NetVision-related contract win with Karstadt
Karstadt Installs Symbol Bar Code Scanners, Wireless Voice Over Internet Data Phones
Thursday March 22, 12:15 pm Eastern Time (2001)
Press Release
Rollout By Europe's Largest Retailer Maximizes Productivity and Price Savings, In-Store Efficiencies and Customer Service
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2001-- Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL - news) announced today at the CeBit Trade Show and Exposition (Hannover, Germany) that Karstadt Warenhaus AG of Germany, Europe's largest retailer and a long-term Symbol customer, is deploying its extensive voice and data wireless local area network, including voice-over-IP (Internet Protocol) NetVision® Data Phones, and the next-generation of handheld laser bar code scanners.
Karstadt has teamed with Symbol on in-store solutions based on Symbol's innovative mobile computing, wireless local area networking and bar code scanning technologies since the mid-1980's.
The Symbol M2007 handheld bar code scanner, which features multiple scan patterns to decode traditional linear bar codes, PDF417 (the defacto two dimensional symbology standard in a number of markets and nations) and the emerging stacked codes, is being installed in 73 of Karstadt's 208 department stores based in Germany. Karstadt store price labels contain two lines of price and product information making the M2007 the ideal device to quickly decode and record the data.
World's Largest NetVision DataPhone Customer
Karstadt will also deploy 10,000 Symbol NetVision Data Phones, based on wireless voice over I/P technology over Symbol's Spectrum24 wireless LAN, which acts as a combined mobile computer, Internet phone and bar code scanner. The devices will perform and automate numerous in-store tasks, such as inventory, price check and item ordering, and also allow in-store employees to communicate with cell-phone quality voice - via the Internet - to instantly access information at any of its stores.
``We believe that being able to manage voice and data along with information captured from scanning at checkout with these optimal devices, allows us to be highly effective in eliminating errors, managing our inventory, and maximizing customer service,'' said Peter S. Niederhausen, IT Coordinator, Karstadt Warenhaus AG. ``This instant information gives us a competitive advantage by allowing us to quickly recognize, react and accommodate changing customer demands.''
``We're seeing global retail leaders such as Karstadt pioneer a worldwide trend in next-generation strategic technology that allows its employees to maximize their time and better serve its customers,'' said Tomo Razmilovic, president and CEO, Symbol Technologies. ``We believe that even in a tightening global economy, out customers will continue to invest in technology which directly affects the way they do business.'' |
