Zuken Buys Redac
New Company Dominates Worldwide PCB/MCM CAD Market

Zuken Incorporated, Asia's #1 PCB/MCM CAD/CAM supplier bought Redac from
Racal Electronics Plc on June 8, creating the world's largest and
strongest PCB/MCM CAD/CAM company; Zuken-Redac. According to Dataquest,
the company now combines to hold a 17.3% share of the PCB CAD market
worldwide. This is good news for Redac users because Zuken plans to
continue developing and marketing Redac's line of PCB CAD products. In
fact, Zuken-Redac users will enjoy added value as Zuken's well regarded
CAM and Assembly products and analog design tools are integrated with
Redac's offerings. In turn, Zuken will benefit from Redac's world class
gridless router, thermal analysis and EMC Advisor technologies.

There are no plans for layoffs. One of the strengths of this acquisition is
that Redac is geographically strong where Zuken isn't, and vice versa. In
Asia, where 51% of the world's circuit boards are designed, Zuken is twice
as large as its nearest competitor. Redac has long been the dominant
supplier in Europe and has a much larger presence in the U.S. Combined,
the two will now have the muscle to become even stronger in North America
where the company sees enormous potential. The announcement comes on the
heels of key Redac design wins including the Electronics Division of Ford
Motor Company in the U.S. and Wandel & Golterman, a leading supplier of
communications test systems in Germany.

Over 200 R&D Engineers

The company now boasts more than 200 R&D engineers focused on PC board CAD
and a total of over 750 personnel worldwide. This enormous strength will
benefit Zuken-Redac customers who will enjoy best in class products that
will evolve to combine the premier technology from the strongest design
team in the world.
Importantly, Redac's service and support personnel will remain with the
company to continue the high level of support to which Redac customers are
accustomed. The sale does not affect the rollout of the new CADSTAR for
Windows product which is proceeding at full speed.

Zuken-Redac
238 Littleton Rd
Westford, MA 01886

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