"… a world leader in the field of integrated card transactions, probably one of the few areas of technology where the UK is a world leader." - Bloor Research
Company Overview
The Logic Group manages both information and transactions securely for large and medium sized businesses across its European home market. The company adds business value through its specialisation in secure card transaction processing, running loyalty schemes, insight and IT consulting services. All the UK’s top 10 retailers are customers, as are four of the top banks and the majority of leading insurers. The group's software handles more than £100 billion (€145 billion) worth of transactions, across more than 250,000 points of sale and a continuing record of innovation is illustrated by the winning of many major awards including the 2005 Queen's Award for Enterprise.
Key Areas of Activity
The Logic Group serves a wide variety of geographic areas and market sectors including: financial services; retail; communications and transport; utilities; leisure and entertainment; and hospitality. The company is a long-established UK and Ireland market leader and is aggressively extending its reach across the world with southern and northern Europe as its home market. The Logic Group operates as a single, trusted supplier for all card transaction, infrastructure and management information needs. Many household names depend on the group for their payment systems, loyalty programmes, consultancy and IT infrastructures.
IT Consultancy
The Group has four consulting practises: Customer Insight & Loyalty, EFT, Card Processing and Payment Solutions; Security, Risk Management and Compliance; and IT Infrastructure. In order to stay competitive businesses need to maximise the benefits from IT and communication systems. Selecting the right suppliers, gaining compliance with industry standards and choosing the right solutions requires an in-depth knowledge of both business and technology. The Logic Group has the right skills and expertise. The group’s consultancy team offer strategic, independent advice has been able to bring hard business benefits to clients, improving their IT infrastructure effectiveness while reducing their costs by as much as 50%.
Customer Insight & Loyalty
The Logic Group administers comprehensive customer insight and loyalty programmes. These can involve supplying software, implementing programmes or providing on-going scheme operation. Consultants provide expert project management of the design, implementation and running of loyalty programmes and ensure that those schemes realise their full potential by providing vital insights on customer spending patterns. Logic Group clients have seen sales rise by 15%, thanks to the use of these solutions. The group’s customer insight consultancy services, covering such areas as data analysis, predictive modelling and marketing campaign management, help identify key customer segments, drive cost-effective customer communications and achieve brand loyalty.
Managed Services
The Logic Group provides a comprehensive range of outsourced card processing, loyalty, insight and network infrastructure services. Over 200 million payment and loyalty transactions a year are processed at the group’s secure data centres, taking transactions from 23 countries across four continents, with volumes significantly in excess of the total number of transactions processed within many of these countries across the same period. Loyalty card programmes are managed for over 25 million subscribers.
Card payments
The company was central to the UK’s migration to Chip & PIN, working with over 60% of leading retail stores. The group developed the world’s first EMV level 2 accredited Chip & PIN software and has been trusted by the UK’s top retailers to upgrade over 120,000 points of sale, including for new wireless and kiosk environments. The company also offers full support for Internet and call centre anti-fraud initiatives together with CNP fraud risk assessment for the growing number of businesses operating in the 'New High Street.' Logic Group payment solutions offer merchant’s protection, security, reliability and maximum choice.
Clients
The group's client list includes hundreds of well-known companies from a wide range of industries, including Norwich Union, HBOS, Arcadia, BP, B&Q, Comet, Dixons, Fortnum & Mason, H&M, HMV, Ikea, RBS, Rio Tinto, Sainsburys, Tesco, Vodafone and Wanadoo, British Gas, Manchester United.
| Key Executives |
Gareth Wokes |
Executive Chairman |
Antony E. Jones |
Chief Executive Officer |
William Dalton |
Financial Director & Company Secretary |
Andrew Downing |
Vice President, Product & Service Operations |
Brian Sellers |
Vice President, Sales |
Ian Glanville |
Vice President, Consulting & Professional Services |
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| More Information |
| + 44 (0) 1252 776700 |
| marketing@the-logic-group.com |
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