Software developer HASP records 50% profit growth

LOVELAND — Last year, HASP Inc. had a banner year.

The Loveland-based, family-owned software manufacturing company and Hewlett-Packard Co. reseller increased profits 50 percent, earning a little more than $3.5 million by the end of 1997.

HASP continued to earn the best “in class” reseller designation from H-P for its handling of the high-end UNIX operating system. The company’s performance has also helped it sustain what H-P computer organization sales manager Jack Nicholson calls a win-win relationship.

“They have an outstanding reputation with H-P,” he said. “They are in the top 10 percent of our resellers nationwide of the 100 who sell the…