Framework Agreement on POS Terminals, Peripherals and Maintenance Services for the entire EDEKA organisation until 2015

Krefeld, October 2011 – EDEKA, one of Germany’s largest supermarket organisations, announced it has selected TOSHIBA TEC as a strategic POS supplier. The framework agreement includes all regional EDEKA supermarkets as well as discount stores Netto Marken-Discount and will run until 2015.

TOSHIBA TEC offers a five-year guarantee for its installed POS base and will deliver scheduled and preventive maintenance services for both its own as well as third-party hardware at EDEKA. EDEKA agreed on a dual vendor strategy for POS systems as part of their IT vendor consolidation with Toshiba being selected to support EDEKA Group on POS terminals, peripherals and maintenance services.

Such a comprehensive retail technology agreement will allow all IT decision-makers at all EDEKA shops in Germany - including independent EDEKA supermarkets - to implement their tailor-made TOSHIBA WILLPOS B20. The WILLPOS B20 is specifically designed to minimize energy consumption as one of many other state of the art retail technologies on board. “TOSHIBA TEC convinced us during the selection procedure by going the extra mile in their professional and flexible approach to the very specific needs of the EDEKA organisation,” Michaela Fischer-Zernin, spokesperson for EDEKA AG said.

“Very few IT vendors have such a vast in-house expertise in R&D, manufacturing, sales and services as TOSHIBA TEC,” Ulrich Hieber, Divisional Manager Retail at TOSHIBA TEC said. “EDEKA will draw plenty of benefits from our flexible approach to their retail needs; the fact that we build a tailor-made WILLPOS B20 POS system for them is a fine example.”

About EDEKA
The EDEKA Group is the Number One in Germany's food retail sector. The core business segment of the EDEKA Group is the full-range supermarket business managed by around 4,500 self employed retailers. EDEKA has also a presence in the Discount section of the industry through its Netto Marken-Discount subsidiary. In 2010, EDEKA had about 12,000 shops and 300,000 staff with a turnover of 43.5 bn EUR. Particular attention is paid to the training and promotion of junior talent: with currently more than 18.000 trainees.

A propos de TOSHIBA TEC Europe
TOSHIBA TEC Europe (TERIS) est un fournisseur de solutions globales et propose, à ce titre, une offre complète comprenant le conseil, la conception, l’installation, la mise en œuvre et la maintenance de systèmes d’encaissement, caisses enregistreuses, balances électroniques, imprimantes codes à barres, imprimantes matricielles, périphériques et solutions logicielles, à destination des marchés Européen, Moyen-Orient et Afrique.
Le siège social de TERIS est basé à Bruxelles en Belgique et se compose de trois divisions: la division Retail; la division Auto ID & Impression et la division Services.
TOSHIBA TEC est une entité opérationnelle autonome de Toshiba Corporation, un leader mondial et un précurseur dans le domaine des hautes technologies, un constructeur diversifié d’équipements électriques et électroniques, systèmes d’information et de communication; équipements numériques; équipements et composants électroniques; solutions énergétiques, telles que l’énergie nucléaire; systèmes infrastructures industrielles et sociales; appareils électroménagers.
Fondé en 1875, Toshiba compte aujourd’hui un réseau de plus de 730 sociétés, avec 199,000 collaborateurs dans le monde et un chiffre d’affaires de plus de 67 milliards de dollars.
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