Perigord Group opens new office in Brazil to drive South American business.

South American base expands the group's global reach to six continents.

São Paulo, Brazil, May 23rd 2011. The Perigord Group, a Global Artwork Management company, announced today that it has opened a new office in São Paulo, Brazil.

The new office will work exclusively on the South American market and from it's location in São Paulo, Brazil, will begin the roll out of the group’s breakthrough GLAMS or Global Pharmaceutical Artwork Management System throughout the region.

GLAMS was launched in North America at Interphex 2008, with the appointment of Montesino Associates LLC to serve as its exclusive United States pharmaceutical industry sales agent. The system is now being used by some of the largest Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies. The relationship with Montesino will now extend to oversee the introduction of the product to the South American market.

Commenting on the new office, Alan Leamy, Perigord Group, Chief Executive Officer said, “We’re delighted to be establishing a base in South America. The Pharmaceutical & Healthcare industry has enjoyed phenomenal growth within this region. Montesino Associates, under the direction of Peter Schmitt and his team of managing and senior associates, is the partner we need to help drive our success within this region.’

Brazil has been named as a key player within the ‘Pharmerging Markets’, a phrase coined by IMS Health, one of the World’s leading providers of market intelligence, to describe the top or ‘tier-1’ emerging pharmaceutical markets. In 2009 the group forecast that these markets would account for a phenomenal 51 percent of all global growth.

“We are very excited to be extending our relationship with The Perigord Group”, Montesino Associates’ founder Peter Schmitt said today. “The GLAMS Global Artwork Management System offers clients an unprecedented array of flexibility, productivity and cost-efficiencies previously unavailable to clients in the generic pharmaceutical industry. We are delighted to announce that Inez Aguiar will head up our multilingual Perigord team for South America ”

GLAMS is a web-based Global Artwork Management System that was developed to control and manage artwork from concept through to printing. It places total control over artwork in the customer’s hands, enabling better management of costs and accelerating the customer’s time to market.

What’s more, GLAMS creates a central online storage area that accepts all files using recognized industry standards, to provide a single point of proof. GL-AMS allows all involved parties to participate directly in the print production process to generate artwork in a unified tracking and management flow. GLAMS integrates with all aspects of the artwork life cycle according to and in compliance with relevant industry standards and the customer’s specific needs.

The Perigord Group, specializes in providing workflow solutions for the Pharmaceutical and IT markets. Prospective customers seeking more information can visit http://www.perigordgroup.com for a complete overview of the company’s history, products, and support services.

While headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the Perigord Group also maintains a United States base of operations in Branford, Connecticut and Sacramento, and an APAC base of operations in Singapore and Christchurch, New Zealand. More information about Perigord Group can be obtained by email from peter.schmitt@montesino.com.

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Pictured, Peter Schmitt, founder, Montesino Associates & Inez Aguiar, Perigord Group, Brazil.

High Res Images: Peter Schmitt & Inez Aguiar

About The Perigord Group
The Perigord Group, are a global production agency. Headquartered in Europe, we have offices in the USA and APAC regions. We help clients and agencies create, manage and deliver their brand messages nationally and globally when required.

Founded in 1976, our heritage lies in traditional prepress, however a key strength and ingredient to our history of success is our strong commitment to evolution and technology innovation. We believe in partnership. We integrate with our clients business process and it is within this partnership model that we work best. For example, our GLAMS product is a collaborative system, which connects all stakeholders in the creation of marketing collateral. This delivers to our clients, full control and full visibility of project progress.

We are a private company owned by Alan Leamy (CEO) and Paul Leamy (CTO).