EANS-News: Identive Group Inc. / Identive Announces Increase in Transponder, NFC Orders

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SANTA ANA, Calif. and ISMANING, Germany, October 2, 2012 (euro adhoc)
- Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt: INV), a provider of
products and services for the identification, security and RFID
industries, today announced that it has received new customer orders
for more than 20 million radio frequency identification (RFID)
transponder products, including over 15 million near field
communication (NFC) transponders. The orders represent large
contracts with customers in the US, Europe and Asia and are due for
delivery over the next six months.

"We are very pleased with the uptick in volume of our transponder
orders, which represents a 33% increase over our average quarterly
production for 2012 to date. Having these orders already in place for
Q4 and Q1 points to a recovery in demand for our transponder products
in general and a strong increase in demand for innovative NFC
applications," said Dr. Manfred Mueller, executive vice president and
COO Identification Products for Identive. Mueller continued, "As
previously announced, we are bringing additional production capacity
on line in our Singapore plant during Q4, which we expect will
accommodate this growing demand."

Identive offers the world's broadest range of NFC transponders,
readers and reader modules including full tagging solutions and
web-based personalization capabilities to address applications for
payment, mobility, ticketing, retail and more. For more information
visit www.identivenfc.com.

About Identive 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,
cashless payment, NFC solutions and a host of RFID-enabled
applications for customers in the government, enterprise, consumer,
education and healthcare 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. The company delivers up-to-date information on its
activity as well as industry trends through its industry-leading
social media initiatives and educational resource, AskIdentive.com.
For additional information, please visit www.identive-group.com or
follow on Twitter at @IdentiveGroup.

Further inquiry note:
Mr. Lennart Streibel
Tel.: +49 89 9595-5195
E-Mail: lstreibel@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
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