After the unwelcome publicity that provided the UK trade press with its copy over the Christmas period (CI No 2,170) Learmonth & Burchett Management Systems is relocating all corporate functions to its existing US headquarters in Houston, Texas, which now becomes worldwide headquarters, run by chief executive John Bantleman. Learmonth & Burchett has had a US operation for more than 10 years. The company says the move is part of a general corporate reorganisation and nothing to do with the litigation it is currently in with the UK’s Performing Rights Society. However, it has divested its UK training operation and refocused itself as a software company for the US market. Learmonth & Burchett’s London office will remain as European headquarters under Robin Dahlberg – product management and development is being shifted to Houston, where there is already one new product under way. The US accounted for 55% of Learmonth & Burchett’s รบ26.4m 1993-94 turnover. It has 115 staff in the US, 131 in the UK, the bulk in development. Learmonth & Burchett will relaunch its Process Engineer Windows application development tool set in the US; version 6 of its Systems Engineer rapid application development environment is due this summer, including a code generator local area network-based repository.
