HANTAREX and IGPDecaux at Milano Linate International Airport
The first Italian network for Digital Signage
Milan’s Linate International Airport is considered a “City Airport”, because it is only 7 km from the city centre. Linate, like Malpensa, is managed by Gruppo SEA, a company owned by the city and province of Milan. The group’s overall billing last year was €691.5 million with 2.9% growth.
The airport serves an average of 40,000 passengers a day calculated from 9.6 million passengers annually with an average stay of 93 minutes.
IGPDecaux is the Italian branch of JCDecaux. Formed at the end of 2001 by the union of IGP (a private joint venture with RCS MediaGroup), leader in publicity on public transportation and JCDecaux Comunicazione Esterna Italia, with the goal of developing publicity on urban furnishings where JCDecaux is a world leader.
IGPDecaux is the largest ‘external’ publicity supplier in Italy and is able to supply a wide range of outdoor and indoor products including on trams and buses, in subways and airports, maxi-format posters, bus stops, phone booths and other public furnishings.
Key numbers: turnover in 2007 was €167 million, clients in 130 Italian cities and airports including Milano Linate and Malpensa, Roma Fiumicino, 3 city subways: Milano, Roma, and Turin, and has 315 employees.
HANTAREX, founded in 1965, is an Italian leader in developing ultra-thin digital video technology solutions, and specializes in Digital Signage for malls, airports and railway stations. This Italian company’s core business is developing and producing monitors/displays and multimedia totems in small, medium and large formats, from 17” to 82” and more, made in various models that satisfy the multimedia needs, connectivity and interactivity required in the web and digital age.
Marketing, multimedia communication and constant connection to the Internet are essential for daily life. The company PMI has 50 employees and an annual turnover of approximately €20 million, global distribution and clients that include multinationals and government entities like SEA, Telecom, Ferrovie dello Stato, Poste Italiane.
In November 2008, 55 vertical 57” LCD Totem Multimedia screens were installed at Linate Airport. They produced a surprising and captivating effect. The displays are approximately 2.25 meters tall and 1 meter wide and are only 17cm thick in the single side model and 25 cm for the duel side model. They have a vertical 57” LCD screen with 180° viewing, very high brightness and Full HD resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. The totems are able to show very high resolution static and dynamic content. The quality, definition and image colour are perfect and real like.
It has been shown that passengers in airports have heightened senses because they have been “forced” to be there and are more open to messages. Thanks to aimed and captivating messages, passengers that have been “forced” to be there do not feel they are
wasting their time; rather they are gaining useful information.
The 55 screens have been place by IGPDecaux to insure that each screen can be seen well in areas with heavy foot traffic, waiting areas, arrival, departures even after the security check.
Citizen, a leader in watches, has purchased the entire network guaranteeing their domination of the airport. The 30” video promotes the recent ECO-DRIVE models and has been shown since the beginning of November.