AutoPlan is a part of the Swedbank group and the market’s leading player in the professional management of vehicle fleets.

EasyPark Phone parking, “the virtual parking meter”, is already a well-established mobile service in most major cities in the Nordic countries, and more than 300,000 drivers pay for their parking today with their mobile phones instead of via the physical parking meter.

For AutoPlan’s customers, the collaboration with EasyPark means increased possibilities of cost control, as the person who parks using the service pays for the parking time actually used. The service is very flexible and makes it possible for the customer to indicate an approximate end time, which can be shortened or extended according to the unique need. This reduces costs at every step, and in addition the environment is a winner, as all payment flows are handled in a modern fashion digitally.

The customer can choose between several interfaces, where the popular EasyPark app is by far the fastest-growing interface. EasyPark works actively to launch more value-added services in the app, and more new features are on their way.

“At AutoPlan, we always strive to raise the degree of service to our customers. The management of parking is often considered bothersome; EasyPark’s service creates even clearer control of parking costs compared to credit cards and physical parking meters. We are also happy that this improves our customers’ ability to concentrate on his individual assignments without having to worry about parking time elapsing or having to guess in advance how much money to spend on parking,” says Robert Bergman, delivery and purchasing manager at AutoPlan.

“We are very positive to this collaboration, where we are a good addition to AutoPlan’s vehicle-related service portfolio. EasyPark already has thousands of satisfied customers who confirm all of the advantages of our popular service – with EasyPark, you always have the parking meter in your pocket. The collaboration with AutoPlan makes combined billing of parking costs through EasyPark possible by way of the vehicle fleet solution AutoPlan delivers on the market, which is something current and presumptive customers are looking for,” says Anders Bäck, CEO, EasyPark AB.

For more information, contact:

Robert Bergman, Delivery and Purchasing Manager, AutoPlan
+46 8 585 986 69| robert.bergman@swedbank.se

Anders Bäck, CEO EasyPark Sweden AB
+46 (0) 8 522 26 703 | anders.back@easypark.net

Pdf: EasyPark and AutoPlan enter nationwide collaboration

Besides Kolding, the approx. 300 000 motorists using EasyPark can also use the appreciated service in the cities of København, Frederiksberg, Silkeborg, Aarhus, Odense, Hillerød, Skagen, Svendborg, Randers and in many parking areas around Denmark managed by Q-park, EuroPark, ParkZone, Scan-Park, CityParkering etc.

Besides a superior end-user experience without the need for cash, physical P&D’s and guessing your parking time, the citizen saves money and avoid getting parking fines. EasyPark offers an interface for every citizen preference such as; Smartphone APP, IVR, SMS and Web.

For the city and it’s tax payers, the need of cost-heavy investments in physical parking infrastructure is over time reduced as mobile payments penetration grows. Digital collection of parking revenues substantially reduces the costs related to coin-handling, theft, fraud, down-time, maintenence and service. In addition to cost-savings, there is a minimized enviromental impact.

” We are glad to welcome Kolding municipality to the future of Parkering. We have from our 60,000 users experienced an increasing demand for mobileparking in Jylland – especially in Kolding. EasyPark is looking forward to be able to meet this demand and is proud that Kolding has decided to enter to enter co-operation with EasyPark”, says Jakob Jessen, EasyPark.

For further information:

Morten Hother Sørensen, Adm. Dir, EasyPark A/S
Tlf. 70 22 12 08 | morten.hother-sorensen@easypark.net

Pdf: EasyPark gain coverage

The solution is developed in close cooperation with the Municipality of Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark. With the new cutting edge solution from EasyPark, the permit applicant will now be able to log-in to a web page using the national digital signature and just add the car registration number. Then both the applicant and the car will automatically be verified against several public databases and if authorization is granted, be presented to the available permit options valid for that vechicle.

The system supports all different types of permits; residential, visitor, business permits and all different types of car ownership (private, business and leased cars). Functioning as a web-shop, the service also enables the customer to pay instantly for the permit via credit card or invoice. Upon payment confirmation, a digital permit is issued.

The permit solution is an integrated part of the Parking Excellence concept from EasyPark, bringing together mobile paid parking and controlling with digital permits. In order to easy the implementation and avoid costly and cumbersome installation costs, the EasyPark software solution is operated as a Software as a Service, minimizing the operational burden for the municipality of Aarhus. Finally the solution also takes the productivity of the municipality into account, having a back-end system that supports the configuration of permit areas, pricing structures and payments by the municipality staff.

Niels Richard Madsen, Ekspeditionssekretær, Traffic Administration

EasyPark has been a contractor to the city of Aarhus since 2002. The company is authorized by the city to provide their mobile parking system, an alternative solution for payment of parking. The solution that EasyPark provides helps drivers to initiate and modify parking payment and is giving drivers the possibility to pay for the exact parking time, by allowing the stop of parking payment upon returning to the car.

The system is from our perspective much appreciated by the customer, it is flexible in a way that meets the different specific needs for different groups of customers and at the same time it supports the city’s rules and regulations for various parking zones, with reference to our progressive charges.

 The city is pleased with the service EasyPark provides and reports and payments have come promptly, all according to agreements and standards set by the city.

 From both an environmental and cost perspective the city strongly believes thatthe concept of mobile parking has a lot to contribute with going forward.

For yderligere oplysninger:

Niels Richard Madsen, Ekspeditionssekretær, Traffic Administration
Tlf. 8940 4585 | nrm@aarhus.dk

Morten Hother Sørensen, Adm. Dir, EasyPark A/S
Tlf. 70 22 12 08 | morten.hother-sorensen@easypark.net

Pdf: EasyPark launches digial permit solution for the city of Aarhus

Following the transaction Verdane owns over 60% of the company, alongside previous owners Ledstiernan, Marinvest and members of the management team. Verdane is a fund that invests in Nordic growth companies, often through so called portfolio transactions where several holdings are acquired at once.

EasyPark has over a number of years built a strong position in the Nordic phone parking market with over 200 contracts with cities and parking operators. By providing a phone parking solution that works in all Nordic countries and Germany, EasyPark delivers unique value to cities, parking operators and motorists.

EasyPark has made significant investments in a new state of the art mobile payment platform for parking transactions with complex tariffs and rules. For cities, the platform provided by EasyPark results in a cost efficient solution, because the scale of the operation can be leveraged more than any single city could. For motorists, the biggest value is convenience and the ability to avoid over-payment and parking fines. With the new Smartphone applications for iPhone and Android, the interface to use EasyPark phone parking services has become even more intuitive. Customer satisfaction is high and in a recent survey, 94% of EasyPark customers say that they like the service.

“The value we can create for cities and parking operators is directly proportional to the coverage. For motorists, having a single service regardless of where they go is the key value driver. For cities, the cost for maintaining and developing the solution decreases with every new city making it more and more cost effective” says Johan Birgersson, CEO of EasyPark Group. “When growing the coverage in the Nordics we think that Verdane, with its truly Nordic and European focus, will be a valuable partner for EasyPark.”

The new and the existing owners make it possible to continue with platform investments to serve tomorrow’s drivers with digital services such as payment of electric vehicle charging and GPS capability in Smartphone applications. They can also support the company in entering new markets.

“We have followed EasyPark since 2006 and we are deeply impressed with the journey the company has made. It is rare to see a company delivering on their ambitious plans year after year” says Lars B Thoresen, Managing Partner at Verdane Capital Advisors.

Verdane funds have a 25 year history of investing in Nordic growth and technology companies and EasyPark’s needs fit well with what Verdane can contribute with as an owner.”

Verdane funds have invested in close to 250 companies over the past 10 years. Many of those have had a strong Nordic position with the potential for growth outside the region. Portfolio companies Dibs Payment Services (online payment services provider) and TradeDoubler (performance advertising network) were at the time of investment similar to EasyPark in terms of focus and stage of development. Both companies were taken public on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and have been considerable success stories.

For further information, please contact:

Johan Birgersson, CEO EasyPark Group,
+46 70 832 67 58 | johan.birgesson@easypark.net

Lars Thoresen, Verdane Capital Advisors,
+47 95 707 494 | lars.thoresen@verdanecapital.com

About EasyPark

EasyPark is the leading Nordic provider of mobile phone parking solutions that introduce a leap in cost efficiency and ease of use in parking. The company is present in more than 120 cities and additionally serves more than 60 commercial operators. Its services have been used by over 500,000 drivers to date. EasyPark Group has 85 employees and operates from offices in Sweden (HQ), Denmark, Norway, Finland and Germany. www.easypark.net

About Verdane Capital Advisors

Verdane Capital Advisors has 25 years experience in the venture capital and private equity market as advisor to the Verdane Capital funds. The funds act as liquidity providers for owners of unlisted assets, primarily by acquiring portfolios of unlisted companies, but Verdane Capital funds also selectively invest directly in medium-sized individual companies. The committed capital in the funds advised stands at over €500m, with a total of over 100 holdings in four different funds. Verdane Capital Advisors has 21 professionals in offices in Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm. Example investments include: BytHjul, Codenomicon, Liaison Technologies, Mathem, Resman, SmartMotor, Wireless Maingate and Åkerströms. Examples of earlier investments are Coding Technologies, Chipcon, DIBS, Nacre, Opera Software, Reslink and TradeDoubler. www.verdanecapital.com

PDF: Verdane new majority owner in pay by phone parking provider EasyPark

Christian has a broad experience in sales and marketing through several channels from Tele2, for example direct sales (inbound/outbound), retail and web. Christian is also used to work cross-boarder through his work in the Tele Group.

- After seeing the smartphone evolution from a telecom operator´s perspective, I have great faith in mobile payment, and especially the kind of useful services that EasyPark provides.
I´m impressed of the coverage that EasyPark has in Norway, through experience I know that coverage is a must to attract customers with a mobile service. The service is more or less available throughout Norway. I´m really looking forward to become a part of the EasyPark team, who are so committed to create value for parking operators as well as motorists, says Christian Sæterhaug.

- Christian has unique experience from his impressive seven-year career with over in Tele2 and he has both the attitude and motivation we value. On that we are pleased to have Christian with us in the team and are confident that he will be of great value, both as a director in Norway and as a part of our management team, says Johan Birgersson, director of EasyPark group.

Christian assumed his position on 1. February 2012.

For more info:

Johan Birgersson | CEO EasyPark Group
+46 708 326 758 | johan.birgersson@easypark.net

Christian Sœterhaug | Country Manager EasyPark Norway
+47 413 19 124 | christian.saterhaug@easypark.net

 
Pdf: Pressrelease – Christian Sœterhaug new Country Manager in EasyPark Norway

Thus, this morning on the TV2 program, Go’ Morgen Danmark, you could watch the feature about brilliant free apps for Smartphone phones. In the feature, Peter Svarre, Social Media Consultant, reviewed some amazing apps to make your life easier, including the EasyPark App, which he uses frequently himself. Peter Svarre talks about how the EasyPark service has saved him from several parking tickets over the last three years, by quickly letting him extend his parking period without having to return to his car.

The app is easy to use and only requires a call to EasyPark to register as a customer.

For further information:

Morten Hother Sørensen, Corporate Business Development Officer EasyPark Group
+45 40 41 59 00 | morten.hother-sorensen@easypark.net

Pdf: EasyPark in GO´ Morgen Danmark

In july 2011, the long-awaited smartphone app was launched first and foremost as a new interface for EasyParks todays over 250 000 members. In addition, the high ranking also made the app visible for new motorists resulting in a significant increase of memberships during late summer and early fall. With 40 000 downloads and close to 200 000 app-started parkings the EasyPark App is already one of the most popular and widely used payment apps in the Nordics.

Since the App was launched hundreds of customers have provided their input and that is now the basis for new features to be included in the next release scheduled for early 2012. Location based services are on top of the wish list and a “find parking area based on gps location” is next in line to be developed and launched.

“After close to 10 years in the mobile payment industry, dealing with an otherwise slow change in user behavior – the smartphones have radically and quickly changed the playground. People now spend more time with their smartphones than with their spouses and it has really become the center of everyones digital life. This evolvement enables EasyPark to reach new segments and to bring even more benefits to the motorists. We look upon the near future with great excitement” Says Johan Thalin, Chief Marketing Officer, EasyPark Group

The EasyPark Smartphone App v.1.0 is simply called EasyPark and is available as a free download from App Store (Iphone) and Android Market. The app will be available on other operating systems during 2012.

For further information, please contact:

Morten Hother Sørensen
Corporate Business Development Officer EasyPark Group
+45 40 41 59 00 | morten.hother-sorensen@easypark.net

Pdf: Pressrelease – EasyPark Smartphone App hits the #1 spot

The application offers a range of exciting features aimed at making phone parking payments even more simple, convenient and secure for EasyParks today over 250 000 members. Park any of your vehicles with the click of a button and select the parking duration in hours and minutes, or as time of day. The application counts down the parking duration in real-time and the user can choose to prolong or stop the parking duration at any time. The parking fees are collected and shown on the members debit/credit card or invoice. Parking has never been easier!

“We took aim in building a fast and intuitive application in phase one but plan on launching additional value added services in future versions of the App. EasyPark is a working tool for many of our members and a parking must be started in seconds when opening up the application. I think we have managed to package the core of our service EasyPark into the App and we are awaiting more customer input with great excitement” says Johan Thalin, Chief Marketing Officer at The EasyPark Group.

Future updates of the application are already under development to bring even more values to the smartphone user. Location based services such as easy finding of area codes, guidance to available parking spaces, a locate-my-car service are among the features to be launched ahead.

The EasyPark Smartphone App v.1.0 is simply called EasyPark and is now available as a free download from App Store (Iphone) and Android Market.

For further information, please contact:

Johan Thalin (Chief Marketing Officer)
EasyPark Group
+46 733 25 40 33
johan.thalin@easypark.net

Pdf: EasyPark Phone Parking launches free Smartphone App.

Before joining EasyPark, Morten has worked about nine years within the mobile telecom Group TDC. During these years Morten did a great internal career and was promoted to different management roles within advertising, marketing, strategy & process development, new business and wholesale. Morten last assignment was as a Project Manager for developing new payment solution for non- telecom related services within the Telecom industry.

- The reason for taking on a new challenge at EasyPark is the strong growth potential, the international aspects of the role and the ability to leverage my experience and knowledge within mobile payment services, says Morten.

- We have an aggressive plan for growth and a vital part is to strengthen our management team at the same as we establish an organisational structure based on geographical & functional matrix. Morthen that now takes on two roles has an extensive experience and knowledge within mobile service and business development. Hence, Morten will be a valuable member of our team taking the business to new levels says Johan Birgersson CEO of EasyPark Group.

For further information, please contact:

Johan Birgersson I CEO EasyPark Group

Office: +46 (0)8 522 26 701 | johan.birgersson@easypark.net

Pdf:  Morten Hother Sørensen new Managing Director for EasyPark Denmark

EasyPark Group and Simac Business Applications BV, a subsidiary of Simac Techniek NV, founded an exclusive partnership for Scandinavia, Great Britain and Germany. Simac’s leading concept for parking security systems, combined with Europe’s market-leading mobile parking provider, make the realization of ‘Parking Excellence’ possible. This concept is being perceived as revolutionary when it comes to digital on-street economical parking systems. The system combines EasyPark’s concept of mobile parking and Simac’s parking control systems. This innovative, digital concept provides an improved payment service to customers and reduces the controlling costs for the parking space provider. At the same time, the concept is a package-deal and offers innovative and ready to use solutions.

Simac BA is a Dutch software company, which specializes in mobile phone parking systems for cities and regions. The so-called ‘Sphynxx’ solution combines applications for mobile data collection equipment as well as mobile scanning solutions. Sphynxx is the worldwide leading application for traffic – and misdemeanor management. The application makes it possible to handle administrative controlling and coordination of all parking relevant aspects from one central place. Sphynnxx is already being used in more than 50 cities. The key is the automatic identification of the number plate (ANPR= Automatic Number Plate Recognition), which increases efficiency for parking space security.

EasyPark is Europe’s leading mobile parking system provider and driving force behind the ‘virtual parking meter’. In Scandinavia, EasyPark is being used in nearly every city for cashless parking. The company currently also provides its solution to about 20 German cities (i.e. Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Hanover, Duisburg etc.). Taking all issued licenses into account, EasyPark’s technology is being used in many more countries.

Andre Wielaard (CEO of Simac BA) describes the cooperation as followed: ”EasyPark has a significant market leadership in all 5 core markets. Because of that and their market experiences in this field, EasyPark is the ideal partner for us in order help us reach our internationalization goals. Furthermore, the synergies that evolve by combining our control technology with EasyPark’s mobile parking systems are cutting-edge.”

Johan Birgersson (CEO EasyPark Group) agrees and adds: ”‘Parking Excellence’ is an integral concept, which emphasizes Simac’s and EasyPark’s strengths. We are now able to offer custom-made and ready-for-use solutions to cities and private parking space providers, which offer an increase in efficiency, while lowering your costs.”

For further information:

Philipp Zimmermann, MD EasyPark Germany
+ 49 (0) 511 12359991 | philipp.zimmermann@easypark.net

Pdf: “Parking Excellence” to make splashy entrance to German market