PayPoint signs up Henderson to offer Western Union^® Money Transfer^SM Services in Northern Ireland

PayPoint, the UK’s leading cash and internets payments company, and Henderson Spar, the leading Northern Ireland retail food chain, have teamed up to offer consumers in Northern Ireland the Western Union^® Money Transfer^SM service.

The Western Union^® service will initially be available via PayPoint at 10 Henderson company-owned Spar stores and will later be rolled out to additional stores following this trial.

“Like PayPoint, Western Union is an essential service to many of our customers, who value the convenience of sending and receiving money close to where they live,” said Alan Fitzsimmins, Henderson’s Trading Director. “Western Union offers a fast, convenient and reliable service, and by joining forces with PayPoint, we’re ensuring it is available to more people at the most convenient times and locations, making it easier to send money back to loved ones in another country as well as throughout England, Wales, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland – and to receive it.”

“I am confident that Western Union users, both old and new, will benefit from the added convenience and superior customer service offered by Henderson.”

“From the earliest days when the first PayPoint outlets opened in Northern Ireland more than a decade ago, we have constantly introduced innovative new products and services that make life easier for our customers and support independent retailers’ businesses,” said Mike Igoe, Retail Strategy Director at PayPoint.

“This is a significant development for Henderson, Western Union and PayPoint. Local convenience stores are at the heart of communities and being able to offer additional services such as Western Union Money Transfer from PayPoint helps them to bolster their relationships with both existing and new customers.”

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About PayPoint:
PayPoint is the leading cash and internet payments company in the UK, with operations also in Ireland and Romania. It handles over £9.3billion from almost 550 million transactions annually for more than 6,000 clients and merchants.

The company operates several businesses:

• The PayPoint branded retail network numbers over 22,600 terminals located in local shops (including Co-op, Spar, McColls, Costcutter, Sainsbury’s Local, One Stop, Londis and thousands of independents) in all parts of the UK and Ireland. The terminals process gas and electricity meter prepayments, cash bill payments, mobile phone top-ups, transport tickets, BBC TV licences and a wide variety of other payment types for most leading utilities, telecommunications suppliers and many consumer service companies;

• An ATM network which has over 2,300 ‘LINK’ branded machines across the UK, typically in convenience stores;

• PayPoint.net, an internet payment service provider, delivers secure online credit and debit card payments for over 5,200 web merchants, linking into all major UK acquiring banks;

• PayPoint Romania, a branded national retail network of over 2,260 terminals located in local shops which process cash bill payments for all the major utilities and mobile topups and a further 3,500 terminals that process mobile top-ups only; and

• Collect+, a joint venture with Home Delivery Network Limited, provides a parcel collection and drop off service at PayPoint retailers.

PayPoint floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004 and the company’s market capitalisation at 27 September was £318 million. PayPoint is widely recognised for its leadership in prepayment systems, smart technology and consumer service.

About Henderson
Family-owned Henderson Group are the owners of the SPAR, EUROSPAR, VIVO and VIVOXTRA franchises in Northern Ireland and have been distributing food and groceryrelated products to the convenience retail sector for over 100 years. Henderson Group introduced symbol group trading to Northern Ireland and is now the largest operator of its kind in the country, supplying over 400 stores.

About Western Union
The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a leader in global payment services. Together with its Vigo, Orlandi Valuta, Pago Facil and Custom House branded payment services, Western Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world, as well as send payments and purchase money orders. The Western Union, Vigo and Orlandi Valuta branded services are offered through a combined network of more than 410,000 agent locations in 200 countries and territories. In 2009, The Western Union Company completed 196 million consumer-to-consumer
transactions worldwide, moving $71 billion of principal between consumers, and 415 million business payments. For more information, visit www.westernunion.com.