AIM targets growth in India

AIM, the Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility has chartered and licensed AIM India to promote the growth of auto-ID in one of the fastest growing markets in the world.  AIM has been diligently working towards the establishment of a chapter organization to serve vendors and solution providers in India. 
 
‘AIM India will play an important role in educating users and service providers about auto-ID and mobility solutions,’ says Dan Mullen, AIM president.  ‘I am sure India will experience tremendous demand of identification and mobility technologies in coming years.’
 
The chartering of AIM India represents one element of an ongoing effort by AIM to promote the use and growth of solutions and services in Asia Pacific. 
 
‘Imports have been liberalized and custom duty on barcode printer, scanners and readers have been lowered by 10 per cent – and these shall be further reduced to WTO levels by 2005,’ said Mr PC Jain, president of AIM India.  ‘India government is investing in infrastructure which shall drive broad based growth of the whole economy.  In fact, India's growth is the highest after China.’ 
 
AIM provides direct support for all activities in India from its Asia/Pacific Regional Support Center, located in Hong Kong.  Wing Ng, director, AIM Asia/Pacific, says: ‘The economy of India is booming and one typical example is around one hundred shopping malls are under construction in India at the moment.  We will work together with AIM India to arrange a conference to tap into this lucrative retail market. AIM members who are interested in participating in the Retail conference should contact me directly.’