General description
ZETES INDUSTRIES (Euronext Brussels: ZTS) is a leading pan-European company in the value-added solutions and services industry for Automatic Identification of Goods and People (Goods ID and People ID). Zetes uses both emerging and mature technologies (barcode, voice recognition, RFID, smartcards, biometrics), and develops Solution Architecture Frameworks to optimize the business performance of many customers in many market segments: manufacturing, transportation, logistics, retail, healthcare, finance, telecommunication, government and public services. The Zetes group has its headquarters in Brussels, with subsidiaries in Belgium, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the UK . Zetes currently employs more than 1000 employees and generated consolidated revenues of €216.7 million in 2010.
Developed products
All the software developed and commercialised by Zetes are aimed at building a link between the physical and the digital world. As such, its solutions not only enable the movement of goods and people to be reflected in an organisation’s IT systems, but also enable the instructions issued by these systems to be delivered to operators when they need them. Thus, Zetes’ customers obtain a better visibility of these movements, enabling them to optimise their process management and make better decisions. In the private sector, this kind of optimisation is chiefly – albeit not exclusively – aimed at acquiring a competitive advantage. In public entities, the objective is to uphold the interests of citizens and to better serve the population.
Targets and references
• Manufacturing: BP Oil, Duvel, Virgin, Sun Chemical,…
• Transport & Logistics: Kühne & Nagel, DSV, CEVA, DHL, NPX, Aviapartner
• Pharma: BMS, Merck, PharmaMar, CERP,…
• Postal & courier : CTT, DHL, Chronopost, TNT, …
• Retail : Carrefour, Colruyt, Morrisons, Día, Finiper, Globus,…
• Food & bev / Fresh food: Campofrío, Seachill, Kellogg,…
• Automotive: Doyen Auto, Mitsubishi Caterpillar, Daimler,…
• Governments & agencies: Belgium, Portugal, Israël, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, United Nations, International Monetary Funds,…
Innovative aspects/Advantages
As Zetes is a system integrator, the innovation lays more in our solutions as a whole, in which both software and hardware are being integrated. Each solution is tailored to the customer’s needs. We innovate, on the one hand, by making use of innovative technology (RFID, biometry, image based recognition, etc.) but also by finding new ways of using these as well as more mature data capture technologies (barcodes, voice, etc.). Our wide-ranging knowledge and experience covers the entire supply chain. It enables companies to get overall visibility and control over their processes and to trace their products from manufacturing to final delivery, all through storage and transportation. At the end of the day, companies will benefit from enhanced productivity, less errors and greater customer satisfaction.
