Advanced Data.Comm Incorporated

Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, Nov, 2001

Advanced Data-Comm is a full-service teleservices provider that focuses on understanding the unique needs of each client and developing a customized plan that best meets those needs. Since the company was founded in 1988, Michael Budde, President and CEO, has continued to build long-term partnerships with clients and maintains a straightforward, honest approach that fosters trust and builds success.

SPECIALIZATION For the past 10 years, Advanced Data-Comm has been servicing more than 40 clients with audit preparation for multiple publications. These audits are conducted to verify records on paid and controlled subscriptions. Each client has specific requirements that are incorporated into a customized script. After the appropriate number of names are acquired or the correct number of hours are finished, the updated database is sent back to the client.

OTHER SERVICES Advanced Data-Comm provides inbound (24/7) and outbound teleservices, including audit preparation, market research, fundraising, survey, lead generation, customer service, and third-party verifications.

CLIENT LIST Advanced Data-Comm has over 100 clients. Clients come from a variety of industries including publishing, health care, utilities, associations, and telecommunications.

CAPABILITIES/RESOURCES Advanced Data-Comm maintains close contact with each client, analyzing daily results and long-term trends with advanced technology and sophisticated software. The management team continually enhances services by improving operations, training, and quality assurance procedures to best serve clients.

EQUIPMENT/FACILITIES Based in Dubuque, Iowa, Advanced Data-Comm has additional call centers located in Monona, and Oelwein, Iowa; Superior, Ashland, and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; and Moline, Illinois. In total, Advanced Data-Comm has 750 workstations, occupies over 121,000 square feet of professional office space, and employs 1250 individuals.

LITERATURE/INFORMATION AVAILABLE Brochure available upon request.

ADVANCED DATA-COMM, INC.

301 Data Court

Dubuque, IA 52003

Phone (800) 582-9501

Fax (563) 582-2003

e-mail: rapel@advanced-data.com

www.advanced-data.com

YEAR ESTABLISHED 1988

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 1250

CONTACTS/PERSONNEL

Rob Apel. Vice President, Sales

Michael Budde, President & CEO

B&W PRESS

B&W Press's team of 145 employees provides you with superior customer service, quality products, aggressive cost control and on-time delivery. We produce low-cost formats with state-of-the-art machinery. These formats work in the bindery and in the mail. Ask your magazine or catalog printer about B&W Press. Please!

SPECIALIZATION Our main product line is magazine order-form envelopes, catalog order-form envelopes, and two-way mailer formats. B&W Press manufactures more than 9 million order-form envelopes each day on 10 web presses.

PRODUCT/SERVICES OFFERED Manufacturer of bind-in order-form envelopes, business-reply cards, and subscription-renewal envelopes. Fundraising-one-and two-way mailers. Credit and insurance applications, product inserts, package stuffers.

CLIENT LIST B&W has 2,700 repeating customers worldwide.

FREE LITERATURE/INFORMATION AVAILABLE A sample kit is available with successful mailer formats, including envelopes that we've created for major mailers. We can overnight it to you if requested. Pricing available with kits per your specifications.

CAPABILITIES/RESOURCES B&W Press has installed a new computer system for scheduling that provides accurate order information and status updates. This system allows great flexibility to change copy easily, and we can schedule large runs in portions to allow for market testing. Paper is available directly from 6 major mills and packed by weight to ensure the accuracy of the count. Complete electronic pre-press service is in place to receive your desktop diskettes. NEW! 22,000 sq. ft. and 2 new converting lines are in place now to meet delivery dates all over the U.S!

OTHER B&W Press has been in business for 35 years. No one makes this product, packages this product, or delivers this product better than B&W Press. Just ask our customers. B&W press can help you!

B&W PRESS

Junction Rte. 95 & 133

401 East Main Street

Georgetown, MA 01833

Phone (978) 352-6100

Fax (978) 352-5955

www.bwpress.com

YEAR ESTABLISHED 1966

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 145

CONTACTS/PERSONNEL

Paul Beegan, President & Treasurer

Dan Kimball, Plant Manager

Kathleen Poirier, Marketing Manager

Mark Gaudet, Manufacturing Manager

Jenny Thibault, Customer Service Representative

Jack Lewis, Customer Service Representative

Thom Laycock, Customer Service Representative

Mary Eagan, Customer Service Representative

DARTMOUTH PRINTING COMPANY

Every month Dartmouth Printing Company produces more than 120 short-run magazines and journals, each with a press run of less than 100,000 copies. It's what we do best. Because we specialize, we focus all our resources on the needs of the short-run publisher.

SPECIALIZATION Dartmouth Printing Company's main focus is producing short-run magazines and journals on full size web presses. We specialize in runs between 5,000 and 100,000 copies.