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BGF invests £6m in
Evoke Creative
Evoke Creative, a design-led
manufacturer of interactive digital
solutions has received a £6m investment
from BGF to support further growth in
the UK and overseas. Based in the Wirral,
Evoke Creative supplies interactive digital
solutions, including self-service kiosks,
video walls, digital signage and payment
terminals for blue-chip customers in the
retail and leisure sectors. Its systems
allow brands to connect and engage
with their customers in dynamic and
rewarding ways, helping to maximise
transaction conversion rates, improve
customer journeys and reduce costs.
Led by founders Neil Clark and Dean
Ward, Evoke prides itself on creating
bespoke solutions and providing an end-
to-end service for customers, with design,
software development and product
assembly performed in-house to ensure
quality is maintained. The success of this
approach is evident from the long-term
relationships they have cultivated with
multinational brands including JD Sports,
McDonald’s, Biblioteca and Google.
With a growing workforce of
75, including award-winning design
engineers and software developers,
Evoke recently moved into purpose-
built offices in Bromborough, which
has enabled the business to have a
workspace, showroom, warehouse,
factory and production lines on-site.
Evoke has been voted as one of the 50
fastest growing companies in the North
at the Northern Tech Awards in 2016,
2017 and 2018.
Mark Mills, former CEO of Cardpoint
and NXC of Velocity Composites and
Mini-Cam has been appointed as
Non-Executive Chairman, following
an introduction through BGF’s Talent
Network, which connects portfolio
companies with the expertise to help
support growth. n
8 KIOSK solutions
Zytronic to demo Hybrid Touch for the first
time at ISE
Zytronic will demonstrate a
new Hybrid Touch technology
that enables full integration of
physical controls within an active
touchscreen at ISE (Hall 8, stand
G351), 5-8 February 2019, using a
55in touch table with their take on
a classic board game for visitors to
experience and play.
Zytronic’s hybrid touch allows
mechanical buttons and dials to be
incorporated in the active area of
projected capacitive touchscreens
which can be used in video walls,
touch tables and kiosks. This gives
designers the best of both worlds:
the flexibility of touch sensors
and the tactile feel of mechanical
controls without the need to
incorporate a separate button
deck underneath or alongside the
screen. Physical buttons and dials
can now be placed in and around
the active area of the projected
capacitive touchscreen and are
connected invisibly through the
viewable area of the screen. It’s
the first time that the two most
common control technologies
in the world have been closely
integrated in this way.
Supporting up to 80
simultaneous touches, the ZXY500
controller allows touch sensors
to be designed with an ultra-
narrow inactive border, creating
a sleek appearance by using
the maximum display area. The
increased speed of the controller
updates touch coordinates in
just 1ms at the controller output,
reducing touch latency by a third
compared to previous generation
controllers and improving the user
experience. Easier to integrate
into a system than ever before,
ZXY500 controllers enable a faster,
more responsive user experience
even in demanding outdoor and
unattended locations where users
may be wearing gloves or applying
only a light touch. n