April 9, 2002
NetShift has officially opened a North American office with the assimilation of the Cybertotems'North American team under the NetShift banner. With an experienced team of professionals already in place, NetShift has a ready‑made beachhead for its push into the US markets."urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Due to a strategic realignment, Cybertotems has decided to withdraw from the US market, whereas Netshift, recipient of a recent multi-million dollar investment from Shell Internet Ventures, plans to expand aggressively into the North American market and has committed to hiring the entire Cybertotems team, led by Bob Gallner, previously VP of sales for Cybertotems. Netshift will continue expanding its North American customer base in keeping with the company's policy of engaging customers more directly to ensure success of their public access technology deployments.
Nigel Seed, Chairman and CEO of NetShift said, "The team in place has proven market experience and commitment to NetShift's policy of ensuring that we deliver cost effective kiosk networks with a tangible ROI. By ensuring the NetShift US operation continues to deliver business benefits to our customers, we look forward to increasing our global leadership with further penetration of the US."
Bob Gallner, Head of NetShift US Operations said, "The entire team here in the US is very excited about contributing to NetShift's success. We will continue to be based in Miami, and look forward to continuing our dialogue with current customers on the NetShift product range under the NetShift banner."
About NetShift
NetShift is among the leading solution providers of public access/self service kiosk technology in the world. With a deployed base in over 70 countries, NetShift and its global network of resellers are providing solutions and professional services to organisations producing and operating kiosks, ATM's, multimedia payphones, gaming devices and many other self service devices. NetShift solutions are available for individual devices and networks of thousands of devices for information (route planning, tourist information, museum guides etc.), communication (Internet, email, vmail, SMS, telephony etc.) and entertainment (gambling terminals, fun games, online tournaments etc.). NetShift solutions can be seen in leading organisations worldwide in markets as diverse as eGovernment (City Of Rhode Island, Library Of Congress, UK Post Office), Retail (IBM, Macy's), Transport & Tourism (Ordnance Survey Mapping, UK National Trust), Financial Services (Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab, HSBC, JP Morgan), Hospitality (Marriott Hotels, Hilton Hotels, Hyatt Hotels), Telecoms (Cable & Wireless, France Telecom) and much more.
See http://www.netshift.com for further details.
For further information, please contact: John Purcell, VP Marketing, NetShift, Kennet Side, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 5PX, UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 1635 568800 Fax: +44 (0) 1635 568850
e-mail: john.purcell@netshift.com
Web site: www.netshift.com
Press enquiries to: Tim Jennings or Neil Marshall, Marshall Jennings PR Limited, Wyvols Court, Swallowfield, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 1WY, UK.
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