Boca Raton, Fla. – December 08, 2008 – ADT announced today that BGN (Boekhandels Groep Nederland), the Netherlands’ largest book retailer, has deployed a Sensormatic item-level intelligence solution to support dramatic improvements in efficiencies and sales. Powered by Vue Technology’s TrueVUE™ RFID platform, the Sensormatic solution provides BGN with item-level visibility across its chain. In fact, BGN has increased inventory visibility from 65% to 97.5%. It also has increased inventory accuracy to 100% while dramatically reducing employee inventory time. Most importantly, BGN has significantly increased sales as well.

As a leading adopter of item-level RFID, BGN’s objectives are to integrate the supply and demand chain, automate the ordering and replenishment process, enhance productivity and improve the customer shopping experience. Currently all books are source-tagged with RFID labels from BGN’s distributor, received into inventory, and cycle counted continuously within the store. In addition, the item is tracked at the point-of-sale (POS) as well as when it leaves the store.

With the deployment of the TrueVUE RFID platform, BGN will realize the following capabilities delivered through a single, standardized solution:

• Enterprise-level reporting providing item-level intelligence across all stores
• In-store receiving to provide automated “proof of delivery” of incoming books
• In-store cycle count and real-time inventory management of all store inventory
• Real-time tracking of special order items utilizing smart surfaces and wireless networking devices
• Tracking of inventory movement from the back room to the sales floor to improve store  replenishment
• Enterprise-level device management and monitoring

According to BGN's CIO Jan Vink, “To date we have processed more than two-and-a-half million books. With smart shelves, hand-held devices and kiosks, we have reduced our weekly inventory to less than two and one-half hours per store while inventory accuracy increased from 65% to 97.5%. Also, our receiving process was reduced to less than 20 minutes with an accuracy rate of 100%, culminating in an increase in sales. As a result of this success, we are confident in our commitment to roll out item-level RFID across all of our retail locations by utilizing Vue and Sensormatic as a single-source for RFID hardware, software and services to facilitate our enterprise deployment.”

According to Scott Clements, vice president and general manager for the Sensormatic portfolio of retail solutions, today’s economic environment requires more intelligent and integrated retail applications to improve efficiencies that ultimately affect the bottom line.

“Through the acquisition of Vue Technology, the Sensormatic portfolio can offer retailers the means to address one of their most significant forms of loss, which is lower sales due to inventory inaccuracies,” he said. “Now, with complementary products, software and services powered by Vue Technology, the combination of Sensormatic retail solutions portfolio and ADT’s global reach can help retailers around the world optimize the profitability of their retail store operations more than ever.”

About Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN)

BGN is a Dutch chain of 442 bookshops situated throughout the country with a yearly turnover of € 200 million.  The company owns and operates the following bookstores: selexyz dominicanen, selexyz adr. heinen, selexyz broese, selexyz dekker v.d. vegt, selexyz donner, selexyz gianotten, selexyz kooyker, selexyz van piere, selexyz scholtens and selexyz verwijs together, together these stores receive about 11 million visitors a year.

About ADT Security Services
ADT Security Services, a unit of Tyco International, is the largest provider of electronic security services to more than seven million commercial, government and residential customers worldwide. ADT's total security solutions include intrusion, fire protection, closed circuit television, access control, critical condition monitoring, electronic article surveillance, radio frequency identification (RFID) and integrated systems. ADT's web site address is http://www.adt.com. 

About the Sensormatic Retail Solutions Portfolio
The industry-leading Sensormatic retail solutions portfolio offers vital loss prevention and operational improvement technologies and solutions. Backed by more than 1,500 patents, the Sensormatic solutions portfolio is sold through ADT and Tyco partners around the world. From the front of the store through the entire retail supply chain, Sensormatic solutions help keep losses lower – and profits higher. Today, over 80 percent of world's top 200 retailers that use EAS rely on Sensormatic solutions, which include EAS, source-tagging, data analytics and in-store, item-level intelligence applications. Sensormatic forward-thinking solutions also include dual EAS-RFID technology that provides item-level security and visibility in an ever changing retail environment. For more information, please visit http://www.sensormatic.com.

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