Evolis is a French company, which develops, manufactures, and sell printers and software for personalized and decentralized printing of plastic cards. Their headquarters and the production facility are located near Angers, France.
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Overview
Evolis was founded in 1999 by Emmanuel Picot, the current CEO, Cécile Bélanger, the current Vice-President, Didier Godard, Yves Liatard and Serge Olivier. All worked previously for a US manufacturer of plastic card printers with operations in France.
In 2005 the company opened a subsidiary in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and in 2006, in Singapore. . Evolis became publicly traded at the Alternext Paris stock exchange, in 2006.
In 2009 the firm opened a sales office in Shanghai, China. In 2012, it acquired Sogedex Accessories based in Trappes, France. The next year, it acquired 70% of the Indian company Rajpurohit Cardtec which became a subsidiary under the name of Evolis India.
During 2014 the firm acquired of Detraplast and integrated it into the production facilities in Beaucouzé. The same year, the firm turned its sales office in Shanghai into a subsidiary called Evolis China.
In 2016, Evolis announced the acquisition of a majority stake in CardPresso, a card design software company. The same year, Evolis announced it had completed installation of 50,000 systems in banks worldwide. In November 2016 the company was awarded a US$1.2 million contract with the Social Security department of Shandong, China to produce combination debit and social security cards. The hardware for the project is planned to be manufactured in Beaucouzé, and deployed some time in December.
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Portfolio
Evolis' provides card printers, software, signature pads, ID accessories and services. Previous clients have included the French supermarket Intermarché, the RATP public transit service in Paris, voting cards for Tanzania, health insurance cards for Poland, and accreditation badges for the Cannes Film Festival.
As of October 2016, the company had sold 370,000 printers in 140 countries.
Subsidiaries
Evolis owns 7 subsidiaries:
- Evolis Inc., in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
- Evolis Asia Pte. Ltd in Singapore
- Evolis China in Shanghai, China
- Evolis India in Mumbai, India,
- Sogedex Accessoires in Paris, France
- CardPresso in Santo Isidoro, Portugal
- ACTS in Lyon, France
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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