GROUPE AGI - ALREADY 5 YEARS OLD

In 1995, Guy Boisvert was an information technology consultant, but then the firm for which he worked was sold. Like most of his colleagues, he found himself without a job but certainly not without resources, as described in the French language magazine PME (April 2000 edition).

In the past, he had worked on the design and marketing of an absentee management software package, and in 1996 he decided to make use of his experience to design a similar type of software to meet CSST standards. He founded Groupe AGI (the French acronym of Administration, Gestion, Informatique, or Administration, Management and Computing in English), and set up shop in Québec City with his partner Patrick Brassard, who had 14 years of experience in software consulting and design. In 1997, a third shareholder, Richard Jobin, joined the firm. Mr. Jobin was president and founder of Groupe AST, the largest occupational health and safety agent in Québec.

Since it was created, Groupe AGI's turnover has grown by more than 200%, and the organization now has 20 employees. It has also expanded physically, and has offices in downtown Montreal, with its two associate companies Groupe AST and Solutions Optimisst, as well as in Ontario, in addition to its original premises in Québec City's Technology Park.

A WORD FROM A PRESIDENT

It has already been five years since the company was launched. Since then, we have achieved some wonderful things and can truly say "we've made a lot of progress in a very short period." All this would have been impossible without you, our customers and partners, who have helped our company progress and be successful. Your comments on and participation in our various activities have enabled us to exceed our limits and develop our product.

Our partners, Groupe AST and IBR, have also demonstrated the same level of confidence in developing the SISST and OSHIMS applications, thus allowing us to develop and market our own product. Our accounting solutions partners, Accpac, Avantage, Fortune 1000 and Virtuo, provide us with access to a huge network of customers and distributors, and collaborate extensively in the process of integrating ABAK with their products. Since 1998, our distributors have made a significant contribution to the development of our software. They have worked hard to make ABAK successful, investing time and energy to achieve our objectives.

Thanks to them, ABAK is now available over a larger territory (Canada and the USA), thus allowing the product to develop more quickly. Nor must we forget the efforts of our professionals, who use the skills and invest the energy required to offer high quality services and software. I would like to extend my special thanks to our first customers, the ones who trusted us in the very early days: Pyroval, Transport Asselin, Gestion Remabec, Rexfor, Bédard Guilbault (the first Abak), Domtar. In closing, I hope we can continue to work with our customers, partners and distributors towards the same goal of offering quality software and services.

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