Retail industry shows greater interest in innovative checkout concepts. As part of their efforts to optimize and automate branch processes, nearly all the major retail groups throughout the world are looking at new concepts for the checkout area. In Europe especially, Wincor Nixdorf has noted increasing demand for innovative technologies such as self-checkout, different mobile solutions and the integration of cash management solutions into customers’ IT infrastructures. Since the beginning of the current fiscal year, Wincor Nixdorf has been working with its customers to implement tailored solutions for the reorganization of retail branch processes.
Wincor Nixdorf completes major project in postal industry. Wincor Nixdorf continues to pursue a strategy of exploiting opportunities in neighboring sectors such as the postal industry by drawing on its core competences as a solutions provider for the branch operations of banks and retailers. Acting as a general contractor in Germany, for example, Wincor Nixdorf completed a major project to provide IT-based systems for 18,000 postal counter work stations. The package of solutions included planning and coordinating the rollout. Beyond this, the contract includes the provision of ongoing support services over several years.
Annual General Meeting approves dividend/Change in Supervisory Board. At the company’s Annual General Meeting in Paderborn on January 19, 2009, the shareholders of Wincor Nixdorf AG passed all the agenda items with clear majorities, including a profit distribution proposal for fiscal 2007/2008 under which shareholders received a dividend of EUR 2.13 per share on January 20, 2009. The total sum distributed was EUR 67 million. A change in the composition of the Supervisory Board also took effect at the end of the Annual General Meeting. Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem, Director of the Jülich GmbH research centre in Cologne, was elected as a new member of the Supervisory Board to replace Prof. Dr. Walter Kröll, who has retired for reasons of age. The following were re-elected to the Supervisory Board: Hero Brahms and Walter Gunz.
