Singapore and Boca Raton FL — SATO and Tagistics Corporation (Tagistics) today announced a partnership for the cross marketing and distribution of each company’s products.

Tagistics will include SATO’s RFID Printers as standard equipment for their RFID Central™ solution, while SATO will market RFID Central worldwide.

Said Herbert P Goertz, CEO of Tagistics: “SATO is the perfect fit for Tagistics. In our tests, their printers outperformed the competition. Plus, they are a leader with a global presence in the RFID market, which means we can deploy SATO products anywhere in the world at our customers’ request. And by standardizing our RFID Central solution with SATO printers, we dramatically reduce our support costs.”

SATO, a leader in industrial label printing solutions, has a major share of the world’s print engines used in automated print-and-apply solutions today. It was the first company to introduce a complete, multi-protocol EPC-compliant UHF RFID Solutions to the industry. According to Vic Barczyk, SATO International’s Vice-President of RFID Business Development, “SATO’s business is based on solutions designed to resolve customers’ problems. Tagistics’ RFID Central is a truly unique offering that dramatically reduces the cost of retailers’ mandate compliance, and streamlines the supply chain for immediate savings. This makes it an affordable solution for our customers.”

Tagistics’ President Chris J Terry related how, “as we evaluated the various options for RFID printing, we decided that we needed a global partner that we could deploy with today, throughout China, the US, and Europe. We wanted a partner, not just a vendor. SATO immediately saw the value in our RFID Central solution and a “win-win” collaboration was born. The combined partnership of SATO and Tagistics can now offer the most cost effective RFID solutions to the world’s largest markets— not next month or next week—but now.”

RFID Central will be presented ‘live’ at the 2005 China RFID Forum on Beijing China from April 26–28 at the Beijing International Conference Center. At the Sun Microsystems booth, teams from SATO and Tagistics will be on hand to answer questions on how businesses can immediately reap savings in their Chinese supply chain by utilizing RFID Central.

More information on how Tagistics and SATO can help businesses with their RFID needs can be found at www.satoworldwide.com.

About Tagistics Corporation
Tagistics Corporation is a wholly owned US subsidiary of Hong Kong and Beijing based MeiDa Information Technology Ltd., which since 2001 has delivered emerging market technology solutions to meet the business requirements of international companies in China. By developing RFID Edge Solutions for the Global Supply Chain, the company allows their customers to realize (TAV) Total Asset Visibility by providing true ROI by leveraging RFID within their Far East operations.