Global Warning System (GWS) has signed a partnership agreement with Lingmerths Resebyrå AB - a major travel agency located in southern Sweden. Lingmerths will integrate the Safeture family of services, including, Safeture Go, Safeture Pro, and Safeture Pro+, to their product offering. The business model is a distributor re-sell partnership.
The GWS service, Safeture, is a personal security service, which provides critical alerts and information about natural disasters, accidents, outbreaks of disease, political unrest, crime, economic instability, and travel delays. Alerts are sent in real-time, directly to the users' smartphone, providing peace of mind to travelers. Lingmerths offers travel solutions for both leisure and business, as well as, corporate clients and government agencies. The agreement with GWS includes the re-selling of the Safeture product family, (Safeture Go, Safeture Pro, and Safeture Pro+). The product offering will be available for Swedish business customers and leisure travelers.
Peter Eklund, VD at Lingmerths Resebyrå AB, comments:
"We are very excited to partner with GWS, as their offering fits our philosophy of providing travelers peace of mind through innovation. We are committed to providing the best travel experience to our clients, and through this partnership, we can strengthen our proposition to clients. We also see an expectation for greater traveler protection coming from our clients, and our partnership with GWS is in response to this trend."
GWS has been successful in methodically signing contracts within targeted segments. Through this contract with Lingmerths, GWS will further penetrate the travel segment and consolidate a position as a leading provider of modern and personal travel security.
Andreas Rodman, CEO at GWS, comments:
"We are very happy to cooperate with Lingmerths, a respected travel agency in Sweden, whose business customers fit perfectly into our target group. The Safeture family was designed for travelers, and this contract is further proof that we offer an attractive service for the travel business."
About Lingmerths Resebyrå AB
Lingmerths Resebyrå AB is a full service agency, which means we handle both leisure- and business travel as well as group- and conference travel. The vision is to be the personal travel agency that simplifies travel. Lingmerths Resebyrå was founded in 1950 and is one of Sweden's oldest travel agencies. We are located in 10 cities in southern Sweden, employs about 90 people and has a turnover of over 700 million SEK. Lingmerths Resebyrå has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Höglandets Invest AB since 1992. We are quality and environmentally certified according to the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards, which prove that we take quality and environment seriously.
About GWS Production AB and Safeture
GWS, Global Warning System, was founded in 2009, triggered by the experience with a global SARS epidemic, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and the Mumbai terror attacks. The company offers a mobile device based, personal security service Safeture, in order to protect the traveler by real-time tracking and providing valuable real-time information about disasters and other threats that could impact on the traveler. The system consists of a range of services that are delivered via the traveler's mobile phone and is provided to both businesses - Safeture Pro, and to private individuals - Safeture.
The GWS share is listed on NASDAQ First North Stockholm. Sedermera Fondkommission is the Certified Adviser.
For additional information on the service, visit www.globalwarningsystem.com or contact CEO Andreas Rodman, +46 (0) 708 - 10 13 16, e-mail: andreas.rodman@globalwarningsystem.com
This information is information that GWS Production AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 09.00 CET on April 25th, 2017.
This is an English version of a press release communicated by GWS Production AB. In any case of doubt or possible differences regarding the different versions, it is the Swedish version that shall apply.
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