Canadian Bank Note Wins Again In The Middle East.Business Editors OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. !3, 2001 Canadian Bank Note Company The Canadian Bank Note Company is responsible for printing the paper currency of Canada. It also prints and provides document reading systems for identification cards, lottery tickets, stamps and notes for other countries, and many other security-conscious printing-related services. , Limited (CBN CBN - call-by-name )(TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :CBK CBK Common Body of Knowledge CBK Commerzbank AG CBK Central Bank of Kuwait CBK Commercial Bank of Kuwait CBK Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse CBK Campus Beiaard Kring CBK Cannabis-Bundeskonferenz (Germany) .) announced the recent signing of a contract for the supply of more than 1,000 of its "Falcon" full-page travel document readers to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The devices will speed up the entry process for millions of pilgrims who visit the country's Holy Sites for the Hajj hajj (häj), the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, one of the five basic requirements (arkan or "pillars") of Islam. Its annual observance corresponds to the major holy day id al-adha, pilgrimage each year. In addition, business and tourist visitors will feel the benefits of this Canadian technology as it is applied at the various ports of entry into the Kingdom for the fast and reliable authentication of travel documents. "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a reputation for employing the best and most modern technologies and we are honoured that our 'Falcon' product has been selected as the most sophisticated travel document reader currently available in the market. We were privileged to embark upon our relationship with the Government of Saudi Arabia earlier last year as printers of the newly designed machine readable Saudi Visas and specialized issuance software" said Michael Southwell, CBN's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. The multimillion-dollar contract represents another success for Canadian Bank Note Company, in a year that saw the consolidation of its Identification Systems business unit as a global leader in security solutions. Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. under the symbol CBK. |
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