Salesforce.com Expands North American Operations with New Office in Toronto
Downtown Toronto Location to Serve as Hub of Expanding Canadian Operations
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com
(NYSE: CRM), the global leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced that it has opened a new office in Toronto, Canada to serve the needs of Canadian businesses and, longer term, support companies in the Eastern United States. The office addition marks the continued success of salesforce.com as it expands to meet the needs of its growing customer base.
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"Toronto is the perfect addition to our global offices, and provides both the healthy business climate and rich talent pool we were seeking," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. "The response in this vibrant market has been inspiring, so we're looking forward to building our Toronto team and bringing the benefits of on-demand CRM to even more companies across Canada."
Salesforce.com's new office will be located at 20 Bay Street, overlooking Lake Ontario and can support up to 150 people as the company expands its sales, operations, information technology and finance organizations. The new office opening comes at a time when salesforce.com is making a major hiring push across the corporation. The office will provide additional support to more of the many Canadian companies already using salesforce.com solutions, including Bell Canada, Nova Scotia Business, and Blast Radius.
Vice President Michael Basch will manage the new Toronto office and will host salesforce.com's upcoming November 8 Toronto City Tour. "Our City Tours have been a great way for customers to exchange best practices with each other and share their enthusiasm with businesses that are new to salesforce.com," said Basch. "We look forward to expanding success on demand in Toronto." For more information on the Toronto City Tour, please visit www.salesforce.com.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). The company's Salesforce family of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on demand. Appforce, salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers to customize and integrate the Salesforce family to meet their unique business needs, and build whole new powerful applications quickly and easily. Appforce applications are available via AppExchange, salesforce.com's on-demand application sharing service. Customers can also take advantage of salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.
As of July 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 16,900 customers and approximately 308,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com services should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM". For more information please visit www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
NOTE: Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and Appforce and AppExchange are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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