Jan 22 - OptiTex Partners with France's C-DESIGN

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OptiTex Partners with France's C-DESIGN

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PETACH TIKVA, Israel and PARIS, France, Jan 22, 2009 - Leading CAD/CAM design software manufacturer OptiTex, creates yet another powerful relationship with C-DESIGN, a Paris-based software company delivering solutions for fashion design and technical packs. The strategic cooperation between OptiTex and C-DESIGN allows distributors worldwide to offer both lines of cutting-edge software for the fashion and textile industry.

"Our new alliances with companies such as C-DESIGN, further validates the unique advantages of our software," states Ran Machtinger, President and CEO of OptiTex, Ltd. “The new cooperation with C-DESIGN is a great step into the European market for OptiTex. Both companies are well established in the fashion world and we are certain that by combining marketing efforts' both designers and manufacturers will benefit."

OptiTex’s cutting-edge CAD/CAM software is used in countries from Argentina to Vietnam. Its creativity-enhancing package provides a fully customizable onscreen environment to facilitate the creative process by using either 2D or 3D models that can be adjusted for a wide variety of body types. Designers are able to see how different fabrics will move before the first piece of fabric is cut. C-DESIGN delivers software solutions that cover all the process of creation from Design, Technical Packages to Visual Merchandising and Collection Plan.

Built specifically for the fashion industry, C-DESIGN Fashion allows designers and graphic designers to create their collections thanks the best design tools. With C-DESIGN Fashion, pattern makers and product managers create the specification sheets for each product of the collection and merchandisers have also access to powerful tools to create window displays ad merchandise presentations. C-DESIGN Fashion offers more than 18,000 existing designs for women, men and children including lingerie and swimwear. C-DESIGN Fashion is an innovative solution that enables customers to bring their collections to market faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.

“C-DESIGN has enabled designers such as ZARA, PIMKIE and OKAIDI to create high-fashion, ready-to-wear collections in record time. Cooperating with OptiTex is a promising move to insure our clients achieve top solutions for their needs and also to offer the most innovative and complete solution to the textile industry, states Patrick Abbou, CEO of C-DESIGN. "OptiTex delivers a time and cost effective solution for designers such as Hugo Boss, Zorana Kozomara, and Orient Craft, - so it is the natural step for us to combine the expertise of both companies on behalf of our customers.”

About OptiTex

OptiTex specializes in the development of innovative, easy-to-operate 2D and 3D CAD/CAM solutions for sewn products and other related industries. OptiTex’s native Windows-based software for digitizing, pattern engineering, grading, marking, advanced automatic nesting and draping, is specifically designed to meet the needs of today's manufacturers of industrial fabrics, apparel, upholstery, transportation, composites, home furnishings, among others.

OptiTex's open architecture system features multitude of import/export formats, enabling OptiTex users to interface with a wide range of software and hardware. OptiTex also offers a completely integrated CAD package. OptiTex products are available in more than 20 languages and are sold and supported around the world through certified distributors and OEMs.

For more information, www.optitex.com.

About C-DESIGN

C-DESIGN is a leading developer of software and services dedicated to the fashion industry. Since 1998, C-DESIGN and COREL, the graphics software giant, have developed an exclusive partnership to give the ready-to-wear world a new generation of software that is more intuitive, efficient and easy to use.

The purpose the C-DESIGN Fashion solution is to provide advanced fashion software that stimulates designers creativity and allows them to quickly express their ideas, simplify the work of pattern makers, buyers, product managers, the sales team and ultimately to improve the profitability of the company. The C-DESIGN Fashion solution helps speed time to market. Headquartered in Paris, C-DESIGN has a presence in over ten countries.

For more information, visit www.cdesignfashion.com.

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