Not content with achieving number one status in the UK and Eire, software specialist Business Micros is now setting its sites much further a field.

The company is looking to set up new franchises to sell its market leading software programmes across Europe and Asia.

Sales Director Graeme Bailey has just returned from a trip to Jinan in South East China where he says he was very encouraged by the response. Graeme says: "We now have potential partners lined up in China with whom we expect to sign agreements shortly.

We are poised to enter a very exciting phase in Business Micros’ expansion which I am confident will bring some quite major advantages for our customers in the UK."

Business Micros is already negotiating to set up a franchise in the US and says it plans to expand across Europe and into China and the surrounding countries.

Graeme adds: "We intend to become one of the largest specialist software suppliers in Europe, extending our customer base and increasing our infrastructure and resources.

"Our customers will benefit from the investments we will make in the company to enable us to expand and the new features which will be developed for our Evolution software package to meet the needs of these new markets."

Business Micros already invests substantially in new product development and customer support and retains both its software programming and customer support services in house.

It has almost 40 staff based at four locations across the UK with a specialist key accounts department and aluminium division.

From humble beginnings in a small Scottish town, it now has global expansion plans in place which it believes its competitors will find hard to match.

Posted on 19th July 07