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ICT GmbH Announces Reseller Agreement for Alien Technology® RFID Products
October 17, 2005 , Morgan Hill , CA – ICT GmbH , a leading European distributor and integrator of industrial automation solutions, today announced an agreement with Alien Technology to resell Alien® RFID reader and tag products in Germany , Switzerland and Austria . With the new partnership, Munich-headquartered ICT will expand its RFID business from its manufacturing base into the logistics, supply chain and retail markets with high-performance Alien-based RFID solutions for increased supply chain visibility, operating efficiency, and product safety and integrity.
“This is an exiting opportunity as there is major momentum in the RFID space coming from the retail sector,” said Dr. Immler, CEO of ICT GmbH. “The new Alien product line delivers a dramatically more competitive ratio in high-volume RFID label pricing, thus enabling many more RFID applications in the industrial world and opening up entirely new opportunities in retail and related sectors. Consequently, ICT will be able to leverage the RFID expertise we have gained with manufacturing industries to address these developing large-scale opportunities in partnership with Alien.”
“ICT is one of the pioneers of modern RFID in Europe , having led numerous innovative RFID projects, and we are pleased to be partnering with them as they project their capabilities into new market segments,” said Andrew Berger, Vice President, International, Alien Technology Corporation. “In offering Alien readers certified to Europe ’s ETSI EN 302-208 specification for higher power and our expanding family of lowest-cost RFID tags and labels, ICT is well positioned to help drive the mass deployment of RFID technology in retail supply chains.”
About ICT GmbH
ICT GmbH is an Industrial Automation Distributor and System Integrator based in Munich, Germany with subsidiaries in the US, Switzerland and Eastern Europe. ICT has delivered and integrated about 100 RFID projects in the previous 5 years. Besides its line of business in the RFID technology, ICT concentrates on Controls, Plant Intelligence and Networking products and applications. More information about ICT GmbH can be found on the Company’s website at www.ictglobal.de.
About Alien Technology
Alien Technology provides UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products and services to customers in retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, defense, transportation and logistics, pharmaceuticals and other industries. Organizations use Alien's RFID products and services to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and security of their supply chains, logistics and asset tracking operations. Alien's products include RFID tags, RFID readers and related training and professional services. Alien's patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) technology and related proprietary manufacturing processes are designed to enable the manufacture of high volume, low cost RFID tags.
Alien was founded in 1994. The company's facilities include: its corporate headquarters in Morgan Hill, CA; an RFID tag manufacturing facility in Fargo, ND; the Alien RFID Solutions Center, in the Dayton, Ohio area, and sales offices in the US, Europe and Asia. Alien is a member of EPCglobal. More information about Alien is available at www.alientechnology.com.
Alien, Alien Technology, the Alien logo, Squiggle and FSA, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Alien Technology Corporation in the United States and other countries. Copyright 2007 Alien Technology Corporation. All rights reserved.
