Sponsor Profile: Cardpro

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The ePayments Forum is a platform of common interest that seeks to bring together stakeholders in the plastic money, mobile money, and internet banking sector (collectively known as ePayments). The inaugural event is organised by Techzim events through the valued support of sponsorship partners:

Platinum/Lead Sponsorship: Ecocash / Econet Wireless

Gold Sponsorship: Cardpro

Silver Sponsorship: The Paynet and Autopay divisions of Payserv Group

Consider all the plastic cards that you carry in your wallet. You rely on these cards to make purchases and withdraw funds, prove your identity and enter restricted facilities, place phone calls and access medical care, and the list goes on. As smart card, biometric and other new technologies evolve, the power and prevalence of plastic cards will grow. No matter what industry you’re in finance, retail, banking, education, health care, government, insurance or telecommunications these changes present new opportunities for your organisation.

Cardpro’s foundations can be traced back to 1994 when a small IT Shop in Harare secured distribution rights for Datacard range of products. The actual company was born in the year 2000 from a desire by the its founders to see their I.T. company expand into the plastic card manufacturing and personalisation market. The company has more than thirty five years of experience in the I.T. industry and has a record low staff turnover demonstrating that the company is considered more as a family.

Upon identifying the need to expand, Cardpro partnered with a number of local financial institutions to establish a card manufacturing plant in Zimbabwe. By importing capital machinery into Zimbabwe and now with the additional support of a state of the art power backup system, the company is able to manufacture plastic cards for a variety of uses. The technology utilised enables Cardpro to personalise plastic cards in-line, offering an incredible lead time with superior product quality. In 2003, Cardpro was able to repay the capital loan received from the financial institutions in full.

Cardpro provided the first COPAC solution conjunction with Datacard and was the first to deliver a Datacard MX2000 to a customer in Africa. In 2008 Cardpro combined their abilities with Printworks to overcome the economic crisis in Zimbabwe and although they remained as two different entities they did complement each other and survive the crisis. During 2011, new machinery was purchased and there was growth in the Cardpro staff compliment as well as its product range and this required the company to once again relocate to a larger premises.

Over the past twelve years, Cardpro has been able to establish a solid network of top quality suppliers worldwide as well as a customer base not only in Zimbabwe but throughout the region.

www.cardproafrica.com

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