1 January 2010 - For immediate release

In 1990, entrepreneur Warren Vick founded a modest consulting business developing software for the telecommunications industry. Within a few years, the company was known as Europa Technologies and by developing a range of map data products became part of an evolving GIS industry. This year the company proudly celebrates its 20th anniversary.

Today, multi-award winning Europa Technologies is widely recognised as an industry leader in digital mapping and associated products & services. Through deployment via Google Earth alone, the company's ubiquitous world map is used by over 500 million people, over 1 in 13 of the world's entire population. After two decades, Europa Technologies continue to innovate and develop customer-focussed products & services. The company remains nimble and able to quickly respond to both industry change and market opportunity.

Founder and director Warren Vick commented, "Much has changed over the past two decades including the birth of the mainstream Internet, Google and the emergence of digital mobile phone networks. I am honoured to have guided Europa Technologies through these exciting times and look forward to both challenges and opportunities in the future. I would like to thank our customers, partners and employees for making the past 20 years such a great success".

Europa Technologies has been profitable since inception and has enjoyed growth in turnover and profit in the vast majority of trading years. The company is privately held, with no investors or debt.

As part of a year-long celebration, Europa Technologies will announce anniversary events, new products & services and special offers in every month of 2010.

About Europa Technologies

Europa Technologies is a specialist manufacturer of digital world map data for a wide variety of market sectors and applications. Our products allow organisations with international interests to better understand their customers, assets and markets, in a geographic context, to gain a competitive or strategic advantage. Topographic and satellite imagery products from Europa Technologies are used by many Fortune Global 500 companies and several missions of the United Nations. Europa Technologies is also the official supplier of mobile network coverage maps to the GSM Association, the global trade organisation for the leading mobile telecommunications standard. The company has global licence agreements with a number of leading Internet-based service providers including Google Earth/Maps (USA), Microsoft/Multimap (UK), ViaMichelin (France) and Maps24 (Germany). Through deployment via Google alone, our world data products are used by over 500 million people, approximately 1 in 4 of Internet users world-wide and our mobile coverage maps are accessed by over 20 million unique users, each year.

For further information, please visit www.europa.uk.com

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