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Article: VF Corporation Chooses Alien Technology RFID Solution in Multi-Year Agreement; EPC Class 1 Readers and Tags Enable World Apparel Leader to Meet Key Retail Mandates.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- October 27, 2004
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MORGAN HILL, Calif. -- Alien Technology(R) Corporation, a leading provider of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products, today announced that VF Corporation (NYSE:VFC), a world leader in branded apparel, has signed a multi-year agreement to purchase Alien(R) tags and readers. VF will use these EPC Class 1 products to tag cases and pallets destined for Wal*Mart and other retailers requiring RFID tags.
"Alien tags and readers offer the best long-term approach to VF Corporation for RFID compliance," said Eric Anthony, VP of Information Technology Services at VF. "Alien's ability to ensure capacity and to coordinate the future upgrade to Class 1 Gen 2 helps us ...