Metz, France, May 12 2011 - SOHO SPORTS and The Associated Press have signed an agreement licensing sports agate to Soho to provide pagination solutions to AP member newspapers looking to streamline their sports agate print production.

"This licensing agreement will enable our newspaper customers to integrate, customize and intelligently manage the AP's unmatched depth of sports agate content," said Bruno Taquois, Soho's Head of Sales. "This is especially important in today's highly competitive publishing environment that is increasingly driven by the need for speed and accuracy."

Soho Sports is the developer of "Soho Sports CMS", a platform dedicated to the management and publishing of national and prep sports. The signing of a Developer and Integrator Agreement with the AP was announced today.

"AP member newspapers who engage Soho Sports for their sports agate pagination will now have the convenience of already having licensed AP sports agate available," said Sue Cross, AP's senior vice president for Business Development and Partner Relations Americas.

"Given the daily publishing demands and challenges faced by newspapers worldwide, this arrangement demonstrates Soho's ongoing commitment to provide integrated, innovative and cost effective solutions -such as Page Ready and Print Ready- in response to the changing needs of publishers operating in this sector," said Joe Scarfi, Soho's Sales Director for North America.

SOHO Informatique, a software company based in Metz France with offices in Toronto Canada and Los Angeles is the developer of Soho SPORTS, a content management platform designed to collect, manage and automatically assemble all the unique elements of a newspaper's local, national and international sports pages including calendars, statistics, results, rankings, etc. Output to all media channels: print, web and SMS / mobile platforms is available from a single database.

Soho Sports is a vetted, managed service, CMS solution used in daily production by over 400-newspaper titles worldwide.

About Soho Informatique.
Founded in 2000, Soho has become the international leader in providing tools to collect the sports data for the publishing companies. More than 400 titles use Soho Sports in daily production.
More information:
www.soho-sports.com

About Associated Press (AP).
Founded in 1846, The AP is an American News Agency owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations. The AP figures 3,700 AP editorial, communications and administrative employees worldwide. The AP operates 300 plus locations worldwide.
More information:
www.ap.org