Record month contributes to record quarter for Delcam

The achievement helped the company complete a record quarter to end the year and follows record first half sales by the company in the opening six months of 2007. December 2007's figure beat the monthly sales for December 2006 by more than 30 per cent, with total sales for the final quarter of 2007 seeing an increase of almost 20 per cent compared to the same quarter of 2006. “December is normally Delcam’s best month for software sales. We have achieved record sales in each December for several years so setting another new record is, in itself, pleasing rather than surprising,” commented managing director Hugh Humphreys (pictured). “However, to beat the previous December’s results by such a large percentage is a remarkable achievement and one of which everyone associated with Delcam can be very proud.” “In our previous announcements, we have detailed the effects on our sales throughout this year of the weakness of the US dollar,” he added. “To have achieved such a high increase in sales, despite this problem, is extremely encouraging but, of course, we still need to do even better next year.” The recent growth in sales reflected the pattern throughout the year by coming partly from increased sales of Delcam’s established Power Solution range of CADCAM programs and partly from its acquisitions during the past three years – FeatureCAM, PartMaker and Crispin. “We are continuing to develop the sales of all our products across all the countries in which we trade,” commented Mr. Humphreys. “This international approach has been particularly important for our FeatureCAM and PartMaker acquisitions, which were sold previously in a limited number of countries.”