STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 17, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Gunnebo, the global security group, has signed a contract worth more than MEUR 3.3 with Dutch bank ABN AMRO to rebuild and upgrade 550 service boxes.
Six years ago, Gunnebo's wholly owned subsidiary, Rosengrens Martens of Holland, supplied ABN AMRO with 600 service boxes with advanced security technology. Now Gunnebo has signed a contract to upgrade the service boxes and also to connect them to the bank's internal computer system via S@fenet -- a software system designed by Gunnebo specifically for banks and other institutions.
The advantages are considerable:
- The bank knows exactly how much a service box contains and when
it needs to be emptied.
- Cash handling and counting can be outsourced without loss of
control over the cash flow.
- The money becomes more readily available to both the bank and
its customers.
- The emptying of a service box will require only one person as
all deposits are collected in a sack that is sealed before
the service box can be opened.
"Our solution will enable ABN AMRO to further improve the efficiency of its business, and is fully in line with their goal of reducing the amount of cash handling inside the bank," said Rosengrens Martens's president Henk Portegies Zwart. "This upgrading is also a good example of our focus on increasingly sophisticated electronic security solutions."
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For further information, contact: Henk Portegies Zwart, president of Rosengrens Martens +31-20-3 988 988 or +31-6 -11 39 50 59 (mobile) Janerik Dimming, Director of Group Communications, Gunnebo AB 031-83 68 03 or 0705-83 68 03 (mobile) janerik.dimming@gunnebo.se www.gunnebo.se
Gunnebo is today an internationally fast-growing security group with 100 companies located in 30 countries. The Group has sales to a further hundred markets via agents and distributors. Annual turnover amounts to some MSEK 7,000. Gunnebo's security products mainly include fire and burglar resistant safes, security products for banks and cash handling, electronic security systems, fire protection, entrance control and access control, alarm centres, and indoor and outdoor perimeter protection. Gunnebo has at its disposal four of the world's leading brand names in security: Chubb Safes, Fichet-Bauche, Rosengrens and Garny.
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