Planar Announces Sale of Remaining Interest in CoolSign Digital Signage Business
BEAVERTON, Ore.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Planar Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLNR), today announced that on December 26, 2008 it closed the sale, for cash, of its CoolSign Digital Signage business in fields of use outside of the gaming field to CS Software Holdings LLC. Planar previously announced that it had sold Planar's CoolSign Digital Signage business for exclusive use within the gaming field to Bally Gaming, Inc. Further terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Planar's CoolSign digital signage software is the platform-of-choice for some of the leading banks, retail chains, advertising networks and corporate communication networks in the world, and is in use on over eight thousand networked digital displays worldwide.
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