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Ticket sales have increased 37% year on year, with revenue up by 35% for Cheltenham Racecourse with new Kentico CMS-powered website

Wokingham, UK, August 02, 2012 – Kentico Software (www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, announced today 37% increase in ticket sales and 53% increase in traffic after the successful implementation of the Cheltenham Racecourse website by True Digital using Kentico CMS.

“This project and its resulting success is a great example of the Kentico platform, its flexibility, stability, functionality and ease of use." says Petr Palas, the CEO and founder of Kentico Software, “Kentico CMS empowers Web developers to raise the stakes and to quickly and cost-effectively deploy fantastic websites.”

Cheltenham Racecourse (www.cheltenham.co.uk) needed an easy-to-use, non-technically demanding solution that would help bring horse racing to the masses, create excitement around their biggest race meetings and increase ticket sales. The web project was delivered by True Digital, a Kentico solution partner from Bristol, UK. Although rich in content and features, and involved integration with existing external tools, the development phase was completed within one month.

“Kentico’s ease of use, easy implementation, flexibility and complete range of CMS features meant that we could quickly produce a website, specific to our customer’s wishes, with phase one being completed in just one month, “says Jack Thompson, Business Development Manager of True Digital. “Integration with Cheltenham’s third party software and the ability to handle a sudden surge of visits on festival days, meant a scalable, tried-and-tested and easy-to-migrate CMS was essential. It was a one-horse race; Kentico CMS the obvious winner.”

“The re-designed site has been a huge step forward for us and has received almost universal praise. Administrators love the ease of updating the site and visitors and the press love the design and navigation.” says Andy Clifton, Communications Manager at Cheltenham Racecourse, “We are very happy with the result. I think we can all be very proud of what has been achieved in the last 6 months.”

Year on year figures for Cheltenham Racecourse show record attendees for all 4 festival days, 33% increase in traffic (climbing to 53% during the event), bounce rate down by 20% and ticket sales have increased by 37% with revenue up by 35% (2011 v 2012).

For more information read the Cheltenham Racecourse case study: http://www.kentico.com/Customers/Customer-Projects/Cheltenham-Racecourse-6098  

About Kentico CMS

Kentico CMS is an enterprise Web Content Management System and Customer Experience Management System that provides a complete set of features for building websites, intranets, community sites and e-commerce solutions on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. It supports mobile websites, SEO, document management, online marketing tools, multilingual websites, multisite management and it ships with 40 modules, 340 configurable Web parts and source code available.

Kentico CMS customers can expect a highly flexible platform with a uniquely easy-to-use user interface. It’s currently used by more than 12,000 websites in 87 countries. The clients include Microsoft, Guinness, McDonald's, Vodafone, O2, Orange, Brussels Airlines, Mazda, Ford, Subaru, Isuzu, Samsung, Gibson, ESPN, DKNY, Abbott Labs, Medibank, Ireland.ie and others.

About Kentico Software

Kentico Software (www.kentico.com) helps clients create successful dynamic websites, intranets, community sites and e-commerce solutions using Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. It's committed to deliver a full-featured, enterprise-class, stable and scalable Web Content Management solution on the Microsoft .NET platform. Founded in 2004, Kentico is headquartered in the Czech Republic and has offices in the United States (Nashua, NH and Seattle, WA), United Kingdom (Wokingham) and Australia (Sydney). Since its inception, Kentico has continued to rapidly expand the Kentico CMS user base worldwide. Its partner network consists of 1,200 partners in 80+ countries. Kentico Software is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. In 2010, Kentico was named the fastest growing technology company in the Czech Republic in the Deloitte Technology FAST 50 awards.

True Digital

True Digital (www.truedigital.co.uk) is a full service digital marketing agency offering a complete range of digital services. True’s DNA is commercial-mindedness, insight-fuelled design, measurability and interactive creativity. True’s clients include Aspen, apetito, Cheltenham Racecourse, Friends Life, Furniture Village, Steamer Trading, npower, O2, and UCAS.