Kewill
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| Kewill Systems PLC | |
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| Type of Company | public (LSE Techmark: Kewill) |
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| Founded | London (1972) |
| Headquarters | UK, USA |
| Key people | Paul Nichols, CEO Management Team |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Products | Enterprise Software |
| Website | www.kewill.com |
Kewill Systems PLC or simply "Kewill", trades on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KWL). Kewill develops and provisions order-to-delivery software systems for enterprises of all sizes around the world.
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[edit] Logistics specialist
Kewill is recognized for leading products in Order Management, Transportation Management, Supply Chain Execution and International Trade Logistics. The products generally offer high customer value because they are integrated with ordering and shipping software and comply with both industry technical standards and government trade compliance standards, to flow goods across boarders by meeting security and customs requirements.
Kewill's trade solutions enable organizations of all sizes to trade locally, nationally or globally by synchronizing the physical movement of goods via internet-based integration and messaging.
In many cases goods internet orders pull goods straight from factories or transit supply chains enabling organizations to orchestrate the physical movement of goods without touching the goods. This type of virtualization increases productivity and lowers prices.
Kewill transportation solutions typically tie into parcel carriers (DHL, FedEX, UPS) and long haul trucking and container shippers.
[edit] Early period
Kewill, unlike most companies that associated with the Internet frenzy, has been around for well over 30 years. After "Kewill" (Ke and Will name taken from its 2 founders names) was founded in 1972 by Kevin Overstall and William Loeffen - it traded mainly on its reputation in the UK for its Production Planning and Materials Management software. These applications evolved into mid market ERP applications. With the advent of the Internet, Kewill expanded into transportation solutions, and e-Commerce.
[edit] Dot Com period
Under CEO Geoffrey Finlay Ascari, Kewill was repositioned for Internet-based electronic commerce and ERP deemphasized. As glamour built around Internet-capable companies and stock brokers pumped up the stock prices, the market hype drove Kewill to one of the greatest percentage gains of an established business on the London Stock Exchange. However, as investor tastes turned away from Internet / e-Commerce growth stories to conservative profit and reveunue -- Kewill suffered a great fall from grace -- the stock price plunging from 32 pounds to 14 pence during the Dotcom bubble deflation.
[edit] Transistions
After the dot-com period Kewill brought in software industry leadership in Paul Nichols as CEO. Nichol, formerly with both Logica and IBM, rebuilt Kewill with both new senior management and a portfolio of specialist software products enabled for local, and international trade logistics.
[edit] Locations
Kewill headquarters are in Greater Manchester, UK, and US HQ near Boston. Kewill also has main offices in Europe and offshore software development center located in Aurangabad, India. Group financial offices are in Greater London.
