Fulfilling Our Responsibility toward the Disabled.

For Wincor Nixdorf, social commitment includes supporting those with disabilities. We are involved in a number of international projects together with charitable organizations to help train physically and mentally disabled people, facilitate their access to the labor market and support them through the exchange of information. In France, for instance, we continued our involvement in a charitable project that provides kiosk terminals equipped with specific functions.

When designing products and systems, we ensure that they are both functional and suitable for the disabled. In the area of banking, for example, disabled people using our technology are able to manage their banking tasks on their own thanks to ergonomically designed and internationally standardized keys and controls, voice-driven menus, large numeric keys with special embossed characters and ATMs that can be operated from a wheelchair.

Specifically, we are working with the German Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired (DBSV) on a project to standardize all our ATMs in such a way that blind and visually impaired customers can easily perform their own cash transactions using self-service systems (Glossary) . All of these systems comply with international standards for ergonomic design.

For many years, Wincor Nixdorf has been actively involved in social projects in and around Paderborn, where the Group’s head office is located. In the year under review, the Company once again made funding available for charitable purposes. We contributed money raised together with our employees on “Families’ Day” to selected social projects as a way of providing effective and unbureaucratic help.

The Company also continued to support a number of initiatives on behalf of the disabled. For example, we participated in a joint project with Caritas that enables disabled people to perform simple tasks on our production line. While some of these people are employed on site, most of them are based at the local workshop for disabled people in Paderborn. Furthermore, Wincor Nixdorf has set up other projects that allow disabled persons to carry out tasks at a range of workplaces.

Business Taking Responsibility.

Together with 19 other German companies, Wincor Nixdorf recently signed the Business Taking Responsibility” charter promoted by Germany’s Federal Network for Civic Involvement (Bundesnetzwerk Bürgerschaftliches Engagement – BBE). The aim is to further strengthen the commitment of German companies to positive civic action and to enhance public awareness of their involvement. Signatories to the charter promise to support civic projects and to attract other companies to join them.