Product category:
Point of purchase, retail design
News Release from: West International AB | Subject: Paystation Cash Handling System
Edited by the Marketingservicestalk Editorial
Team on 01 May 2007
Cashguard and West International launch
in UK
Point-of-sale specialists Cashguard AB and West International AB are to start work on developing their automated-payment and cash-handling business in the UK.
Goran Sparrdal, Director of West International, said: "Retail cash handling security is crucial for the modern day point of sale "Our business concept is to provide solutions together with integration knowledge for efficient and secure transactions within point of sale and banking on a global market
"It is our intention to expose the UK market to a unique, secure and cost-effective automated payment system and closed cash handling solution".
West International/CashGuard's Paystation and Cash Handling System offers a high-quality turnkey solution to provide an efficient, safe and secure means of handling payments and cash.
Today, Cashguard products are used in approximately 7,000 checkouts in Sweden and Norway, and in a number of supermarkets in Germany and France.
There is pilot installation currently ongoing with Ikea in France.
"Our customers are active in supermarkets; specialist retailers such as sports outlets; convenience stores; fast food chains, such as McDonald's and Burger King; pharmacies, such as Pharmatechnik Germany; gas stations and kiosks as well as within post offices and banks.
"More than 500,000 customers use Cashguard systems every day".
Dr Detlef Graessner, founder and CEO of Pharmatechnik, explained: "The reason why we have decided to offer these innovative systems to our customers is simple: we want to present them with the best available solutions for tomorrow's workflow challenges".
West International's International Sales executive, Neil Coatsworth, said: "Our products are based on a combination of unique technologies, which make handling cash efficient and also protect valuables so that thieves are never rewarded.
"Our payment and cash handling systems are flexible solutions that can be adapted to any outlet's unique requirements.
"Today, many suppliers of checkout counters offer refitting kits and cash registers that are designed for the CashGuard systems".
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