15th January 2008

The company, based at BioCity, has developed a unique system for signing off documents with an electronic digital signature which is equivalent to "wet ink" on paper. It has also developed electronic document management software which will manage documents to comply with EU and US regulators such as the Food and Drug Administration.

The status of each version of a document can be signed off electronically. The G-docs product is an electronic storage repository for regulatory and study documentation. Its sophisticated access and version control allows documents to be "checked in" and "checked out". Patrick Hughes has joined as senior vice-president of sales and marketing from Clinphone, the clinical trials support group, where he had a similar role. Mr Hughes said: "I am launching the company in the US primarily to the life science sector. "There are a huge number of such companies in California." He said the opening of the new office in Irvine, California, recognised the importance of the US market to the growth of the company.

Keith Williams, chief executive of Good Products, said: "We recognise the importance of providing pragmatic software solutions to the hundreds of companies who need a credible alternative to expensive systems that require extensive installation and training programmes." He said demand for G-docs, and its sister products G-train and CoSign, had increased significantly as clients saw they could quickly use an intuitive document management solution to improve project workflow. Mr Williams said the company had attracted sales locally with Pharmaceutical Profiles and Clinphone prior to Dr Neil Rotherham and Mr Hughes joining the business. Good Products began in July 2006 and now employs five. Mr Williams said: "We are on a reasonable growth rate and we are looking to hire another three over the next couple of months.