EANS-News: Hoeft & Wessel: Successful delivery of 149 parking machines to the Isle of Wight

Metric bolsters its leading position in UK

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Subtitle: Metric bolsters its leading position in UK

Swindon, UK / Hanover, Germany, 14/12/2010. (euro adhoc) - The
parking machine manufacturer Metric, located in Swindon west of
London, has completed the supply and installation of pay and display
terminals to the Isle of Wight. With the latest type of the proven
Aura series, equipped with payWaveTM as well as chip and PIN, the
customer can also pay conveniently with cards. The Isle of Wight
Council is able to remotely monitor and audit all machines from their
central office via the Metric web based back-office system ASLAN. For
the operator, the management of all 149 kiosks is now more efficient,
faster and more reliable.

Mark Downer, the Island´s External Operations Manager (Parking
Services), said there had been an `exceptionally good dialogue´ with
Metric throughout the project. "Metric also worked incredibly quickly
to complete the installation in five weeks."

He went on: "One of the objectives behind this new installation is to
make our parking supervisors operationally more efficient. The
networking of the machines will allow us to have sophisticated
reports so that supervisors can be more proactive because they will
know of an event before it happens."

86 parking machines have been installed off street with four located
in the Island´s largest car park, which has 250 spaces. More than
half of all installed machines are solar powered.

This new customer enables Metric to bolster its leading position in
the British parking segment.

Hoeft & Wessel´s subsidiary Metric is one of the largest global
providers of car park ticket vending machines, parking space
management systems as well as comprehensive services.

www.metricgroup.co.uk
www.hoeft-wessel.com

Press folder: http://www.presseportal.de/pm/12945/hoeft_wessel_ag/

About the company The Hoeft & Wessel Group is the leading IT and
engineering technology group for ticketing, parking and mobile
solutions in Germany and Great Britain. Founded in 1978 by the two
entrepreneurs of the same name, the company has developed into a
corporate group with sales revenues of nearly EUR 100 million and a
workforce of 500 employees. Its headquarters are Hanover, Germany,
and Swindon, UK, to the west of London.

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Further inquiry note:

Arnd Fritzemeier

Tel.: +49-511-6102-300

E-Mail: PR@hoeft-wessel.com

Branche: Technology
ISIN: DE0006011000
WKN: 601100
Index: TecDAX, Prime All Share, Technology All Share
Börsen: Frankfurt / regulated dealing/prime standard
Berlin / free trade
Hamburg / free trade
Stuttgart / free trade
Düsseldorf / free trade
Hannover / free trade
München / free trade