ZETES ANNUAL REPORT 2013 | CREATING TOMORROW BY INVESTING TODAY
"OF COURSE WE BELIEVE IN THE FUTURE, WE’RE BUSY BUILDING IT"
Customers, employees and shareholders all play their part in Zetes' innovation process. Our investments reflect a vision of the future. To remain among the best, we don’t improvise our future, we build it.
What’s more important to any State than its citizens? And more precious for a company than its products or production equipment? They cannot risk losing sight of what is most dear to them. For the past 30 years, Zetes has placed its entire expertise at the disposal of customers, enabling them to trace goods and identify people, by linking the physical and virtual worlds. Innovation is born of the exchange of knowledge Customers have a multitude of different needs: data integrity and protection, increased quality and productivity, improved flow management. On top of this, they need systems that are easy to use, requiring a high level of complexity and sophistication from the outset. Over the years, our teams have developed unrivalled reserves of experience. They know our customers' processes. They understand the challenges they face. They have also mastered proven technologies and are keen to investigate emerging ones. It is through this mixture of expertise that Zetes’ solutions are constantly born. They respond to evolving needs and ever increasing demands, whether regulatory or otherwise. During the past year, Zetes has increased its development efforts in both Goods and People ID in order to provide increasingly specific responses to the needs of the markets it serves. Developing solutions today that our customers will need tomorrow In Goods ID, the requirement for by-unit identification is spreading. For the past few years, an increasing number of economic sectors like the pharmaceuticals industry and the luxury sector, and more recently agro-food, have had recourse to introduce
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Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Shareholders,
"It is its customers who are carrying Zetes forward by pushing our teams to excel and find an outstanding response to their challenges."
serialization, which exponentially increases the quantity of data to be recorded in the databases of supply chain stakeholders. Zetes provides a targeted response for each stakeholder. Recently it has developed the concept of a collaborative supply chain and provided tools for sustaining it. The resulting data repository enables data on goods produced, stored or transported to be gathered and for access to supply chain stakeholders concerned to be provided in a totally secure setting. This is not simply a case of replicating existing systems, but developing an integrated solution that the sector can use to solve tomorrow’s challenges and which will create even greater value for the financial stakeholders concerned. The enthusiasm shown by those customers who have already opted to work with Zetes on this initiative clearly demonstrates that this innovation is both necessary and promising for the future of our company. Leadership in one's sector is achieved only at the price of targeted innovation and permanent investment, which Zetes works on continuously. Biometrics and mobile data serving citizen identification In People ID, migratory flows are a driver of prosperity in the world by intensifying exchanges of skills and levelling out age pyramids. But these are possible only under the sovereign control of States, who need to be able to identify their own citizens and control visitors. The rapid increase in