Technology Partners

Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace, headquartered in Tokyo. With approximately 175,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corporation of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers.

In the UK and Ireland Fujitsu is a leading IT systems, services and products company employing 14,000 people with annual revenue of £2 billion. Its business is in enabling its customers to realise their objectives by exploiting information technology through its integrated product and services portfolio. This includes consulting, applications, systems integration, managed services and products for customers in the private and public sectors including retail, financial services, telecoms, government, defence and consumer sectors.

In the retail sector we start by thinking about retail IT services from a customer perspective. By understanding consumer needs, preferences and shopping behaviour, Fujitsu supports retailers in delivering, measuring and managing their customer's experience.

With over 30 years experience, working with 130 retailers in 52 countries, across 82,000 stores worldwide, we provide a broad portfolio of offerings from in-store technology, multichannel, loyalty schemes, digital media, RFID and supply chain, through to network management and traditional IT managed services.

Global Bay

Global Bay Mobile helps today's leading organizations drive greater worker efficiency, productivity and revenue, both inside and outside the four wall, around the world, and across all industries. Through the GBmobile platform, companies can cost-effectively accelerate the mobilization of existing back-end systems and paper-based data collection processes.

The company is headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey, with offices in United Kingdom and Japan. Global Bay's customers range from the government agencies and multinational retail organizations to small and medium-sized enterprises across a number of key industry sectors.

GuestLogix

GuestLogix is the leading provider of onboard retail technology and solutions to the passenger travel industry. The Company provides retail technology and merchandising solutions that help carriers to grow onboard sales. With a customer base comprising 9 of the top 11 global airlines, the Company maintains agreements to serve more than 35 per cent of the global passenger traffic via its proprietary retail platform based on the 2008 passenger data compiled by Air Transport Intelligence. GuestLogix is publicly traded in Toronto (TSX:V) under the symbol "GXI".

Handpoint

Handpoint, the mobile experts, is a pioneer in mobile EPoS solutions with secure payments for the new generation of payment terminals running a Microsoft Windows operating system. The handPoint mobile POS solution was the world's first to be accredited for EMV payment standard (Chip&PIN) in the United Kingdom utilizing the STS Emvelink for mobile. Handpoint helps customers bringing the sale to the customer and has a number of retailers in the UK and leading airlines in the world using its software doing mobile POS.

IBM

IBM is the leading EPOS provider worldwide in all sectors including general retail, food retailing and hospitality. IBM has been in the card processing business for more than 12 years. In the UK IBM has most of the major high street names using its EFTPOS products. In conjunction with STS, IBM was the first supplier to bring EMV solutions to the market. IBM and STS had more retailers live during the Northampton trial than any other vendor. Since then IBM and STS have continued to migrate new merchants to run a full Chip and PIN solution. The use of Emvelink has made the transition from magnetic stripe to chip low risk.

Onboard Retail Solutions

Onboard Retail Solutions is a specialist in the facilitation and optimisation of onboard retailing, providing a seamlessly integrated technological solution for air, rail and ferry businesses around the world. Onboard's solution operates on a per transaction business model, creating a joint enterprise between Onboard and customer that demands zero capital outlay but provides a flexible, tailored system geared to drive revenue and maximise profits.

PCMS Group

PCMS Group plc is a Coventry UK based International Software and Services Company established in 1982, with additional branches in Huntingdon (UK) and Cincinnati (USA) working together with a network of distributors around the world. PCMS is an acknowledged leading global player in the retail systems marketplace and the UK's leading independent retail software solutions provider.

PCMS's pure Java PoS solution, Vision BeanStore is the solution of choice for some of the world's leading retail organisations across all market sectors.

STJ Retail

Headquartered just north of Toronto, Canada, STJ Retail has been providing innovative solutions to the retail marketplace for over 13 years. STJ is aligned with several major hardware manufacturers, and offers both augmentation services and/or turn-key solutions, including 7x24 hour help desk services. In addition to having extensive 4690 POS development and support expertise, STJ has invested over $6 Million in R&D in the last 8 years and has two leading products: EFT PlusTM, addressing Chip & PIN Compliance and Fuel PlusTM, an integrated fuel management solution.