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BRUSSELS/TREVISO, May 2009 – TOSHIBA TEC Europe has entered a strategic partnership agreement with mobile computing specialists ATON. Leveraging the synergies between the two companies, the multi-year business partnership will provide the Auto ID market in Europe with a complete solution for managing mobile technology. ATON leads Italy’s Enterprise Mobility and RFID market with more than twenty years’ experience in Mobile and Wireless applications providing strategic solutions and managed services for Mobile Workers (Sales, Logistics and Transportation, Manufacturing, Maintenance & Utilities). Angel de Juan, European Director, TOSHIBA TEC Auto ID & Printing Division: “ATON’s mobile computing software works seamlessly with our RFID-ready barcode label printers to deliver best-of-breed robust Auto ID solutions. Companies looking for warehouse management, sales force automation and route accounting can now deploy highly mobile environments with complete control over the management of their data, communications and devices.” “ATON’s expertise in mobile computing and TOSHIBA TEC rugged and reliable handheld label printers deliver the right cost-effective solutions at the right time, especially in RFID market”, says Domenico Marchetti, Corporate Marketing Director ATON S.p.A. “This partnership will provide great added value to our customers.” The agreement between ATON and TOSHIBA TEC allows ATON to sell, distribute and market the new B-EV4 and EP-4 handheld label printers as well as a variety of TOSHIBA TEC RFID-ready label printers including the industrial SX series label printers and the SA4 desktop barcode label printers combined with ATON’s onLog’s warehouse management solution, onRoad route accounting solution or sales force automation solution onSales. About TOSHIBA TEC Europe TOSHIBA TEC Europe (TERIS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of point of sale systems, cash registers, scales, barcode printers, peripherals and software information systems throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As a total solution provider, TOSHIBA TEC Europe offers a complete package from consulting and system design to system installation, operation and maintenance.
Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium TERIS has three divisions: the Retail division; the Auto ID division and the Services division.
TOSHIBA TEC is an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, the seventh largest electronics/electrical equipment company and the world's 91st largest company in terms of sales. Ranked by Fortune magazine as the eighth Most Admired Electronics Company in the World, Toshiba Corporation is a world leader in high technology products with more than 300 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Fiscal year revenue in 2007 was approximately $76.6 billion.
For more information on TOSHIBA TEC point of sale systems, cash registers, scales, barcode printers, peripherals and software information systems, or for a dealer in your area, call +44 (0)870 890 7200 or visit the TERIS web site at www.toshibatec-eu.co.uk. About ATON S.p.A. ATON S.p.A., the Italian leader in Enterprise Mobility and RFID market, has 20 years’ experience in Mobile and Wireless applications providing strategic solutions and managed services for Mobile Workers (Sales, Logistics and Transportation, Manufacturing, Maintenance & Utilities).
The business idea is to provide customers managing a mobile workforce with what they mainly need and have not yet found: how to get under control and improve their field workforce business efficiency, monitoring workers’ performance (and their hardware and software technologies) by means of outsourced High Touch Managed Services and Field Intelligence. The company is also a system integrator offering analysis, software platform and development, consultancy, hardware selection, security and mobile device management, peripherals and synch database, communications wireless networking and system maintenance in order to achieve complete field computing management.
ATON is currently developing a European organization starting from Italy (HQ in Treviso with four branches in Milan, Rome, Turin and Bologna), Spain (Aton España Soluciones de Movilidad in Madrid), Portugal (On Portugal Managing Mobility in Lisbon and Porto) and partners all over Europe. The commitment is to provide international customers with multinational services relying on an ecosystem of global and local alliances, represented by software and hardware vendors, system integrators, Telco, analysts and Universities.
The Global Managed Services for Mobile Field Force (for example: M3, MyService, Aton Service Dashboard for real-time control or Aton SPOC Help Desk for Mobile Workers in nine languages) now open the opportunity to standardize, outsource, actively control and improve IT mobile solutions anytime, anywhere.
For more information about ATON’s solutions visit our corporate website at http://www.aton.eu/. For media enquiries please contact: TOSHIBA TEC Europe Retail Information Systems - UK Operations
Contact: Becky Viccars
Campus 300, Spring Way
Maylands Avenue
Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP2 7GG
United Kingdom
Tel: 0870 890 7200
Fax: 0870 890 7350
E- mail: marketing@toshibatec-eu.co.uk. ATON S.p.A.
Via A. Volta, 2
31020 Villorba (Tv)
Italy
Contact: Anna Manfè
Marketing and Communications Manager
Tel: +39 0422 618554
Fax: + 39 0422 618585
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