Wincor Nixdorf expands its retail IT business in Canada

Wincor Nixdorf has acquired a controlling interest in Connections Canada Inc. (CCi), effective May 1. With its 51 percent stake in the retail IT company, Wincor Nixdorf aims to expand its sales in the Canadian market.  Under the umbrella of the Wincor Nixdorf Group, CCi will continue its expansion with the current management team. The Toronto-based company, established in 1987, has more than 100 staff either employed or as partners. It is one of the market leaders in the Canadian market for automated retail solutions. 
CCI’s current offer includes the sales and service of POS solutions, the integration of retail software solutions and the implementation of broadband-based network solutions. 
In addition to its home market in Canada, CCi has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and Malaysia. Both will be linked to existing local Wincor Nixdorf subsidiaries. In the future, CCi Canada will operate under the name “CCi – A Wincor Nixdorf Company.” 
“In past years, CCi has developed an excellent market position with high customer intimacy and has a proven management team to continue the company’s success,” said Dr. Herbert Machill, Senior Vice President of Global Retail Solutions at Wincor Nixdorf.
“Through the cooperation with Wincor Nixdorf, we gain access to a broad range of products and the know-how of a market leader,” says CCi’s President Greg Woods. “This will allow us to expand our solutions-based offer to support both existing and new customers even more effectively than we have in the past.”
About Wincor Nixdorf
Wincor Nixdorf is one of the world’s leading providers of IT solutions to retailers and retail banking. The company’s extensive portfolio is centered around optimizing business processes at banks and retail companies. It is aimed mainly at cutting costs and complexity and improving service to the end customer. Wincor Nixdorf leverages know-how from its core business with banks and retailers to diversify into related sectors. These include postal, lottery companies and  service station chain operators. Over half of the workforce is employed outside of Germany and a fifth in the Asia/Pacific/Africa region.
Wincor Nixdorf has a presence in approximately 100 countries around the world, thereof now in 41 with own subsidiary companies. A total of about 9 400 employees work for the Group. The company is the leader in Europe and the number 3 in the world for programmable electronic POS systems (EPOS) and the number 2 worldwide for automated teller machines. Main production facilities are located at Paderborn, Singapore, Shanghai and Sao Paolo.