July 15, 2002
NORTH CANTON, Ohio -- Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) has acquired 100 percent of Sersi Italia, a company specializing in multi-vendor customer service and closed-circuit television monitoring of ATMs for banks and post offices throughout Italy.
Sersi Italia has a staff of 50 employees and posted euro 3.5 million in sales in 2001. With the acquisition, Diebold will have 200 service professionals in Italy. According to a news release, approximately 60,000 ATMs are under a Diebold service contract throughout Europe; about 25 percent of them are non-Diebold units.
Also according to the release, with the acquisition Diebold will take over the management of 2,300 automatic postal dispensers.
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