Founded in 1989, Escher Group is a world-class provider of retail and message-based software solutions and services. With offices in five countries across the globe, Escher Group consists of two principal operating divisions: a Retail Software Division and a Message Based Communications Division.

Escher Group's Retail Division provides point of sale software. Escher's core technology, Riposte with RiposteEssential , together provide a retail management solution to organizations which are seeking to widen their service offering, expand customer reach, reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies. In particular postal organizations have used Escher technologies to add lucrative new services, including bill collection, entitlement payments, licenses, retail sales and banking.

Escher also offers a mobile wallet, which is based on Near Field Communication (NFC), a fast-growing standard that permits device-to-device communication allowing for information collection, exchange payment processing, rewards, and smart postering.

Escher's Message Based Division delivers RiposteTrEx , the only digital mailbox solution designed specifically to encourage citizens, businesses, governments and international agencies to collaborate securely online, on mobile devices and even through emerging social networking channels. The RiposteTrEx platform is delivered as a service for commercial business communication and to support the realisation of Collaborative Government and Smart City strategies.

Escher Group software and technology solutions can be tailored to all kinds of businesses. If your industry needs retail and message-based software that can handle high-volume, secure transactions within diverse, distributed computing environments, you need Escher Group.

Escher Group is part of Escher Group Holdings plc which trades on the London Stock Exchange.

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