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Kaiser's Tengelmann AG Partners with Euronet's transact Subsidiary for E-Top-up Solutions.


LEAWOOD, Kan.& MUNICH -- Euronet Worldwide's (Nasdaq: EEFT EEFT End-to-End Force Tracking ) subsidiary, transact, today announced the introduction of electronic top-up services to the 750 outlets of Kaiser's Tengelmann AG.

Kaiser's Tengelmann's clients can now access the convenient e-top-up service at more than 3,000 electronic cash registers at all stores of Kaiser's Tengelmann. Prior to the transition to electronic top-up solutions, these stores relied on scratch card scratch card
n.
See scratch ticket.

scratch card scratch ncarte f à gratter 
 distribution.

"We are proud of being the first Retailer-Chain in Germany that fully supports the replacement of physical scratch cards with direct top-up solutions to bring more convenience to our customers," said Jan-Peer Brenneke, head of Category Management Nonfood non·food  
adj.
Of, relating to, or being something that is not food but is sold in a supermarket, as housewares or stationery.
 by Kaiser's Tengelmann AG. "We chose transact as the leading e-top-up processor in Germany, because their sophisticated software was so easy to integrate in our existing cash register environment, and their experience guaranteed a fast implementation of e-top-up at a minimum of cost."

"Kaiser's Tengelmann's decision to partner with transact to transition to the online recharge system, known as Cash & Go, underlines the strong ongoing trend in the prepaid market and transact's leading role in this trend," said Jurgen Platt, transact managing director. "We are proud of implementing again those solutions that are meeting the needs of our customers, especially in those areas, where convenience and speed is the highest priority at the POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET.

(2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak.

POS - point of sale
."

transact adds Kaiser Tenglemann to a prestigious client list of major retailers, such as Shell, DEA DEA - Data Encryption Algorithm , Jet, AGIP, ESSO ESSO Standard Oil
ESSO Enterprise Single Sign-On
ESSO Executive Support Staff Officer
ESSO Eastern States Standard Oil (ExxonMobil)
ESSO Every Saturday and Sunday Off (UK)
ESSO Earth Science Support Office
, Total Fina Elf, PKN Orlen PKN Orlen (Polish: Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen) is a major European oil refiner, and petrol retailer. The company as of June 2006 is Poland's and Central Europe's largest publicly traded firm with major operations in Poland, Czech  and Karstadt. transact also has agreements or top-up supply relationships with all of the large mobile service providers in Germany, including Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2 and E-Plus, as well as with a number of virtual mobile service providers, such as Mobilcom.

About Euronet Worldwide Euronet Worldwide, EEFT (Nasdaq), is the largest independent Automated teller machine (ATM) acquiring network in Central/Eastern Europe.

It was founded in 1994 by brothers-in-law Dan Henry and Mike Brown.

Euronet purchased it's software solutions vendor, Arksys, in 1999.
, Inc. & transact

Euronet Worldwide is an industry leader in providing secure electronic financial transaction solutions. Through its prepaid subsidiaries -- PaySpot, e-pay and transact -- Euronet is the world's largest provider of electronic distribution service, or top-up services, for prepaid mobile airtime. The company has processing centers located in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and processes approximately 20 million electronic top-up transactions per month at more than 168,000 points of sale across 79,000 retailers in ten countries. Euronet also operates the largest independent pan-European ATM network, and the largest shared ATM network in India. With corporate headquarters in Leawood, Kansas, USA, Euronet serves clients in more than 65 countries. For more information, visit the company's website at www.euronetworldwide.com.

transact, a Euronet subsidiary, specializes in payment processing services and software for EFT and prepaid mobile phone This is a method of billing for a mobile phone. Prepaid mobile phones operate by a user’s purchase of mobile services in advance of using them. By purchasing credit to use on a mobile phone network, a user can access a mobile phone network without ongoing billing.  transactions on point of sale (POS) terminals, as well as retailer till systems. Additionally, transact offers a line of proprietary GPRS-based POS terminal products, enabling wireless access in remote locations. For more information, visit the company's website at www.transact-gmbh.de.

About Kaiser's Tengelmann

Kaiser's Tengelmann AG, with its head office in Viersen, is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary

A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock.

Notes:
In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners.
 of the Tengelmann group, based in Mulheim an der Ruhr. Kaiser's Kaffee Geschaft AG, which was originally founded in 1880, was taken over by the group in 1971. As a food retailing concern, they are represented by 750 branches in the four regions of North Rhine, Berlin and surrounding area, Rhine-Main-Neckar and Munich/Oberbayern.

By 1999, the Tengelmann group had united its Kaiser's and Tengelmann chains of supermarkets for organizational purposes. This unification was fully accomplished under company law in May 2001, with the renaming of Kaiser's Kaffee Geschaft AG and Emil Tengelmann GmbH to Kaiser's Tengelmann AG. With over 20,000 employees, Kaiser Tengelmann achieves an annual turnover of EUR EUR

In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro.

Notes:
The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion.
2,500 million.
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