IN THIS BULLETIN: NV200 product change notification – build revision 25, NV200 firmware version 4.28 released, Support for original NV9/NV10 units, Unveiling of new €20 banknote, SMART Coin System

 德利多富和ＩＴＬ宣布建立伙伴关系，ＩＴＬ将为德利多富在销售终端领域提供入门级的自动化现金解决方案提供自动化的现金。

 德利多富和ＩＴＬ宣布建立伙伴关系。　双方将在欧洲地区紧密合作，　为零售终端提供一系列的入门级解决方案。　　

ＩＴＬ销售总监，托尼 · 莫里森，说，"德利多富是零售行业的领军企业，拥有值得信赖的全球服务和支持网络。通过合作我们双方可以提供创新的、 高质量终端销售解决方案。我们很自豪的宣布这一伙伴关系，并期待提供更新的、更多，　更具有 创新性的现金处理解决方案"。

德利多富， 莱因哈德梅尔，说，"我们了解到了在销售终端领域对高效现金的自动化解决方案的巨大需求，与ＩＴＬ建立伙伴关系，可以使德利多富在纸币及硬币处理上提供优越的价格性能比 解决方案，这些方案特别适用于中小规模零售商的回收解决方案。我们将更关注方便，时尚的小型超市，便利店系统。”

Wincor Nixdorf and Innovative Technology announce partnership to provide entry solutions for automated cash handling at the Point-of-Sale

Wincor Nixdorf and Innovative Technology announced a joint partnership across Europe to develop a number of entry cash handling solutions for the Retail Sector.  With a relationship dating back to 2013 the companies have signed a partnership agreement that will see them develop retail point of sale payment solutions.

Sales Director from Innovative Technology, Tony Morrison said, “Wincor Nixdorf has an established, successful relationship with the Retail Industry, and a trusted global service and support network. By working in partnership we can offer unique, high quality point of sale solutions with a great customer value proposition. We are proud to announce this partnership and look forward to providing new, innovative cash handling solutions to the European Retail Sector.”

“We see a high demand among retailers for efficient cash automation solutions at the Point-of-Sale,” said Reinhard Meier, Global Head of Product line POS at Wincor Nixdorf. The partnership with Innovative Technology enables Wincor Nixdorf to provide note and coin recycling solutions at an excellent price performance ratio – a solution that is particularly relevant for retailers with low to medium cash volumes at the point-of-sale that wish to introduce cash recycling, like convenience, fashion and small sized grocery stores.

Picture taken at EuroCIS 2015 shows:

Reinhard Meier, Head of Product Line POS Systems at Wincor Nixdorf and Tony Morrison, Sales Director, Innovative Technology.    

About Wincor Nixdorf

Wincor Nixdorf is one of the world’s leading providers of IT solutions and services to retailers and retail banking. The company’s extensive portfolio is centered around optimizing business processes at banks and retail companies. It is aimed mainly at cutting costs and complexity and improving service to the end customer. Wincor Nixdorf has a presence in over 130 countries, with its own subsidiary companies in 42 of these.

About Innovative Technology

Innovative Technology Ltd (ITL) has been manufacturing ‘State of the Art’ cash handling solutions for over 22 years and is a market leading supplier to the International Gaming, Amusement, Vending, Retail & Kiosk Industries. The company’s philosophy to provide ‘State of the Art’, technologically advanced products is at the heart of the Company’s Ethos. Innovative Technology is proud to offer customer solutions that reduce operational costs and maximise cash efficiency.

The European Central Bank today unveiled the new issue €20 banknote that will enter circulation Wednesday 25th November 2015.

As a manufacturer of cash handling equipment we will have access to the new €20 note in advance of its official release. We will add the new €20 into all applicable Euro datasets over the coming months and release new datasets in due course – providing operators with sufficient time to update all of their validators in the field before 25/11/15.

Speaking at the launch event ECB President, Mario Draghi said “Every central bank needs to upgrade its banknotes periodically to benefit from advances in banknote technology and to maintain their integrity. The new €20 note includes a feature which you won’t have seen before. It is called the “portrait window” and is a real innovation in banknote technology. It is the outcome of the Eurosystem’s work to ensure that the euro notes continue to be resilient against counterfeiting. This will reinforce the trust that the 338 million citizens across the euro area place in their banknotes.”

In total, there are now 17.5 billion euro banknotes in circulation; the total value of these banknotes reached €1,000 billion for the first time in December 2014. The new €20 note is the third denomination in the Europa series that is gradually replacing the original euro banknotes introduced in 2002. It will be followed, over time, by new versions of the €50, €100, €200 and €500 notes.

The new €20 notes will enter into circulation on 25 November this year. By the date of the launch, the Eurosystem will have printed more than 4.3 billion such banknotes.

Dayna Patterson, Marketing Executive, is responsible for planning ITL’s busy exhibition calendar. Here we get an insight into ICE from an exhibitors perspective.

ICE is our biggest exhibition of the year and colleagues from our international offices travel to London to man the stand and meet their customers. The week starts on Sunday for me with the journey south to Excel, London to meet the stand builders and begin the set up.

Monday, the final set up day is my favourite part of the exhibition. It is always a very long day and the exhibition hall is freezing, but it is great to see all of the planning take shape and the stand come to life ready for a busy week. It is amazing to see how the exhibition hall changes from a building site to the glamour of the ICE show on Tuesday morning.

While we are completing the final set up all of my colleagues arrive into London ready for the show. Before the show starts, we always arrange a team meal on the Monday night at a local pub near our hotel in Greenwich. It is great to have the opportunity to socialise with my UK and international colleagues before the exhibition gets underway.

Usually ICE starts slowly on Tuesday morning as visitors travel across London to the Excel Exhibition Centre, but this year from the word go the stand was busy with visitors eager to see our latest products.

There was a real buzz at the stand as we launched a brand new product, SMART Coin System. Prior to the show we created a simple demo program to enable the unit to pay out coins all day at the show to demonstrate the units’ potential. It was great to see the SMART Coin System in action, attracting so much attention. As well as the new product launch ICE 2015 saw us display printing products from our subsidiary InnoPrint for the first time, making the stand our largest ever in terms of product offerings.

By day 3 (Thursday) I think I speak for all exhibitors when I say you are glad the finish line is in sight! I never sleep properly in hotels and the show is always a tiring week with long days and nights out (although it is great to catch up with colleagues and industry friends that I don’t see very often.)

The journey back home to Manchester took 5 and a half hours on Friday because of the bad traffic. I was glad to be back home for a rest and to sleep in my own bed after a tiring week.

Planning for ICE 2016 starts next week! 

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Having celebrated another year of remarkable growth in 2014, leading cash handling equipment provider, Innovative Technology has begun 2015 with a similar pace; having met with customers and industry colleagues at EAG and ICE.

Senior Business Development Manager, Paul Curley said, “In recent years we have not exhibited at AMEX, but we feel that this year is a perfect opportunity to showcase our new product releases as well as our subsidiary, InnoPrint’s ticketing products. Having released the SMART Coin System at ICE, we will use AMEX to launch this revolutionary bulk coin validator, hopper and recycler to the Irish market”.

 “With a market leading coin pay-out speed of up to 12 coins per second, the SMART Coin System is perfect for the high volume demands of the Gaming and Amusement Industries. The SMART Coin System’s bulk coin feeder reduces operator refill time by around 80%. With SMART Coin System a typical 25 minute refill is reduced to just 5 minutes, dramatically reducing operator collection costs”.

Alongside the SMART Coin System, Innovative Technology will also be showing the popular NV200, SMART Ticket and their subsidiary, InnoPrint’s printing innovations.

Paul continued, “The announcement of our subsidiary company, InnoPrint to the industry has come at a great time as TITO is becoming more prominent in the market. We have received profound interest in InnoPrint’s product range at the exhibitions we have already attended this year. As a group, we can now offer a full range of coin, note and ticket validation products, catering to our widest markets yet. Our customers remain at the heart of everything that we do, ensuring that our products retain the highest quality and continue to be affordable; qualities that we are incredibly proud of”.

Innovative Technology will be at AMEX 3-4^th March, Red Cow Conference Centre, Dublin, stand 9.

Innovative Technology unveiled their latest revolutionary product, the SMART Coin System, at ICE last week.

The SMART Coin System; a bulk coin validator, mixed coin hopper and recycler was greatly received at ICE and is set to revolutionise coin handling.

The unit validates, discriminates and stores mixed coins, eliminating coin starvation & the need for multiple hoppers. Boasting a market leading coin hopper capacity (1500 x €1) and fully audited efficient refills, the SMART Coin System is designed to eliminate coin starvation and significantly reduce operator collection costs. The SMART Coin System’s bulk coin feeder reduces operator refill time by around 80%; a typical 25 minute refill is reduced to just 5 minutes, dramatically reducing operator collection costs.

Sales Director, Marcus Tiedt said, “It was great to finally unveil the SMART Coin System last week. A considerable amount of time and effort has gone into the development and testing of this revolutionary product; something that we are all incredibly proud of”.

“The stand out products for us at ICE have been not only the SMART Coin System, but our range of SMART products and our subsidiary InnoPrint’s ticketing products too. As a group, we now offer a range of ticket printers and recyclers that complement our currency validation products, ensuring we cater for all of our customers’ validation needs”.

“ICE is always a positive way to start the year and this year our stand was manned by our international sales and support team who took the opportunity to connect with customers, both new and existing. All of the team have left ICE with a positive outlook for the year ahead and are looking forward to the numerous upcoming exhibitions that we are attending”.