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Multicard | Press Release | Multicard Expands Availability of Mobile Phone-based Cashless Payments Using Rabobank Digital Wallet
1. Multicard Expands Availability of Mobile Phone-based Cashless
Payments Using Rabobank Digital Wallet
Food service partners deploy Cashless Betalen™ solution in companies, schools
OUD-BEIJERLAND, The Netherlands – April 18, 2012 – Multicard, a leading supplier of
credential solutions, identity management and system integration services and a business unit of
Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV), today announced the expanded availability
of its mobile phone based cashless payment solution, Cashless Betalen™, into additional
micropayment environments in The Netherlands through partnership with leading catering and
food service providers. Following the initial successful launch of the solution to sports clubs,
Multicard is now signing up commercial caterers who are implementing Cashless Betalen to
enable phone-based cashless payments in company canteens and school cafeterias across the
country.
Joop Stutterheim, Marketing Manager at Eurest, the workplace and business brand of the global
food service company Compass Group PLC, said, “The Cashless Betalen solution provides
several benefits for us, for our customers and in turn their customers. The solution reduces the
resources needed to handle cash, which is expensive and requires additional security protocols.
Payment lines move more quickly and efficiently. And our guests are able to top-up their wallets
with a mobile app or even better, using auto reload. Eurest is always searching for possible
process improvements. The implementation of Cashless Betalen makes our company ready for
the next generation of payments.”
In addition to increased efficiency, Cashless Betalen also provides records of each transaction for
future reference – a benefit that is very popular in the education market. Pieter Kooistra,
Managing Director of Multicard Netherlands, explains: “The International School of The Hague
offers healthy food to their primary and secondary school students, but parents wanted
information about their children’s actual choices. Together with the school’s caterer Eurest and
their chosen point of sale partner, Multicard created a digital receipt that includes all meals and
other food purchases, which allows parents to review their children’s school diets.”
2. Cashless Betalen is the account management engine application used with the digital wallet
offered by Rabobank, one of the leading banks in the Netherlands. The application allows
consumers to pay for their meals or other items in less than a second, with just a tap of the phone
to a payment terminal. By eliminating cash payments, transactions are faster and more efficient,
lines at the register shorten and more customers can be served. By downloading the app from
Google Play or the Apple App Store, Cashless Betalen users can check account balances,
transfer funds and monitor account activity using their smartphones; account information is also
available via the Internet. More than 100 company canteens, high schools and international
schools in The Netherlands have now implemented Cashless Betalen.
About Multicard:
Multicard, a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt: INV), is a worldwide
supplier of card solutions for secure identification programs, with in‐house capabilities for
credential issuance, personalization and fulfillment services for the consumer, government,
education, healthcare and corporate markets. Multicard offers ID systems management and
engineering services as well as full implementation and program management. Multicard also is a
provider of enrollment, emergency management and accreditation solutions using data capture
equipment for ePassport and other government ID and corporate ID applications. For additional
information, visit www.multicard.com.
Identive Group, Inc. is a leading provider of products, services and solutions for the security,
identification and RFID industries. For more information, please visit www.identive‐group.com.
Note: Cashless Betalen is a trademark of Multicard. All other trade names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Contacts:
Multicard:
Antoinette de Jongh, +31(0)186‐636530, a.de.jongh@multicard.nl
Identive Group:
Darby Dye, +1 949 553‐4251, ddye@identive‐group.com
Lennart Streibel, +49 89 9595 5195, lstreibel@identive‐group.com
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