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Olympics drives Norbain export sales to Greece
Jul 14 2004
Zarifopoulos Takis SA, Greece’s leading CCTV installation and distribution company, is helping the country’s leading institutions and hotels prepare for the country’s greatest sporting moment and, perhaps, the country’s greatest security challenge. With the 2004 Olympic Games only weeks away, organisations throughout the country are investing enthusiastically in new CCTV security systems.
Zarifopoulos Takis is the single largest export customer worldwide of Norbain SD, Europe’s largest distributor of electronic security solutions and home to the Vista brand of CCTV. Working with Norbain since 1991, the two companies have grown together, spearheading the take up of CCTV in Greece. With its head office in Athens and seven branches countrywide, Zarifopoulos Takis has developed a particular expertise in the banking sector that now accounts for over 40% of its business. This spans every aspect of fire and security including intruder alarms, burglar systems and central monitoring as well as CCTV.
Sales Director, Spilios Alexopoulos, reports that much recent work is inspired by the forthcoming Olympic Games and that this, in turn, is stimulating interest in new CCTV solutions:
"Digital solutions are growing in popularity very fast in this environment, in particular digital recording units such as the Vista Triplex™ Columbus Digital Video Recorder. Traditionally slower than the remainder of Europe in adopting technology, the Olympics coming to Greece is driving the take up of digital CCTV throughout the country, particularly in the Athens region. Ease of use, ease of searching recorded images and overall image quality are all important factors in the digital success story.
"We source almost all of our CCTV products from Norbain and four fifths of this is from the Vista range" explains Spilios Alexopoulos. "Our customers find Vista products affordable but of a very high quality. It is its reliability of supply and performance that keeps us returning to Vista as our premier CCTV brand of choice."
Probably the largest installer in Greece, Zarifopoulos Takis is well respected for its professionalism and expertise and this has led directly to contracts in sensitive and prestigious locations such as the financial services sector, the British Embassy, leading hotels and sports stadia, ports and airports as well as more ordinary public projects and buildings such as roads, schools and mainstream commercial environments.
