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CBORD Announces Record Results for Second Quarter

Friday, March 12, 2004

The CBORD Group, Inc., the leading provider of cashless and campus card systems, with over 600 installed customers across North America, announced record results for its second fiscal quarter, ending December 31, 2003.  With sales ahead 21% and profits ahead 59% of its record pace the year before, CBORD is enjoying a major growth surge in all markets.


Significant new customer additions for cashless/campus card systems in recent months include The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, St John’s College (MN), United Federation of Teachers,  SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Colorado Mountain College, Northwood University, Wenatchee Valley College, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, Univ. of South Carolina-Spartanburg, and Johnson and Wales University-Denver. [end] 

Thinking of changing your mag stripe campus ID card to contactless? Campus card provider CBORD may be able to help. The company is offering a free webinar March 27 that will enable participants to learn the latest about contactless credentials for colleges and universities.

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Obtaining fake IDs, such as driver licenses, is becoming harder for college students. Not only must they deal with local law enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security can also get involved.

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Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies and the CBORD Group are in the midst of an access control trial at Villanova University in Pennsylvania involving NFC and smart phones.

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If you want to see the NFC pilot project in action at Villanova University, the two partners in the project–Ingersoll Rand and CBORD–have posted a YouTube video giving a brief overview of the test.

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Max Steinhardt, COO for campus card provider CBORD, has been named the company’s new president effective May 1. He succeeds Tim Tighe, who has served as a CBORD executive for more than 25 years.

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The CBORD Group rolled out GET Funds, an online and mobile commerce software application that puts account information in the hands of students wherever mobile smart phone services are available.

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