 New
head of manufacturing for Gemplus Asia Pacific
Singapore, 9 March 2004 - Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext:
LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world's leading provider of smart card
based solutions, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Jean-Pierre
Fantin as the new Asia Pacific Manufacturing Director. Based in Singapore, Mr.
Fantin will be responsible for developing and enhancing the company's regional
manufacturing capabilities, and consolidating key partner relations.
 Prior to his current position, Mr. Fantin was a strategy and project
development consultant for several international groups such as Telecom
Development, the Tonna Group and the Medco Group. Mr. Fantin's business
management, manufacturing and engineering career spans over 20 years in the
industrial and telecom sector in France, Japan, Korea, and the U.S.A.
Philippe Combes, EVP, Operations and Financial Services, Gemplus, said,
"Jean-Pierre's impressive international track record makes him the ideal
candidate to capitalize on the growth opportunities for our manufacturing
operations, enhance the service to our key telecommunications, financial
services, and ID and security customers, and generally contribute to our success
in the region."
In Asia Pacific, Gemplus has several manufacturing and personalization
facilities - in Tianjin, Zhuhai, Melbourne, Tokyo, Malaysia and Singapore.
Singapore is one of Gemplus' major manufacturing hubs. Located at Ayer Rajah
Crescent,
- The clean room produces 80% of the company's high value microprocessor
modules for its global smart card embedding plants. This is an average
production capacity of 37 million units per month.
- With a production capacity of 13 million units per month, Gemplus was the
first in South East Asia to be certified to manufacture and personalize EMV
smart cards for Visa and MasterCard International.
- The manufacturing plant for telecom produces 100 million units of scratch
cards and 50 million units of SIM cards per year.
Mr. Fantin replaces Justin D'Angelo, who has relocated back to France as
Senior Vice President of the Financial Services Business Unit.
About Gemplus
Gemplus International S.A.(Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP) is
the world's leading player in the smart card industry in both revenue and total
shipments (source 2002: Gartner Dataquest, Frost & Sullivan, Datamonitor.)
It has the largest R&D team, unrivalled experience, and an outstanding track
record of technological innovation.
Gemplus offers an exceptional range of portable, personalized solutions that
bring security and convenience to people's lives. These include Mobile
Telecommunications, Public Telephony, Banking, Retail, Transport, Identity,
WLAN, Pay-TV, e-government, access control, and a wealth of other applications.
Gemplus' revenue in 2003 was 749 million Euros.
www.gemplus.com
For more information, contact:
Janet LOH
Gemplus Technologies Asia
Tel: +65 6317 3333
Fax: + 65 6873 7971
Email: janet.loh-tk@gemplus.com
Amanda GOH
Edelman
Tel: +65 6733 1110 ext 211
Fax: +65 6733 5550
Email: Amanda.goh@edelman.com
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