EG GROUP, owned by Blackburn s billionaire Issa Brothers, has built on its American expansion with a newly announced partnership with a leading software company. The company will be partnering with PDI Software to implement a new SmartPay system, which will allow customers to pay through an app created by the company in the 1,700 convenience stores it owns across North America, as a means of shoring up and expanding its operations across the continent. This comes after a period of rapid expansion across the USA, with the Blackburn headquartered company recently having acquired the Cumberland Farms and Westborough shopping chains and having partnered with pizza company Sbarro to open a selection of eateries.
EG Group to Roll Out Contactless Payment to All North American Stores
BLACKBURN, United Kingdom EG Group will expand its use of PDI Payments to nearly 1,700 convenience stores across North America.
The payment platform currently powers EG Group s SmartPay Rewards program, which originated at Cumberland Farms before EG Group acquired the Westborough, Mass.-based c-store chain.
After downloading the free mobile app, customers can use it for contactless payment in-store or at the pump. SmartPay Rewards also allows members to save 10 cents on every gallon of gas purchased, along with other rewards.
PDI, a global provider of enterprise software solutions to convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers, will provide technology to support customer enrollment in SmartPay and deliver ongoing customer service for program members.
EG Group Selects PDI to Bring Contactless Payments to its North American Sites
Monday, January 18, 2021 6:00PM IST (12:30PM GMT)
PDI’s payments platform powers EG Group’s SmartPay Rewards app that will be rolled out to thousands of sites
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PDI (www.pdisoftware.com), a global provider of enterprise software solutions to convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers, announced it has reached an agreement with EG Group to expand the use of PDI Payments to nearly 1,700 sites across North America.
PDI added payments capabilities to its Marketing Cloud Solutions offering last year after acquiring ZipLine, the industry leader for ACH payment and provider of mobile payment technology. The PDI Payments platform currently powers EG Group’s SmartPay Rewards. The rewards program originated with Cumberland Farms one of several U.S.-based convenience store brands EG Group acquired in recent years
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The company will deliver cybersecurity and networking solutions to multi-site store operators with highly distributed enterprises
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#cloudsecurity–PDI (http://www.pdisoftware.com), a global provider of leading enterprise software solutions to the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industries, announced today that it has acquired Cybera Inc. and ControlScan Managed Security Services (MSS); both are leading providers of managed security solutions to protect customers against cybersecurity threats. The acquisition complements PDI’s existing industry-focused cloud product strategy, bringing customers a fully managed, cloud-based network security solution.
“Security is becoming increasingly important in our industry as many businesses embrace their own digital transformation and deploy more in-store applications and edge devices,” said Jimmy Frangis, CEO at PDI. “We are excited to add these industr
An Atlanta software holding company focused on convenience stores and petroleum wholesalers around the world has acquired Franklin-based managed security services marketer Cybera.
The deal closed this week alongside PDI’s acquisition of the managed security services division of ControlScan, which is based in Lexington, Kentucky. The two businesses will work alongside each other under the umbrella of a new PDI security solutions group. Terms of the purchase by PDI aren’t being disclosed, but trade publication
Buyouts reported
in mid-2019 that a deal could be worth between $250 million and $300 million.
Cybera, which had been owned by private equity firm Sumeru Equity Partners and Adams Street Partners, employs about 110 people locally and another 20 people at offices in Silicon Valley and London. The company was founded in 2001 and attracted big-name clients such as Shell, Mapco, Captain D s and Applebee s as it built out its cloud-based network security services over the ye