EANS-News: Hoeft & Wessel receives first contract award in France (with photo)

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Subtitle: Aérolis / Les Cars Air France orders innovative e-Ticketing
system

Hannover/Paris, 11/09/2012. (euro adhoc) - Hoeft & Wessel AG has
received its first order placed in France. The bus company Les Cars
Air France operated by Aérolis, a joint subsidiary of Keolis and Air
France, ordered an innovative e-Ticketing system for its buses in
service between the airports of Paris Charles-de-Gaulles and/or Paris
Orly and the inner city of Paris.

The order placed by Les Cars Air France comprises 55 on-board ticket
vending terminals with ticket printers of the successful almex.optima
series from Hoeft & Wessel. In addition, the order volume includes
the application software and integration into the back-office system.
Rollout and installation will be carried out in two phases; initial
delivery is scheduled for the end of 2012. The final commissioning is
planned for autumn of 2013.

This order will enable Les Cars Air France to have a modern and
efficient ticketing system that will facilitate various forms of
payment ranging from cash all the way through to credit cards. The
system is based on the use of barcodes as well as a cloud
architecture for the recording of fare tickets. For instance, the
on-board terminals can accept both printed e-Tickets from passengers
as well as tickets issued by commercial customers such as airlines
and travel agencies or sales outlets of Les Cars Air France like
hotels, tourism partners and tourism information providers. In
future, it will also be possible to scan the tickets using a smart
phone or tablet PC held up in front of the reader.

"What convinced us beyond the quality of the terminals was the
modular structure of the Almex system and the ability of Hoeft &
Wessel to adapt to our specific requirements," explains Fabrice
Franck, Managing Director at Aérolis.

"This contract award represents the confirmation that we can
perfectly adjust our ticketing systems to the requirements of the
French transport market. In addition to bus systems, in France we
also provide stationary terminals and special mobile ticketing
terminals. I perceive a great deal of potential for our systems in
France," says Michael Hoeft, CEO and founder of Hoeft & Wessel AG,
who is delighted with this development.

>> Contact Hoeft & Wessel in France
Alfred Ndongmeza
Directeur Général France
Phone: +33 (0) 621 896 940
aln@hoeft-wessel.com
www.hoeft-wessel.com

>> Hoeft & Wessel at InnoTrans: hall 2.1, booth 233

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

About Keolis The Keolis Group develops individually tailored mobile
solutions adjusted to take account of any local issues encountered.
The Keolis Group is the public commuter transport leader in France
and a major player in the public transport sector in Europe and
across the globe. Represented in 13 countries, the Group generates
EUR 4.4 billion in sales revenues and has a workforce of 50,150
employees.

About Les Cars Air France Les Cars Air France, a common brand of
Keolis and Air France, provides direct commuter transport between the
airports of Roissy Charles de Gaulle and/or Orly and the inner city
of Paris. The buses are accessible to everyone and are in service 7
days a week between 5:00 a.m. and 11:40 p.m., depending on the line.
4 regular lines travel to 5 stops in the centre of Paris
(Etoile/Champs- Elysées, Porte Maillot, Invalides, Gare de Lyon, Gare
Montparnasse). The buses leave every 15 minutes from Roissy and every
20 minutes from Orly to Paris. Les Cars Air France transports an
average of 2.5 million persons each year with a fleet of 50
comfortable coaches. Further information available at
www.lescarsairfrance.com

About Hoeft & Wessel The Hoeft & Wessel Group is the leading IT and
engineering technology Group for ticketing, parking and mobile
solutions in Germany and Great Britain. Established in 1978 by the
two entrepreneurs who gave the company its name, the enterprise has
developed into a group of companies with sales revenues of approx.
EUR 80 million and a workforce of more than 400 employees. Its main
locations are Hannover, Germany, and Swindon, UK, to the west of
London. www.hoeft-wessel.com

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Further inquiry note:
Arnd Fritzemeier
Tel.: +49-511-6102-300
E-Mail: PR@hoeft-wessel.com

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company: Höft & Wessel AG
Rotenburger Str. 20
D-30659 Hannover
phone: +49-511-6102-0
FAX: +49-511-6102-411
mail: ir@hoeft-wessel.com
WWW: http://www.hoeft-wessel.com
sector: Technology
ISIN: DE0006011000
indexes: Prime All Share, Technology All Share
stockmarkets: free trade: Hannover, Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf,
Stuttgart, regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt
language: English