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Finnish National Railway opts in
favour of Almex
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Press Release
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Hanover, 27 March 2008. The Finnish National
Railway VR Ltd. is in the process of renewing its ticketing system
and has made Almex its supplier of choice. Together with its
local partner Enfo Oyj, Almex plans to supply the Finnish state-owned
railway with 900 almex.mobile ticket vending devices for train
attendants. Almex, the ticketing division of Höft & Wessel
AG, had already supplied the successful predecessor version.
In future, the almex.mobile will enable train attendants to use
technologically sophisticated communication facilities such as
GPRS, WLAN and Bluetooth, for instance to allow passengers to
pay for their tickets online,. Delivery of the devices is scheduled
to commence in 2008.
Apart from the compelling performance of the solution on offer,
the decisive reason for choosing Almex once again as a supplier
was the positive experience gained in the course of their mutual
collaboration in the past. The Finnish National Railway is already
the fourth European state-owned railway corporation to choose the
almex.mobile for nationwide coverage, along with its Austrian,
Swiss and Slovakian counterparts.
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 to meet customers’ specific
needs: convenient, mobile data recording devices of the Skeye brand,
innovative ticket systems under the Almex label and robust car
park ticket vending machines from the UK subsidiary, Metric. Well
over a third of the Company's workforce of about 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.
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For additional information please contact:
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
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