NEC Introduces Retail Solutions into Indonesian market

Posted in News at 04/08/2010 - 10:30

JAKARTA, 4 August, 2010 - NEC Corporation (HQ: Japan), is launching its retail solutions business into the Indonesian market, through its Indonesian subsidiary company - PT NEC Indonesia, at theGrand Hyatt Jakarta today.

With more than a hundred years of innovation and experience in the IT industry and over three decades of experience in the retail domain, NEC continuously strives to develop new technological innovations to empower retailers to optimzie their retail operations with proactive strategizing. It is this driven passion to provide high-quality, robust yet eco-friendly Japanese solutions and the constant innovation that resulted in NEC being the preferred technology partner for leading retailers in the supermarket, departmental store, food and beverages, and hospitality industries globally. Till date, NEC supports approximately 15,000 locally - and globally - linked retail stores across various industries in Japan, US, China, and Southeast Asia, and remains as the leading retail solutions provider in Japan.

Indonesia market was not affected from the global economic slowdown and is experiencing a good year-on-year GDP growth [1]. The Indonesian retail scene has seen substantial growth in the past two years, and it has reached 9.3% on Q1 2010 [2]. Retailers especially convenience stores and hyper-marts, are expanding rapidly throughout the country, especially in major cities like Jakarta. It is thus timely that NEC brings its latest retail point-of-sale (POS) solutions to the retailers in the thriving retail industry in Indonesia.

Mr. Takeshi Tsukamoto, President Director of PT NEC Indonesia, says, "NEC has immense experience in implementing retail solutions for local and global retailers accross vast geographical range. Our seminar today is to showcase to potential retailers our complete suite of end-to-end solutions that are applicable to their businesses. Customers will find our solutions user-friendly and convenient, and will benefit from our expertise in managing their retail operations from the front-end to back-end."

 Currently, 7-Eleven convenienc stores in Indonesia are already using NEC's retail solution. As a strategic technology partner of 7-Eleven International, NEC provides reliable POS systems to support its 24-hour store operations in the United States, Japan, Taiwan, China, and Malaysia. NEC's flagship all-in-one POS terminal - TWINPOS 3500SE, are installed at all 7-Eleven stores in Indonesia, an all-in-one POS system that is easy to use, and reliable even under the harshest retail environment. Besides POS terminals, NEC also provides modular convenience store Information Systems and Implementations that monitors the customer's business growth.

POS (Point of Sales) and mobile devices are some of the flagship products from NEC in the retail solutions segement. With a compact form factor designed to fit within the limited counter space of a retail store, NEC's POS terminals remain as one of the most attractive, robust and efficient solutions in the market. Unique design features such as reliability, scalability, remote access, power efficiency and user friendliness have always been the focus of NEC's POS offerings to improve customer experience.

For more information on NEC's retail solutions, please visit http://www.nec.com/global/solutions/retail-pos/index.html

[1] http://dds.bps.go.id/eng/   BPS-Statistic Indonesia: GDP q-to-q comparing Q4 2009 and Q1 2010 have increased 1.9%, specifically on Agriculture, Financial-Ownership-Business Services, Transportation & Communication, Trade-Hotel-Restaurant.

[2] http://dds.bps.go.id/eng/     BPS-Statistic Indonesia: Table of Growth Rate of Quaterly Gross Domestic Product by Industrial Origin, Trade, Restaurant, and Hotel on 9.3% in Q1 2010

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