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Created at the start of the 1960s, the IER company has consistently enhanced its range of products and services, while also extending its geographical establishment in an effort to always provide a better response to the expectations of its customers.
1962: IER, -Impression et Enregistrement des Résultats- meaning Printing and Saving Results, a company producing and marketing peripheral equipment for the scientific instrumentation market – was created.
1967: IER developed satellite-mounted magnetic recorders for all the European programmes.
1973: The first ticket printer -IER 221- was mass-produced.
1977: IER positioned itself in the air transport market when it launched the first air ticket printers. Its first customers were Air France and Swissair.
1982: An assembly shop was created in Besançon.
1985: IER developed abroad and opened a subsidiary in the USA, IER Inc.
1986: IER transferred its full production to a new plant located in Besançon.
1987: IER presented its first full range of ticket printers and became, in just a few years, the world leader in ticketing for major transport networks.
1988: A sales office opened in Singapore.
1996: The acquisition of ADAGE was an opportunity for the Automatic Identification activity to complete its range.
1997: IER joined the Bolloré Group.
1998: IER Ltd was created in the United Kingdom and IER Pte Limited in Singapore.
1999: The site in Besançon was extended to include a maintenance and repair centre for French customers and a workshop dedicated to the production of self-service kiosks.
2000: The Transport business of the US company Genicom, one of IER’s largest competitors, was bought out. This buy-out reinforced IER’s position as a world leader and shot it to the number one rank in the USA.
2001:
The subsidiary IER Impresoras Especializadas was opened for customers in Spain and the African continent.
2002: Automatic Systems, a Belgian company specialised in designing and marketing secure access control equipment, was taken over.
IER GmbH was created in Germany to provide customers in Germany and Eastern countries with a wide range of maintenance and repair services.
Part of the business of Ordicam, a company specialised in the design and engineering of identification systems by radiofrequency tags was taken over.
The air transport ticket terminal business of Thales e-transaction -formerly DAT- was taken over.
2003: IER was chosen by the SNCF to renew its automatic ticket machines for main lines, involving a first rollout of 1,150 terminals.
2004: IER signed an agreement with Caleo to purchase the company’s RFID tag know-how.
2005: IER was chosen by BAA, the leading global airport operator, to supply the 7 British airports with automatic check-in terminals over 5 years.
IER developed its RFID inlay design business and supplied Marks & Spencer with almost 20 million RFID inlays.
2006: IER wins a significant reference in United States with a contract for San Francisco airport to provide its new self check-in kiosk IER 918.
2007: IER is selected to equip the Eurostar stations with automatic check-in gates and counter check-in installations.
2008: IER deployed over a hundred self check-in kiosks for Air New Zealand and celebrated the installation of its 4000th self-service postal kiosk.
2009: Automatic Systems, IER subsidiary, won the contract to equip the 69 stations of Brussels subway with access control gates. IER successfully completed the engineering and implementation of major projects based on RFID technology in the retail sector.
2010: IER has been selected by the National Fund for Family Allowances to supply, deploy and maintain self-service kiosks and by La Poste, the french postal operator, to be one of the two suppliers for the new generation of self-service franking kiosks.
