Librios Group

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Address:

20 Lochaline Street
London
W6 9SH
UK

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020 8626 1850

Company Overview:

• Librios Ltd was established in 1997 with a customer base in information and reference publishing, providing operational streamlining and increased re-use options from a fully integrated back-office CMS. Customers included: Cassell/Orion; Penguin; A & C Black/Bloomsbury.
• From 2000 this expanded to other sectors in the UK, including: corporate knowledge management and business information (Serco; The Tomorrow Project); direct sales (The Wine Society); arts management (Visiting Arts/British Council); and health information (Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics in Newcastle; National Office of Animal Health; Imperial College/St Mary’s Hospital). It also gained its first customer in the publishing sector in the Netherlands (Het Spectrum).
• In 2007, further expansion of the UK customer-base in reference publishing (HarperCollins) and health information (NHS/National Library of Health Clinical Knowledge Summaries) was been accompanied by discussions with customers in the healthcare sector in Holland and in the publishing sector in the USA, Germany and Spain. The US-based international publishing company F & W Media and the major UK travel information group AA Publishing became clients in 2008. Technical development of social networking capabilities (Ecomotion Ltd, at www.ecomotion.org.uk) linked to knowledge management is opening opportunities in the environmental information and the consumer travel reference sectors.
• The key selling points are the capabilities of the company's generic software’s to reduce operational costs of content development and increase opportunities for content exploitation, in print, online, through community networks and in other media. The company’s business model is information management consultancy followed by licensing of project-specific solutions derived from the core software. Marketing is either directly to customers or through partners. Post-contract, knowledge is transferred as much as possible to partners and customers to minimise Librios’s requirements for configuration, maintenance and support beyond the core software itself. This enables the company management to remain small while partnerships and alliances increase.


Future Activity

Expansion is planned in the Netherlands in the publishing and healthcare sectors, in the USA, Germany and Spain in the publishing sectors, and in the UK in publishing, healthcare, arts administration and environmental information. Growth will be on the basis of partnerships/alliances supported by an active programme of technical R&D. 2008 saw the company's turnover expand by 50% and comparable growth is anticipated in 2009.


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