| 2008 |
Gilbarco® FlexPay™ Encrypting PIN Pads won CSP Magazine’s Retailer Choice Best New Product. It provided the first cost-effective way for retailers to comply with Payment Card Industry requirements. |
| The industry’s first and best website, www.AskAboutPCI.com, made its debut, educating retailers about payment compliance. |
| Gilbarco Veeder-Root’s Greensboro factory was featured on The Travel Channel’s “Made In America” |
| Microsoft recognized Gilbarco Veeder-Root with a Partner Excellence Award for the Passport® point of sale system. |
| Gilbarco acquired Autotank Group of Tampere, Finland, the leading maker of Outdoor Payment Terminals used across Europe. |
| 2007 |
Applause™ Media System enabled retailers to feature advanced, colorful merchandising at the pump and provide coupons and other valuable information to fueling customers. |
| Gilbarco acquired Intermedia Kiosks of Owings Mills, MD and introduced the Express Ordering™ self-service foodservice system for convenience stores. |
| The company hosted its first Retail Solutions Users’ Conference in Pinehurst, NC. |
| 2006 |
The Mexican government approved Encore S for their dispenser replacement program |
| Passport point of sale system introduced Competitive Pump Control functionality to control non-Gilbarco dispensers. Gilbarco announced a strategic alliance with Ingenico concerning PIN Pads for Passport. |
| Gilbarco Veeder-Root and CSP Magazine initiated the industry’s first eXtreme Makeover -- Bobby & Steve’s Auto World. |
| 2005 |
Gilbarco Veeder-Root introduces the industry’s first integrated contactless smart card reader for gas pumps, approved for MasterCard PayPass, ExpressPay from American Express, and Visa. |
| 2004 |
The Gilbarco FlexPay™ Outdoor Payment Terminal was awarded EuroPay MasterCard Visa (EMV) and Visa International certification for use in Europe. |
| DOMS, a leading provider of European forecourt controllers based in Denmark, joined the Gilbarco Veeder-Root family through acquisition. |
| 2003 |
Danaher Corporation acquires the assets of Gasboy International Inc. ("Gasboy"), a former unit of the Tokheim Corporation. Gasboy operations are relocated to Greensboro, NC and merged with Gilbarco Veeder-Root. |
| 2002 |
Gilbarco and Veeder-Root join forces under a unified marketing brand as the world leader in retail petroleum products and services, submerged turbine pumps, environmental compliance technologies, point-of-sale (POS) systems, and back office retail automation systems. |
| The Gilbarco® brand and companies are acquired by the Danaher Corporation, parent company of Veeder-Root® company and the Red Jacket® brands. |
| 1999 |
New Passport® POS announced with intuitive, graphical user interface. |
| Encore® dispensers announced, heralding a new generation of electronic, web-capable dispensers. |
| Gilbarco demonstrates interactive merchandising content on a gas pump via the web. |
| Gilbarco demonstrates web-based remote diagnostics and software upgrades. |
| Partnership announced with Argentinian-based ARPEC to provide on-site service and site management systems across Central and South America. |
| Acquistion and merger announced with Logitron Latin America, now known as Gilbarco Latin America, and offices opened in Mexico. |
| GEC plc (parent company) changes its corporate name to Marconi. |
| Gilbarco renamed Marconi Commerce Systems. |
| 1998 |
Pumapro™ POS introduced Europe, South America, and Asia. |
| SK98™ amd Enterprise™ dispensers introduced by Gilbarco Germany (Salzkotten). |
| Japanese LLMPD introduced by Gilbarco Australia. |
| 1997 |
TRIND® announced, using RFID (radio frequency identification system) for cashless, wireless payment. |
| Unattended fueling using G-SITE introduced. |
| Gilbarco US explores robotic fueling with major US and European companies. |
| Gilbarco acquired Germany's leading manufacturer of petroleum dispensing equipment, Tankanlagen Salzkotten. |
| Gilbarco acquired Logitron, the leading Italian supplier of forecourt services, fuel dispensing equipment, and retail automation products. |
| 1995 |
Gilbarco introduced its new PC-based G-SITE® POS system. |
| 1994 |
Infoscreen® interactive color display introduced on The Advantage® Series Dispensers. |
| 1993 |
VaporVac® introduced as a vapor recovery system that helps reclaim gasoline vapors emitted while fueling. |
| 1990 |
The Advantage® Series dispensers introduced by Gilbarco Inc. in North America. |
| Euroline™ dispensers introduced by Gilbarco Ltd in the UK. |
| Historic partnership established that created the Beijing Chang Gi Service Station Equipment Company in the Peoples Republic of China (Gilbarco China). |
| 1988 |
Advanced blender technology introduced that replaced mechanical blending hardware with newer electronic blending technology. |
| 1987 |
Gilbarco acquired by the General Electric Company plc of the UK. |
| 1986 |
Pay-at-the pump technologies pioneered, featuring built-in credit/debit card reader system called CRIND®. |
| Puma Host family of pump controllers and POS systems introduced by Italian-based Logitron, srl. |
| 1985 |
Modular electronics introduced enabling easier electronic updating. |
| 1979 |
The Multi-Product Dispenser® (MPD®) is introduced by Gilbarco, offering motorists unprecedented fueling convenience in one location. |
| 1976 |
Smart dispenser introduced, featuring electronic price and volume displays that replaced rotary-type indicators. |
| 1965 |
Gilbert and Barker Manufacturing Company relocated headquarters and US manufacturing facility to Greensboro, North Carolina. |
| Gilbert and Barker Manufacturing Company officially changes its corporate name to Gilbarco. |
| 1962 |
G & B consolidates and opens operations in UK. |
| 1961 |
Gilbarco opens operations in South Africa. |
| 1955 |
Licensees manufacture Gilbarco pumps in Brazil, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Holland, India, and France. |
| 1945 |
G & B begins sales and service in the UK from several locations near London. |
| 1942 |
Product lines included air compressors, hydraulic lifts, centrifugal pumps, electronic indicating grounds, and Sier-Bath® screw & gear pumps. |
| 1935 |
'Gilbarco' registered as trademark with US Patent & Trademark Office. |
| Gilbert & Barker introduce the first computing pump. |
| Gilbarco Switzerland established. |
| 1930 |
G & B announced first electric meter pump. |
| Gilbarco Canada established. |
| G & B pumps manufactured by licensee Establecimientos Metalurgicos Depoli of Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
| 1929 |
Gilbarco Australia established. |
| 'Gilbarco' brand first appears. |
| 1912 |
Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Co. relocates to new factory in West Springfield, Massachusetts, to manufacture measuring and visible pumps. |
| 1911 |
Gilbert & Barker introduced first measuring gasoline pump. |
| 1910 |
Gilbert & Barker designed and manufactured its first petroleum pump the T-1, used push-pull motion to draw gasoline from an underground tank for fueling automobiles. |
| 1903 |
Ford Motor Company founded in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 1884 |
Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Co. acquired by Standard Oil Company (Standard Oil Company later becomes Exxon). |
| 1880 |
Electric light bulb invented by Thomas Edison. |
| 1876 |
German Scientist Nikolaus Otto invented the 4-piston internal combustion engine. |
| 1870 |
Charles Gilbert and John Barker’s partnership was incorporated as the Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, Massachusetts. |
| Sir Hiram Maxim (inventor of the Maxim machine gun) hired to create engineering drawings for Gilbert & Barker. |
| 1865 |
Charles Gilbert and John Barker partnered to build the "Springfield Gas Machine" that converted crude petroleum distillates into a gas vapor used to light buildings. The partners also designed distribution systems to safely distribute this lighting fuel (naptha) to individual lamps. Their first factory was a wood-frame building 18' x 42'. |
