Gemalto Acquires Leigh Mardon's Personalization Center in Taiwan

Amsterdam, Melbourne and Taipei, November 14 (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Gemalto Enters Into Agreement With Leigh Mardon Group for the
Acquisition of Leigh Mardon Taiwan to Fully Catch Banking Business
Opportunity in Taiwan Market

Gemalto N.V. (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) today announces it has
entered into an agreement with Leigh Mardon Group Pty Ltd. to acquire
Leigh Mardon Taiwan, a 100% owned subsidiary of Leigh Mardon Group
Pty Ltd. The closing is scheduled to take place on November 30, 2006,
upon satisfaction of certain conditions precedent as stated in the
agreement.

Leigh Mardon is an established supplier of secure transaction
products and services with its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia.
The company is a market leader in financial cards in Taiwan and
Australia. Leigh Mardon is security accredited by Visa, MasterCard,
Europay, Bankcard, Diners Club and American Express and holds
International Quality Standards Organisation (ISO) 9002 series
certification.

"Taiwan has always been a locomotive for innovative banking cards
and services, recognized by major financial institutions as an
early-adopter of innovative solution schemes" commented Tan Teck Lee,
president North Asia of Gemalto. "This acquisition will reinforce
Gemalto's positioning in Asian banking markets, enabling the company
to further develop a local partnering approach with its local
customers. We at Gemalto are keen on investigating new resources to
enhance our customers' business and marketing differentiation; the
Leigh Mardon Taiwan acquisition is a major step towards this goal for
our Asian banking customers, especially in the current context of EMV
migration and contactless trend."

At the end of 2008, most of the Taiwanese current installed base
of financial cards should be converted to EMV (Europay Mastercard
Visa) compliant chip-based cards. Additionally, as a key marketplace
for successful innovative implementations, Taiwan has been showing
strong interest in high-end combined contactless and chip credit
cards, serving all major Taiwanese financial institutions.

About Gemalto

Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO) (nasdaq: GEMP) is a leader in
digital security with pro forma 2005 annual revenues of EUR 1.7
billion (USD 2.2 billion), operations in 120 countries and 11,000
employees including 1,500 R&D engineers. The company's solutions make
personal digital interactions secure and easy in a world where
everything of value - from money to entertainment to identities - is
increasingly represented as bits and bytes communicated over
networks.

Gemalto N.V. thrives on creating and deploying secure platforms,
portable and secure forms of software in highly personal objects like
smart cards, SIMs, e-passports, readers and tokens. More than a
billion people worldwide use the company's products and services for
telecommunications, banking, e-government, identity management,
multimedia content, digital rights management, IT security and other
applications. Gemalto was formed in June 2006 by the combination of
Axalto Holding N.V. and Gemplus International S.A.

For more information please visit www.gemalto.com.

About Leigh Mardon Australia

Leigh Mardon Australasia Pty Ltd has a history in security
printing dating back over 160 years, and today is Australasia's
leading secure transaction services company, with revenues of over
$100m per annum. The company has market-leading operations in card
production and personalisation, cheques, identity systems, security
printing, and mail services, and has cemented this position with the
recent announcement of a series of acquisitions of companies with
congruent operations in cards, smart cards and cheque production.

Leigh Mardon is a part of the international American Banknote
group. American Banknote (ABN) employs over three thousand people
through its subsidiaries on four continents. The company specializes
in high security printing services, identification systems, card
production and document logistics, and there is substantial congruity
between the products and service provided by ABN, with those of Leigh
Mardon.

For more information please visit www.leighmardon.com.au

Corporate Media Relations
Emmanuelle SABY
M.: +33-(0)-6-09-10-76-10
emmanuelle.saby@gemalto.com
Investors Relations
Stephane BISSEUIL
T.: +33-(0)-1-55-01-50-97
stephane.bisseuil@gemalto.com
TBWA Corporate
Emlyn Korengold
T:+33-1-49-09-66-51
emlyn.korengold@tbwa-corporate.com
FINEO
T.: +33-(0)-1-56-33-32-31

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Contact:
Corporate Media Relations: Emmanuelle SABY, M.:
+33-(0)-6-09-10-76-10, emmanuelle.saby@gemalto.com. Investors
Relations: Stephane BISSEUIL, T.: +33-(0)-1-55-01-50-97,
stephane.bisseuil@gemalto.com. TBWA Corporate: Emlyn Korengold,
T:+33-1-49-09-66-51, emlyn.korengold@tbwa-corporate.com. FINEO: T.:
+33-(0)-1-56-33-32-31


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