Tim Marshall, Communications Day - Wednesday 28 November, 2007
Emerging mobile payment technology group Mint Wireless is looking at overseas expansion after signing Crazy John's as its latest high-profile reseller in Australia.
Speaking at the company's AGM this week, Mint chief executive Alex Teoh said the company was primed for a full scale sales and marketing assault in 2008. The company recently commercialised its 3G and GPRS mobile payments system as well as its Tomato Flash brand of portable memory products.
With strong local distribution channels for both Tomato and the Mint payments solution now in place, the company is looking further a-field. It is set to appoint a marketing agent in the US and is also eying opportunities in Canada, the UK and certain Asia markets.
In Australia, Teoh announced that Crazy John's will now start selling Mint to its business customers. The solution combines a payment client for Windows-based PDAs or Blackberry devices, and a portable printer unit. In is pitched at small businesses and fleets that need to process payments on the move. Through Optus it has been sold to Jim's Group, which has a collection of 2,500 franchises nationally. Crazy John's expected to bundle the Mint systems with connections to the Vodafone mobile network.
Meanwhile Mint has confirmed the appointment of MyNetFone and S2Net chairman Terry Cuthbertson and former Harvey Norman CFO John Skippen as non-executive directors.
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