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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Smart Card |
| Founded | 2004 (IPO) |
| Headquarters | Paris, France Beijing, China Singapore |
Key people | Olivier Piou (CEO) |
| Products | Smart Cards |
| Revenue | $ 992 million (2005) |
Number of employees | 4,500 |
| Website | axalto.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2005-09-24) |
- See Gemalto for current company information.
Axalto was a smart card manufacturer, that during its brief independent existence, with over 4,500 employees in 60 countries, was one of the world's leading providers of microprocessor cards (Gartner, 2005) and also a major supplier of point of sale terminals.
Axalto's business covered the telecommunications, public telephony, finance, retail, transport, entertainment, healthcare, personal identification, information technology and public sector markets. The company recorded sales of over $992 million in 2005 and was fully listed on Euronext, the pan-European market.