About Us

Who we are

AllStar Industries is a leading privately-held global management and consulting firm based in Grand Prairie, Texas. Founded by Bertrand Pelletier in 1992, besides its international business advisory service, it boasts a portfolio of specialized divisions that operate in the card manufacturing and personalizaton space producing, selling and distributing plastic card-based identity recognition, access control and transaction equipment and technologies.

With an established presence on five continents and supporting partners located in pivotal geographic areas across the globe, we can provide tailored solutions for our diverse clientele with relative ease.

Using cutting-edge, best-fit innovation, we combine industry knowledge, functional experience, technological skills — and knowledgeable, customer-friendly support to help our clients grow and create unimpeded value.

Our History

Start

1996

Acquisition of manufacturing assets from GemTop a division of JB Poindexter & Co., leads to the birth of AllStar Industries, Inc.

1997

Sale of manufacturing assets

1998

Pelletier leads startup Advanced Card Systems dba. Sandia Imaging Systems in Arlington, Texas. The company engages in the production and sale of equipment and solutions used to create encoded plastic cards including IDs, bank cards and access control. Revenues surpassed $5M by 2005

2007

Sale Sandia Imaging Systems

2009

AllStar Card Systems is establishedupon the aquisition of non-manufacturing assets from Advanced Card Systems. The new specialized divison becomes the online ecommerce face of the company selling its plastic card printers, card personalization systems, access contol hardware and related supplies, software and solutions

1992

Global business developer and serial entrepreneur, Bertrand Pelletier, establishes AllStar Trading Corporation Consulting Group in Texas, which later emerges as AllStar Industries. The company would evolve into both a provider of global business consultancy, product development and management services with a significant manufacturing and retail arm involved in the production and sales of plastic card-based recognition and transaction technologies.

2003

EmperorTech Americas added to portfolio as a vehicle for the exclusive distribution of ID, smart card and passport personalization equipment via agreement with Emperor Technology Co. Ltd, Shenzhen, China.

2007

AllStar Industries relocates to Dallas Texas and transitions into a corporate umbrella for all of Pelletier's businesses

2014

EmperorTech is a SESAMES Award Finalist

2015

EmperorTech wins SESAMES Award for “Best Manufacturing and Test Product”

Our Mission

We’re committed to delivering clear and effective global business management solutions and transaction card technologies that make our clients and their customers lives simpler and easier. Our goal is to empower our customers with the tools they need to satisfy.

Together with our strategic partners at home and worldwide our entire team is at your disposal and can bring even more value to your projects — with our hardware, supplies and software and international business advisory services.

We value and nurture collaborations at every touchpoint in our engagements with our people, partners, suppliers and clients to drive our delivery of excellence.
Our mindset and culture is a customer-centric one; centered around our customers and focused on the processes, products and services surrounding their needs.

How We Work

We’re prioritize staying on top of our clients needs from start to finish whilst going beyond the traditional efficiency model to ensure successful outcomes. At the outset of your relationship with AllStar Industries, we identify your objectives, goals and target markets and determine the best-fit approach to an optimum outcome.

Our clients are our partners. We find and engage their needs and help them get what they most want for business success.

—Bertrand Pelletier
Founder and President

Then, we deliver end-to-end services that incorporate your voice and expectations, crucial new digital technologies and innovations in a flexible, ready efficient manner that is designed to succeed.

With our extensive background in international business and our ever-growing network of key decision-makers and partners across industries globally, we ensure that you are put in touch with the right people and resources and set on the right stage for success.

In addition, we are also particularly adept at facilitating connections related to payments, identity and access control and have a dedicated arm devoted to this helping our clients with the machinery they need to run full blown innovative payments and identity businesses and programs.

Below is an outline of some of the services we use to fulfill our obligations to you.

Global Business Solutions

Export Management
Small Business Development
New Markets and Market Entry Strategy Planning
Global Trading & Negotiations
Project Planning and Management

Payments, ID & Access Control

Card Printing and Personalization
Secure ID Solutions
Visitor Management and Access Control
Biometrics
Fare Payments

Global Business Solutions

30%

Card, Access Control & Visitor Management Solutions

70%

Markets, Industries & Applications

Whether you’re in the public or private sector, a small business, large enterprise or part of a government agency, we can help you with the equipment, products and services you need to create trusted solutions that helps you in the following areas

Global Markets:
- Consumer, Business and Government
Local Markets:
- Consumer, Business and Government
Payment Ecosystems:
- Credit card network, acquirers, issuers and gateways
Industries:
- Banking and finance
- Education
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Retail
- Law enforcement
- Government
- Military
- Entertainment
Access Management:
- Corporate Access
- Home Access
- Hotel Access
- Smart Lock
- Logical Access, used for identification or section control

Applications

Campus Cards:
- Student ID Cards
- Access to campus buildings and events
- Access to Copy machines
- Access Vending Machines
- Micropayments at Cafeterias
- Transportation
Tourist cards
Loyalty cards (reward points)
Micropayments
Mobile wallet:
- Contactless payments
- Cashless payments
Road tolling
Transport ticketing

Event ticketing
Ferry Cards
Car rentals
Fleet Management
Membership cards
Parking
Library RFID tags
Fuel cards
Hotel key cards
NFC Tag (NFC apps, MIFARE4Mobile)
Taxi cards
Smart meter
Museum Access Cards
Product Authentication
Production control
Health cards
Mobile ticketing
Citizen cards
Amusement parks
Bike rentals
Blood donor cards
Information services
Interactive exhibits
Interactive lotteries
Password storage
Smart advertising
Social welfare
Waste management
And more

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