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Zetes (company)

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Type
  
Public

Website
  
www.zetes.com

Revenue
  
2.582 billion EUR (2015)

Founded
  
1984

Traded as
  
Euronext: ZTS

Headquarters
  
Belgium

Number of employees
  
1,187 (2015)


Key people
  
Alain Wirtz, CEO Jean-François Jacques, Chairman of the Board Pierre Lambert, CFO

Stock price
  
ZTS (EBR) € 54.30 -0.05 (-0.09%)31 Mar, 5:35 PM GMT+2 - Disclaimer

Subsidiaries
  
Blackbird Data Systems, Zetes SA, ZetesNetwave

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Zetes Industries S.A. / N.V. (Zetes) is a pan-European technology company in the industry for automatic identification of both goods and people. Zetes is headquartered in Brussels with operations in Europe, Africa and Israel.

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Goods identification

Zetes implements automatic identification and data capture systems for different steps in the supply chain: manufacturing, transport, logistics, warehousing en retail. Zetes’ implementations are based on auto id technologies: bar codes, RFID, printing, print & apply, voice recognition, image ID.

People identification

Zetes delivers people authentification solutions to governments, administrative units and public institutions, based on technologies: biometrics, AFIS and smart cards. People authentification is used in the areas of people registration, mass enrolment, data centralisation and validation, secure document production and electronic voting.

History

Zetes was founded in 1984 and has grown organically and through acquisitions.

Timeline

  • 1984: Established
  • 1985: Starts selling Barcode equipment from Symbol Technologies and Zebra Technologies
  • 1987: Deploys first major system to Colruyt, a large Belgian retailer
  • 1992: First international expansion: office in France
  • 2002: Large people ID projects in Belgium: electronic identity card and national health card
  • 2005: IPO on Euronext Brussels, first international people identification project: enrolment of citizens and issuing of voting cards for DRC (UN contract).
  • 2006: Acquisition of Powersys, Peak Europe, Vocognition, iDoc and metaform.
  • 2007: Acquisition if Interscan and MD
  • 2009: Acquisition of Bopack systems and ImageID
  • 2010: Acquisition of Phidata BV and 51% of Netwave
  • 2011: Acquisition of Anvos, Integra, RFidea and Proscan
  • 2013: Acquisition of InCAPTIO (formerly known as GATC s.r.o.)
  • 2016: Panasonic acquires 50.95% stake in Zetes Industries

    • Local presence

    Zetes has office in Belgium, Côte d'Ivoire, Czech Republic, Denmark, Gambia, Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom

    References

    Zetes (company) Wikipedia
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