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Skeye announces cooperative venture
with Primelco Device AG in Switzerland

 
Press Release

 
Hanover/Baar ZG, 13 February 2008 --- Höft & Wessel AG, from Hanover, Germany, has managed to acquire a strong local distribution partner in Switzerland for its Skeye business division in the form of Primelco System Device AG, Baar.

The cooperative venture between these two enterprises extends to include the entire range of products of the Skeye business division. Both partners specialise in supplying the commercial sector in their respective domestic markets and pursue the same business strategy of long-term partnership offering a customer-optimised range of solutions.

Primelco System Device AG will offer the products of the German market leader within the mobile data recording sector to businesses from the trade, retail, logistics and field service sectors of the Swiss market. Amongst the successful performance features of the mobile data entry devices of the Skeye brand are their easy, one-handed operation, the low weight of the devices, accompanied by a high protection class (IP 65), their extra large, easy to read displays and their communication options that utilise WLAN, GPRS, DECT or Bluetooth, and which ensure problem-free integration into the IT environment of the customer.

Apart from through its commercial expertise, Skeye was also able to convince through its well known Swiss reference customers, which include for example the Swiss postal service. In addition, Skeye has an excellent position when it comes to RFID-based solutions for the wholesale and retail trade. The future belongs to the new wireless technology; it has the potential increasingly to replace the current barcode labelling system.

Höft & Wessel AG, Hanover, established by the entrepreneurs of the same name in 1978, has remained an innovative SME to this day. The company, which has been listed on the stock market since 1998, provides enterprises of note in the retail, logistics, transport & traffic sectors with products and solutions optimised for customers’ specific needs: convenient, mobile data recording devices of the Skeye brand, innovative ticket systems of the Almex brand and robust car park ticket vending machines from the UK subsidiary, Metric. About one third of the company's workforce of approximately 500 employees is engaged in research and development. An average of ten per cent of sales revenues is invested in this field each year. Höft & Wessel products are available in Germany as well as in many European markets, and, in line with the company's internationalisation strategy, increasingly also in the U.S.

Primelco Systems AG is a leading retailer with professional competence in the market sectors of cash settlement solutions and mobile data recording systems. Headquartered in Baar and Lausanne, and together with its affiliated company, Primelco Visual Data AG, it specialises in the retail, gastronomy, logistics and commercial sectors of the Swiss market. Its founder and chairperson, Hans Peter Schenkel, has this year been able to look back on the successful 20-year existence of both companies. Besides familiar brands like 4POS, Epson, Star Micronics, Metrologic, Tipro and Zebra, with the new products from Skeye, everything is now available to all partners and for every project from a single source.

 

 
Additional information :

Höft & Wessel AG

Dr. Imai-Alexandra Roehreke, Head of Investor Relations and Public Relations
Rotenburger Str. 20, 30659 Hanover, Germany
Tel. +49 511 6102-300, Fax. +49 511 6102-433
Mail. presse@hoeft-wessel.de

Primelco Sytstem Device AG
Karin Zutter, Marketing
Neuhofstrasse 25, CH-6340, Baar, Switzerland,
Tel. +41 41 766 27 27, Fax +41 41 766 27 20
Mail. pos@primelco.ch, Web. www.primelco.ch
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