Minitab Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2007 Customer Value Leadership of the Year Award

Minitab Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2007 Customer Value Leadership of the Year Award

June 07, 2007

    STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 7 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 

    Frost & Sullivan, the world's leading growth
consulting company, has named Minitab Inc. the recipient of
its 2007 Customer Value Leadership of the Year Award in the
quality compliance, manufacturing productivity and
statistical process control market. 

    The Award is one of several Best Practices distinctions
Frost & Sullivan bestows on companies that demonstrate
superior performance in a variety of global markets. It
recognizes Minitab for providing exceptional software and
services that help its customers make the best use of their
resources and maximize their profits.

    "Professionals around the world depend on
Minitab(R) Statistical Software to improve their business
processes because Minitab has been continuously evolving
the product to better meet their needs," says Frost
& Sullivan Research Analyst Sashankh Kale. "But
what sets Minitab apart from other companies in the field
is its commitment to developing additional offerings that
provide customers with even greater value and a deeper
level of support."

    Kale cites a number of examples in his report on
Minitab, including Quality Companion 2 by Minitab(TM) -- a
new software package that helps professionals plan and
execute their improvement projects, and Quality Trainer by
Minitab(TM) -- a convenient, online training service that
teaches customers how to apply statistics to improve
quality.

    "Both of these solutions significantly enhance the
productivity of Minitab's customers," Kale says.
"Quality Companion simplifies the way they implement
projects and Quality Trainer helps them use Minitab
software effectively to get the real job done."

    Kale also highlights Minitab's translation of its
statistical package into multiple languages to better serve
its global community of users, and Technical Support by
Minitab(TM) -- a service the company provides free of
charge for all its products. He notes that Minitab's
Technical Support Specialists bring an expertise in
statistics and quality improvement to the support they
provide, and that they use the exchanges they have as a
means to identify customer requirements, which the company
then builds into subsequent releases.

    In addition to extensive market research and analysis,
the selection process for the award involves in-depth
customer interviews -- a fact that underscores the award's
prestige and pleases Minitab's senior management.  

    "It's very gratifying to hear from an objective
source that our efforts to support our customers have been
working," says Tina Konrath, Minitab's Group Executive
for Sales, Training and Technical Support.  "We are
committed to helping them improve their businesses and are
proud to be providing them with products and services that
they appreciate so openly."

    Frost & Sullivan presented the award to Konrath and
honored Minitab and other companies for outstanding
performance in industrial markets at its North American
Excellence in Industrial Technologies Awards Banquet on
April 25, 2007 in Ft. Myers, Florida.

    More information about the award is available at
http://www.minitab.com and http://www.awards.frost.com .
 
    About Minitab Inc.

    Minitab Inc. is one of the world's leading developers
of statistical analysis and process improvement software
for academic and commercial users. Minitab Statistical
Software is the preferred package for businesses of all
sizes and is used in more than 80 countries by thousands of
distinguished companies, including Toshiba, 3M, Honeywell
International, Wachovia, DuPont, Samsung and leading Six
Sigma consultants. It has been used to implement virtually
every major Six Sigma quality improvement initiative, and
to teach statistics in over 4,000 colleges and universities
worldwide.

    Quality Companion by Minitab is the package
professionals use to plan and execute Six Sigma projects in
companies around the world, including Xerox, ITT Industries,
Providence Health System, Nissan North America, and
LexisNexis.

    Minitab Inc., headquartered in State College, Pa.,
operates offices in the United Kingdom, France and
Australia, and has additional representatives throughout
the world. For more information, visit
http://www.minitab.com .
 
    About Frost & Sullivan

    Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting
company, has been partnering with clients to support the
development of innovative strategies for more than 40
years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth
consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate
management training to identify and develop opportunities.
Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that
includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the
investment community by providing comprehensive industry
coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and
combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies,
econometrics, and demographics. For more information, visit
http://www.awards.frost.com . 

    FOR MORE INFORMATION or materials, including screen
shots, product packaging images and logos, and other
graphics, contact Eston Martz in Minitab's Marketing
Department: [e-mail].


    For more information, please contact:

     Eston Martz 
     Minitab's Marketing Department
     Email: [e-mail]

     Web:   http://www.minitab.com
            http://www.awards.frost.com