EANS-News: Identive Group Inc. / Identive announces innovative new inlay manufacturing technology

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Subtitle: SmartCore™ enables unprecedented printability for
contactless ID cards

Santa Ana, Calif. and Wallisellen, Switzerland - October 17, 2011
(euro adhoc) - Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV), a
provider of products, services and solutions for the identification,
security and RFID industries, today announced an innovative
breakthrough in RFID inlay manufacturing technology. The Company´s
patent-pending SmartCore technology produces RFID core-inlays
enabling unprecedented printability for contactless ID and access
cards, with a thinner profile than traditional inlay designs.

An inlay is a thin material substrate incorporating a microchip
bonded to an antenna, and functions as the heart of an RFID (radio
frequency identification) credential such as a smartag, label,
sticker or card. Contactless RFID technology is rapidly replacing
traditional machine-readable identification technologies in numerous
applications, offering substantially enhanced security and
convenience.

Werner Vogt, Managing Director of Identive´s Multicard Switzerland
and principal inventor of SmartCore commented, "SmartCore leverages
Identive`s proprietary antenna and inlay designs as well as
manufacturing techniques invented by our team and honed over many
years. The unparalleled technique of Identive´s SmartCore inlay
eliminates the bumps and irregular patterns found in most contactless
cards and enables a perfectly even surface with a uniform thickness
and appearance that consequently allows improved ability to print and
customize electronic ID cards."

"Identive is well established as an inlay manufacture for smartags,
labels and tickets and with this new technology we are now expanding
our range into ID cards and badges," explained Michael Kober,
Managing Director of Transponders for Identive. "The special design
of our SmartCore inlay offers partners more flexibility, more
durability and ultimately a lower cost of implementation for
contactless cards for employee ID, facility access and other
applications."

Identive will showcase its new SmartCore technology in November at
the ID WORLD International Congress in Milan, Italy and at the annual
CARTES & IDentification exhibition in Paris, France. Initial orders
for SmartCore inlays already have been booked and delivered and
Identive is currently installing new SmartCore production
capabilities at its Wallisellen plant that are expected to be fully
operational in early 2012.

About Identive Group Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt:
INV) is focused on building the world´s signature company in Secure
ID. The company´s products, software, systems and services address
the markets for identity management, physical and logical access
control, NFC and a host of RFID-enabled applications for customers in
the government, enterprise, consumer, education, healthcare and
transportation sectors. Identive´s mission is to build a lasting
business of scale and technology based on a combination of strong
technology-driven organic growth and disciplined acquisitive
expansion. For additional info visit: www.identive-group.com.

NOTE: SmartCore is a trademark of Identive Group, Inc.

Further inquiry note:
Frau Annika Oelsner
Tel.: +49 89 9595-5220
E-Mail: aoelsner@identive-group.com

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company: Identive Group Inc.
Carnegie Ave., Bldg. B 1900
US-CA 92705 Santa Ana
phone: +1 949 553 4280
FAX: +49 89 9595-5555
mail: investorrelations@identive-group.com
WWW: http://www.identive-group.com
sector: Computing & Information Technology
ISIN: US45170X1063
indexes: NASDAQ
stockmarkets: Nasdaq: New York, free trade: Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart,
Düsseldorf, München, Open Market / Entry Standard: Frankfurt
language: English