EANS-News: Identive Group Inc. / Multicard to Hold Customer/Partner Seminar on Emerging Business Uses for NFC Technology on October 23 in Lausanne

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SION-LAUSANNE-ZURICH, Switzerland, October 19, 2012 (euro adhoc) -
Multicard, a leading supplier of identity management and credential
solutions as well as system integration services, and a business unit
of Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV), invites its
customers and partners to attend an afternoon seminar on October 23,
2012 to learn about near field communication (NFC) technology - what
it is, what makes it so exciting, and how business, education and
other sectors can benefit from its use. The seminar will take place
from 15:30 - 17:30 CET in room ODY4 03 of the Odyssea Bâtiment
technology center of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL).

NFC technology pioneer and specialist, Mr. Mathew Smith, Vice
President Product & Technology for Identive, will discuss how NFC
works and how the combination of NFC with smartphones will change
society, business and our daily activities. Mr. Smith's presentation
will be augmented with live demonstrations of Identive's range of NFC
products and solutions and how these can help create better and more
effective engagement with customers, clients and other constituents.

To register for the seminar, please contact Mr. Thierry Gattlen at
info@polyright.com.

About Multicard

Multicard, a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE;
Frankfurt: INV), is a worldwide supplier of card solutions for secure
identification programs, with in?house capabilities for credential
issuance, personalization and fulfillment services for the consumer,
government, education, healthcare and corporate markets. Multicard
offers ID systems management and engineering services as well as full
implementation and program management. Multicard also is a provider
of enrollment, emergency management and accreditation solutions using
data capture equipment for ePassport and other government ID and
corporate ID applications. For additional information, visit
www.multicard.com.

Identive Group, Inc. is a leading provider of products, services and
solutions for the security, identification and RFID industries. For
more information, please visit www.identive?group.com.

Further inquiry note:
Multicard:
Thierry Gattlen, +4127 303 50 00, thierry.gattlen@polyright.com

Identive Group:
Darby Dye, +1 949 553-4251, ddye@identive-group.com
Lennart Streibel, +49 89 9595-5195, 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
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