MICROS is a world leader in developing, marketing and supporting information systems for the global hospitality and retail industries. Founded in 1977, MICROS consistently develops superior restaurant and retail point-of-sale and hotel reservations systems for customers worldwide. MICROS has over 350,000 plus customer sites installed worldwide including many well-known hotel, restaurant, foodservice, and retail companies. MICROS's customer base includes many of the world's top hotel companies such as Marriott Hotels, Wyndham Hotels, Hyatt Global, Starwood Hotels, restaurant companies such as TGI Friday's, Cracker Barrel, Starbucks, Burger King, Subway, and Panera Bread and retailers such as Jos. A Banks, Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer, Whirlpool, Polo Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss, Abercombie & Fitch, and Adidas.
MICROS's enterprise solutions incorporate software, services, and hardware for customers. For restaurants, MICROS's offer a range of system solutions that incorporate specially designed hardware, software, and maintenance services. MICROS's point-of-sale products and enterprise software solutions are designed to operate in multiple restaurant venues such as table service, quick service, hotels, casinos, airports, stadiums, cruise ships and cafeterias. For hotels, MICROS offers a wide range of systems that incorporate individual and chain wide reservations, front desk check-in, sales and catering, revenue management, food and beverage management and customer marketing information. For retailers, MICROS offers retailers software for point-of-sale software, loss prevention, gift cards, web site development and management, web site hosting and development, web ordering and business intelligence tools to manage their operations.
For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008, MICROS reported record revenue of $954.2 million with a net income of $101.3 million (GAAP) and earnings per share of $1.21 per diluted share (GAAP). The 2008 fiscal year again demonstrated the strength and depth of MICROS's product and service offerings and global distribution channels. MICROS's average return on equity for FY2008 was 16.5%. MICROS split its stock for the third time in its history on February 5, 2008.
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