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NFC Times Exclusive: All publicly traded vendors across the NFC ecosystem have filed their year-end earnings reports, and the results show a mixed bag of promising sales for contactless and EMV technology, continued restructuring and expected challenges ahead with the advent of host-card emulation.

In the first full year since a takeover ousted former CEO and co-founder Oded Bashan, Israel-based NFC and contactless company On Track Innovations showed some progress in its efforts to turn around the chronically unprofitable company, in part by focusing on sales of contactless point-of-sale terminals.

U.S.-based Identive reported significant restructuring and job cuts in the fourth quarter, along with increased sales for NFC and other RFID tags–but still no profit.

France-based Inside Secure reported smaller operating losses for 2013, though mainly on an adjusted basis, and wrote off $3.6 million in NFC controller chips it had on hand as it continues to exit the market for the chips.

France-based chip supplier Inside Secure cut its operating losses during the first half, as it continues its transition to offering more security products and moving away from its past emphasis on contactless and NFC controllers.

NXP Semiconductors reported lower revenue from its NFC business in the second quarter compared with the first quarter, as the loss of a key customer, Samsung Electronics, begins to bite.

U.S.-based Identive Group reported an 81% year-over-year growth in transponder sales but a loss for the quarter overall, in preliminary second quarter results the vendor released Friday.

U.S.-based Identive Group reported growing NFC and smart card reader business, but fell back into the red during for the first quarter, a loss it largely blamed on U.S. federal government budget cuts.

France-based chip supplier Inside Secure today reported a sharp decline in its revenue in the first quarter from its NFC chips, blaming the situation on excess inventories of NFC chips on hand by its main customer BlackBerry.

Israel-based contactless and NFC vendor On Track Innovations today reported revenue fell by 22% in 2012 to US$40 million, and losses widened to $17.4 million for the year.