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Milestone appoints
VP of Corporate Products
Copenhagen, Denmark
Milestone Systems has hired
Bjorn Skou Eilertsen as Vice Pre-
sident for the company's recently
established Corporate Products
business unit, responsible for
large and high-complexity sur-
veillance solutions.
"Milestone Systems has
achieved formidable growth in
its first 14 years to be a leader in
a market where the customers'
needs are constantly changing.
I look forward to doing my part
to keep us ahead of the competi-
tion," says Eilertsen, VP of the
Milestone Systems Corporate
Products business unit. "My
primary task is to manage con-
tinued developments for our
high-end products designed for
more complex needs and larger
customers, to ensure that our
software best fulfills their requi-
rements. Organisationally I will
focus on leveraging coordination
between R & D, marketing and
sales to work toward our shared
goals."
Eilertsen has more than a do-
zen years of experience as a ma-
nager of product development,
sales, marketing and business
operations, demonstrating that
he is a solid strategist who can
develop new concepts and create
growth while being an empat-
hetic leader. Most recently he
was the manager of Microsoft's
Dynamics CRM business division
in Western Europe where he was
responsible for the partner chan-
nel, sales, marketing and product
management.
John Blem, Chief Product
Officer and Founder of Milestone
Systems, is pleased that Eilert-
sen has joined the company as
part of its continued expansions:
"With Bjorn's passion for soft-
ware, strong background in the
IT industry and innate skills
for growing business, he is the
perfect person to help implement
our new strategy. This involves
more input from our partners in
the development process so we
can be better than ever at tailo-
ring our products, marketing and
sales to their differing needs and
those of the customers."
Bjorn Skou Eilertsen.
Dallmeier to open new Vegas unit
Fort Lauderdale, Fl (USA)
Dallmeier Electronic USA, Inc.
has opened new facilities in Las Ve-
gas. Headquartered in Fort Laud-
erdale Florida, Dallmeier has made
a significant investment expanding
its operations to Las Vegas.
The new facilities will house
Dallmeier's entire west coast staff,
its warehousing operations, sales,
service, training and logistics.
"We are very excited to expand
our operations here to Nevada,"
said Joe McDevitt, president of
Dallmeier USA. "This expansion
shows our commitment to the
casino surveillance market and will
allow us to better serve our Las
Vegas and West Coast customers."
Assa acquires 4Front
Stockholm, Sweden and Carrollton, Tx (USA)
Assa Abloy
has acquired the US
company 4Front, a leading com-
pany offering a complete product
range around docking systems as
well as a large variety of accessories.
"4Front, with its leading
brands, is yet another strategic
entry to the important North
American market in entrance au-
tomation. I welcome this addition
that further reinforces the Assa
Abloy Group's leadership in en-
trance automation, growing from
SEK 3 billion in 2008 to more
than SEK 12 billion proforma in
2012," commented Johan Molin,
President and CEO of Assa Abloy.
"The acquisition of 4Front is
a great addition to our growing
portfolio of docking systems and
adds also strongly to our position
in the indirect channel of entrance
automation products. 4Front has
a strong market position, excellent
products and a very experienced
organisation. We look forward to
developing the US and other mar-
kets together with the 4Front team,"
commented Juan Vargues, Executive
Vice President of Assa Abloy and
Head of Division Entrance Systems.
The company was founded in
1953 and is based in Carrollton,
Texas with operations in USA,
Canada, Mexico and India. The
company has 750 employees.
Sales for 2012 are expected to
reach USD 165 M.
The deal was closed simultane-
ously with signing on December
24, 2012.
Johan Molin,
President and
CEO of
Assa Abloy.
Gunnebo wins Chennai metro contract
Chennai, India
Gunnebo Security Group
has,
through its subsidiary Gunnebo
India, signed an order with Chen
nai Metro Corporation
to supply
entrance control solutions for one
of its new lines.
According to Gunnebo it is
their reputation for supplying reli-
able and durable entrance control
solutions to the metro sector
around the globe which helped
Gunnebo India secure the order.
The initial order amounts to
over 200,000 EUR and consists of
flap-gate units to metro gates to be
supplied over the coming months.
The order will be produced and
supplied from Gunnebo's Chinese
factory in Kunshan.
"This order is of great strategic
importance for Gunnebo since
it establishes us as a provider of
entrance control solutions to the
Indian metro sector," comments
Gunnebo's President and CEO,
Per Borgvall. "Over the coming
two to three years we expect many
important infrastructure projects
to be carried out in India, includ-
ing several large metro projects."
The solution ordered by
Chennai Metro Corporation was
initially designed for the KCRC
metro system in Hong Kong.
Since then it has been installed in
multiple high-volume, mass-tran-
sit networks in China as well as in
several other countries including
Singapore, Sweden, Spain and
Colombia.
Per Borgvall,
President
and CEO of
Gunnebo.
Suprema wins biometric E-Passport project in Mexico
Seoul, Korea
Suprema Inc
has won a nation-
wide electronic passport project
contracted by the Government of
Mexico.
The project, steered by Secre-
taria de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE,
Ministry of Exterior) of Mexico, is
aimed to develop a passport issuing
system for 2.7 million electronic
passports across all 32 states in
Mexico including the Federal
District of Mexico City.
With the initial shipment, Su-
prema has supplied over 500 units
of biometric and passport issuing
devices, namely, the Realpass-V
electronic passport reader, the Re-
alscan-10 live scanner and Biomini
fingerprint scanners. Furthermore,
SRE has a plan to expand this
newly-developed electronic pass-
port issuing system to its overseas
Mexican embassies and in new
offices yet to be opened in Mexico.
The Realscan-10 fingerprint
live scanner which captures
imprints of 4-fingers and two-
thumbs, replaces SRE's existing
single-finger readers to improve
capturing speed and image quality
of fingerprints.
In addition,
the Realpass-V
passport read-
er provides a
higher level
of security
on issuance
of electronic
passports and
the Biomini fingerprint scanner
enables biometric sign-on using
pre-registered fingerprint at SRE's
nationwide passport issuance
stations.