August 2008
MaxBox confirm Caribbean kiosk deal
worth over $6.5m
The MaxBox push for international expansion continues apace as they sign up Advanced Integrated Systems in Jamaica as exclusive distributors for the Caribbean and they place their first order for 300 kiosks.
The three year distribution deal with Jamaica based Advanced Integrated Systems (AIS) gives the company exclusive rights for distribution of MaxBox digital retail kiosks and all of its applications across the whole of the Caribbean.
AIS will initially focus on Jamaica to deploy the first order of 300 MaxBox kiosks, capitalising on the long standing links they already have with Jamaican companies across all business sectors – including government, retail, tourism and banking. They then plan to expand into other parts of the Caribbean.
Both companies are raring to go with the new deal and the AIS project team from Jamaica will be joining MaxBox in Cheshire in September for an intensive training and development session on software/hardware and application development and marketing of the MaxBox.
Stacey Halsall-Peart, Chief Operating Officer AIS
“We are very excited about achieving the official exclusive distributorship in the Caribbean for MaxBox. We firmly believe that with our existing government, tourism, banking and retail clients AIS will be able to offer another great solution to our clients for either sales or data capture. AIS specialise in putting together IT solutions and MaxBox now gives the opportunity for communication directly with the consumer, not just business to business. The initial order of 300 kiosks will get us started with our immediate clients, but we can really see this taking off in the Caribbean and hope to have 500 placed before Christmas”
MaxBox Digital Retail already deploy their touch screen digital retail kiosks across the UK and Ireland in retail, leisure, corporate workplace and transport sectors and with the help of partner distributors TCSJOHNHUXLEY have this year started to hit the casino and gaming sector worldwide. Deployment into the Caribbean augments MaxBox’s worldwide distribution push.
Andy Egan, Chairman and CEO MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd
“This latest distribution deal fills another gap for us in our worldwide distribution network, we are making good headway with the distribution deals we signed earlier in the year to hit the casino and gaming sectors and also into the retail sector in Ireland, and this new deal in the Caribbean gives us a really exciting new dimension to our business.”
May 2008
MaxBox shows at Kiosk Europe Expo, Germany
The MaxBox digital retail kiosk made appearance at the Kiosk Europe Expo in Essen Germany last week on the IBM partners stand. As always the digital retail kiosk was a great favourite with show visitors and enquiries came in from countries as far flung as Singapore, Kuwait and America, as well as across Europe.
Chairman and CEO of MaxBox Digital Retail, Andy Egan, was delighted with the response: “We were really encouraged by feedback from the show, particularly during this period where we are opening up our distribution network overseas. We have a busy few weeks ahead of us as we chase it all up”
Along with other industry experts Simonetta Carbonaro, (CEO REAL_ISE), Stephen Giordano (CEO Lucidiom) and Uwe Gericke (Fujitsu), Andy Egan took part in a Self Service panel workshop in the conference entitled
‘How to Manage a Successful Self-Service Project’.
To download Andy’s presentation
How to Avoid Expensive Mistakes with K Commerce
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Click here to link to Expo site
www.kioskeurope-expo.com
March 2008
MaxBox goes global
MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd, developers of the MaxBox digital retail kiosk, have signed a deal with TCSJOHNHUXLEY Europe, one of the largest solutions providers to the international casino, gaming and betting industry, to be their exclusive Sales and Marketing Representative within the worldwide gaming sector for the MaxBox kiosk and its associated products and services.
Under the terms of the three year agreement TCSJOHNHUXLEY Europe will be targeting the distribution and placement of a minimum of 5,000 MaxBox kiosks to its gaming client base worldwide.
The MaxBox digital retail kiosk vends a range of ‘off the shelf’ digital retail services including mobile top-up, jukebox, digital printing, premiership football team photos, mobile phone content download, games and music download and also works with clients to create bespoke applications.
MaxBox are already responding to demand from TCS customers by developing a customised ‘through the wall’ kiosk to help combat the impact of the revenue loss from the smoking ban. The new secure ‘through the wall’ MaxBox kiosk is designed to keep customers entertained and engaged whilst on smoking breaks outside the building, allowing them to play games, check out club and online promotions, sign up for associated club membership and use the other MaxBox digital retail services.
Andrew Davies, Commercial Development Manager of TCSJOHNHUXLEY, is particularly excited by the flexibility of the MaxBox offering:
“I have always been a fan of the MaxBox because it instantly provides incremental revenue opportunities for clients. Now we have MaxBox in our portfolio we will be able to develop bespoke applications on the kiosks for our clients including games, membership sign up and other applications that may be required to meet the needs of their own business in a fast moving and ever changing market place, including the ‘through the wall’ kiosk to keep customers engaged while they are away from the tables or other gaming or betting activities”
This new deal with TCSJOHNHUXLEY comes hot on the heels of a UK service and installation contract between the two companies which was signed at the ATEi trade show in January. The service and installation agreement will see TCSJOHNHUXLEY providing full operational and service support to MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd on their existing estate of UK based MaxBox kiosks and any future installations across the UK. It is anticipated that this agreement will become fully international within the next few months to take advantage of TCS’s global infrastructure.
Andy Egan, Chairman and CEO of MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd, “This new alliance with TCS really strengthens our proposition both from an operational and logistics point of view and also in our capability to ramp up our deployment. We are already making significant inroads into the retail, leisure and corporate sector with our MaxBox kiosks and with TCSJOHNHUXLEY onside we can expand quickly into the gaming sector”
The TCS deal for deployment of 5,000 MaxBox kiosks is announced only weeks after MaxBox signed up a 1,000 kiosk distribution deal with Cyberhut concentrating on the retail sector in Northern and Southern Ireland and is a further consolidation of MaxBox Digital Retail’s plans for worldwide deployment of their kiosks over the next 3 years
About TCSJOHNHUXLEY
TCSJOHNHUXLEY delivers profitable solutions to international casino operators through the most comprehensive and complete portfolio of products. Its total turnkey solutions are backed by unrivalled levels of service and support. From tables to roulette wheels, chipping machines and table displays to electronic gaming – TCSJOHNHUXLEY’s world famous products form the foundation of every casino.
With strategically based offices throughout the world TCSJOHNHUXLEY provides personal after-sales service along with quality technical support that is second to none. From state-of-the–art manufacturing facilities, such as Stoke-Upon-Trent in the United Kingdom and Las Vegas in the United States, modern procurement, processes and equipment provide the formula for the TCSJOHNHUXLEY standard.
www.tcsjohnhuxley.com
Andy Egan and British Olympic Appeal
Andy Egan has recently been invited to join the British Olympic Association Appeal 2008 as a council member. The British Olympic Association (BOA) receives no government or lottery funding and depends heavily on the Fundraising Appeal.
It costs BOA approximately £18,000 to support each athlete and 100% of the funds raised goes directly towards ensuring that the sportsmen and women arriving in Beijing will be able to compete on equal terms with the best in the world.
January 2008
MaxBox expands into Ireland
MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd loses no time in ramping up for 2008 as it signs an exclusive kiosk distribution deal with Cyberhut.
Under the terms of the distribution deal, which was signed last week at the ATEi/ICE trade show in Earl’s Court, Cyberhut Ltd have committed to a 3 year exclusivity contract to distribute a minimum of 1,000 MaxBox digital retail kiosks across northern and southern Ireland.
Cyberhut will be focussing on the retail sector in Ireland and the MaxBox kiosks will access the full range of MaxBox digital retail services including mobile top-up with all networks, digital printing, ordering of flowers and hampers, mobile phone content download, football photos as well as converting all host venues into a Wi-Fi hotspot. Music Download will also be added later in the year along with the facility to vend pre-paid money cards and loyalty cards direct from the kiosk.
The MaxBox will be the first kiosk in Ireland able to vend pre-paid money cards and loyalty cards and this new facility will give the retailer a mechanic to build customer loyalty as well as increase footfall into store.
Ben Keohane, MD of Cyberhut Ltd is very excited by the MaxBox offering and what it can do for the Irish retail sector “When I first saw the MaxBox what really hit me was that I could provide all my retailers with an instant fast track access to a broad range of queue busting customer services and incremental revenue streams, all in one square meter of floor space. There isn’t anything like it so far in Ireland and it’s an offer that Irish retailers can’t wait to get their hands on”
Andy Egan, Chairman and CEO of MaxBox Digital Retail, is thrilled at the timing of the new deal; “We have been working on the detail of this distribution deal with Cyberhut over a few months, so it is even more gratifying to be able to confirm the deal now under our newly branded company MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd. In 2008 we have plans to expand across the UK and into Europe, and our partnership with Cyberhut will help us to make significant inroads into this target”
About MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd
MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd is an aggregator and software developer of digital based leisure, entertainment and retail content which is vended over its own estate of MaxBox kiosks.
MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd also licenses its content to other broadband enabled kiosks and devices.
The company also offers bespoke kiosk and self service design and content solutions to meet specific business needs. MaxBox kiosks are placed in retail, leisure, transport and corporate environments.
About Cyberhut Ltd
Providers of automated and staffless internet terminals to the retail sector. www.cyberhut.ie
MaxBox – He liked it so much….
he bought back the company!!
MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd launches
at ATEi/ICE 2008, 22nd to 24th Jan
Andy Egan, the ideas man behind the iconic MaxBox digital retail kiosk, gives a roaring kick start to 2008 with a newly branded company.
Andy, founder of Felix Corporation Ltd and Felix Group plc bought back the company from the administrators on 11th January and will be celebrating the rebrand to MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd at ATEi/ICE Earls Court, January 2008.
Andy and his team will be exhibiting the latest kiosk in the MaxBox stable - the US built MaxBox Americano - on the TCS John Huxley stand in ICE on stand number 3000.
Andy Egan is looking forward to taking advantage of the opportunities created in 2007 and moving ahead for a successful 2008: “I was very frustrated and disappointed about what happened at Felix Group but I firmly believe in the MaxBox business models that my colleagues and I were rolling out. I have been delighted with the response both corporately and personally to the announcement that I am back with MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd to finish what I started, to make MaxBox the pre eminent supplier of kiosk solutions and leader in the digital retail market”
Ends
For further info about MaxBox kiosks, digital retail, bespoke kiosk design, digital content licensing, MaxBox lite and for interviews and photography contact Jill Taylor at MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd 01565 831100. Jill@themaxbox.com