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STAMFORD, CT & NEW YORK, NY, December 7, 2006 – Pitney
Bowes Management Services (PBMS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pitney
Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), and NewlineNoosh (NLN), a leading provider
of print sourcing and procurement solutions, have entered into a
strategic alliance that will enable PBMS to expand the mailstream
services it currently offers customers to now include commercial
and marketing print.
Under the terms of the agreement, PBMS can sell NLN managed services
for print at its more than 1,600 customer locations in the U.S.
NLN's services complement PBMS' existing print communications,
print asset management, centralized reprographic management and
best site services offerings.
This alliance broadens the pool of providers available to PBMS
clients for production of marketing collateral, client communications
such as on-boarding kits, and other critical mailings. Additionally,
Newline's unique reporting capabilities provide clear visibility
to managed program costs and supply.
"Our strategic alliance with NewlineNoosh gives us the ability
to offer our customers a truly holistic approach to managing their
print needs," said Greg Van den Heuvel, president, Sales,
Marketing & Solutions, PBMS. "NewlineNoosh's technology,
people and processes give us a competitive edge in the value we
offer customers through continual mailstream process improvements,
significant cost savings and operational efficiencies."
"Pitney Bowes is an industry bellwether with a track record
of delivering solutions that turn the mailstream into a profit
engine for its customers," said Peter Faucetta, Sr., chairman
and CEO of NLN. "We are thrilled by this alliance and look
forward to a successful relationship."
For companies such as Unilever, the ability to view print spent
and subsequent cost savings throughout the enterprise is key. "The
real secret to achieving the consistency and cost reductions we
were looking for was to implement and enforce an end-to-end process
across all brands and divisions," noted Robert McKay, manager
of Outsourced Services for Unilever. "We began to recognize
that in order for any solution to achieve our business goals, the
solution had to provide the ability to work collaboratively, not
only with Unilever staff, but across the entire print supply chain,
including our diverse group of agencies."
NewlineNoosh delivers Print Category Management Services that
dramatically lower costs while achieving peak efficiency & speed
to market for print & direct mail projects. NewlineNoosh customers
include Genworth Financial, Honeywell Consumer Products Group,
Star Tribune Company and many other leading enterprises. For more
information, please visit www.nlnglobal.com.
Pitney Bowes provides the world's most comprehensive suite
of mailstream software, hardware, services and solutions to help
companies manage their flow of mail, documents and packages to
improve communication. Pitney Bowes, with $5.6 billion in annual
revenue, takes an all-inclusive view of its customers' operations,
helping organizations of all sizes enjoy the competitive advantage
that comes from an optimized mailstream. The company's 86
years of technological leadership have produced many major mailstream
innovations, and it is consistently on the Intellectual Property
Owners Association's list of top U.S. patent holders. With
approximately 34,000 employees worldwide, Pitney Bowes serves more
than 2 million businesses through direct and dealer operations.
More information about the company can be found at http://www.pb.com.
NewlineNoosh and Noosh are the trademark and service mark, respectively, of NewlineNoosh, Inc. Other trademarks appearing in this release are the property of their holders. |