Brussels/Salo, April 23rd, 2009 – TOSHIBA TEC Europe and Nordic ID announced today they have entered into a European strategic alliance, providing significant wireless and mobile telecommunications solutions for retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and warehousing and security industries. RFID-ready barcode printers from TOSHIBA TEC’s Auto ID & Printer Division are now being jointly offered with Nordic ID’s barcode and UHF RFID mobile devices, to optimise the use of emerging technologies with standard communication systems.

“We expect this partnership to drive sales for both companies and produce significant savings for our joint customers’ business networks in retail, industry, healthcare, warehousing and security,” said Angel de Juan, European Sales Director, TOSHIBA TEC Europe Auto ID & Printer Division. “Nordic ID will be getting the expertise of TOSHIBA TEC as one of the world leaders in RFID and barcode printing technologies, along with the assurance of achieving maximum efficiency regardless of setup.”

Atte Kaskihalme, Sales Director, Nordic ID said: “Nordic ID has a long history in the creation of handheld devices with ergonomic single-handed operational design and user friendliness. Building on this experience, and feedback gathered from retailers, Nordic ID deliver a compact and user friendly design coupled with a robust and flexible platform that can adapt to future technologies.”

With its knowledge of retail, supply chain and healthcare markets TOSHIBA TEC Europe will be able to support Nordic ID with customer audits, resulting in further optimisation of installations and operations.

Acerca de TOSHIBA TEC Europe

TOSHIBA TEC Europe (TERIS) es una compañía dedicada a la fabricación y comercialización de Impresoras de Código de Barras/ RFID, TPVs, cajas registradoras, periféricos, software y sistemas de información a través de Europa, Oriente Medio y África. Como proveedor de soluciones globales, TOSHIBA TEC Europe ofrece un completo paquete de servicios de consultoría, mantenimiento, implantación y desarrollo de sistemas para la industria y el comercio.

La oficina central de la compañía está en Bruselas, Bélgica y cuenta con tres divisiones: Retail, Identificación Automática y Servicios.

TOSHIBA TEC es una compañía independiente de Toshiba Corporation, la séptima compañía a nivel mundial de equipamiento eléctrico y electrónico y la 91ª del mundo en ventas. En el Ranking de la revista Fortune aparece como la 8ª empresa más admirada del sector TI en el mundo. Además, Toshiba Corporation es líder tecnológico mundial con más de 300 subsidiarias y filiales en todo el mundo. En su último año fiscal obtuvo un beneficio de 76,6 billones de dólares.

About Nordic ID

Originally a small engineering company, Nordic ID, based in Salo “the mobile valley of Finland”, has grown to be one of the main providers of handheld terminals and computers for retail and industry, with customers such as WH Smith, Spar, Coop, Adidas and Kaiser's Tengelmann. Every morning between 8 and 9, over 2 million retail transactions are processed by Nordic ID handhelds. Annually the company supplies over 10.000 products that use the latest wireless and mobile telecommunications technology. For more information: www.nordicid.com.

Para más información

TOSHIBA TEC Europe Retail Information Systems
Deyanira, 57
28022 Madrid - España
Contacto: María Sánchez
Tel: +34 91 502 15 90
Fax: +34 91 502 81 00
E-mail: marketing@toshibatec-eu.es
Web: www.toshibatec-eu.es

bdicomunicación
Eugenio Sanz
Jorge Rodrigálvarez
eugenio@bdicomunicacion.com
jorge@bdicomunicacion.com
Tel: +34 91 360 46 10

Nordic ID
Myllyojankatu 2 A
FIN-24100 SALO
Finland
Contact: Mr Atte Kaskihalme, Sales Director
Tel: +358 2 727 7700
Fax: +358 2 727 7720

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