabled e-business web site

As a part of the approvals process EDP PLC is now one of only 20 European Payment Service Providers certified to the Visa Account Information Security standard. This is a defined set of security standards and best practices that help to protect the confidentiality, availability and integrity of stored customer account and transaction data. A complete list of participating organizations may be found at: http://www.visaeurope.com/acceptingvisa/pdf/AIS_Certified_Service_Providers.pdf

More information in the form of a Client Service Bulletin will be issued shortly, but if you need more information, please contact Chris Spicer on Tel: 01908 249740 or e-mail Chris Spicer.