Tag: Pitney Bowes

Mountaincow's New StationeryStamps(TM) Products, Powered by Pitney Bowes, Enable Customers to Coordinate Postage with Invitations

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

Pitney Bowes Inc. and invitation software maker Mountaincow LLC announced today they have joined forces to introduce stylish customized postage for invitations. Powered by Pitney Bowes, Mountaincow’s new StationeryStamps(TM) customized postage enable customers to coordinate their postage to match invitations. By expanding the scope of customized postage to include ivory stock, StationeryStamps(TM) offer a powerful new tool to enhance the look of formal invitations for weddings, fundraisers and other social and corporate events. StationeryStamps(TM) are available now for purchase at www.mountaincow.com.

Customers can choose from Mountaincow’s selection of stock images and monograms that coordinate perfectly with the designs in its website invitation gallery. Mountaincow expands its gallery each month by publishing original new designs with matching StationeryStamps(TM) customized postage in its free e-mail newsletter. Customers can also submit their own image, photo, monogram, company logo or motif, subject to USPS guidelines for customized postage. Reorders are fast-tracked by entering a prior order number. Users of Mountaincow’s PrintingPress invitation software can download a template and easily apply any of Mountaincow’s graphics, patterns, borders, monograms, curved text and patterned text to their postage designs.

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Pitney Bowes 12th Leadership Roundtable in Majorca, Spain Kicks Off

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

Pitney Bowes 12th Leadership Roundtable “Strengthening the Industry Through Partnerships” begins on Sunday September 16, at Hotel Castillo Son Vida in Majorca, Spain, and continues with work sessions on September 17, 18 and 19.

A record number of postal organizations are set to participate at the Roundtable, alongside key executives from companies such as FedEx, UPS and Cisco. Highlights will include an Executive Dialogue with Michael J. Critelli, Executive Chairman of Pitney Bowes and a welcome speech by José Damián Santiago, President of Correos.

This roundtable will bring together a mix of postal executives, parcel operators, and other industry stakeholders, to discuss how all aspects of the industry can partner more effectively to build a prosperous future. The goal of the roundtables is to create an event where postal executives can openly articulate and debate challenging management, marketing, strategic and technological issues.

Luis A. Jimenez, Sr. Vice President and Chief Industry Policy Officer, Pitney Bowes, who conceived and organizes the Roundtables, said the idea was to create: “A private forum for major postal stakeholders where challenges could be discussed openly, and where conclusions could be kept in a confidential setting.”

This event will see more than 18 countries represented and participants will include top management from strategic, marketing, product development, technology, and information functions. Confirmed are participants from the posts of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland the UK and the USA. Other participants include: IPC, PostEurop, FedEx, UPS, Cisco and the Print on Demand Initiative (PODi). Participation in this Roundtable is by invitation only and is limited to 50 participants.

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Pitney Bowes picks up French firm

Posted by | Sep 13, 2007 | |

Pitney Bowes Management Services International reports acquiring Asterion SAS for USD 33.2 million in cash.

The transaction also included France-based Asterion’s two subsidiaries, Asterion Sud and Asterion Direct. Pitney Bowes Management Services is a division of Pitney Bowes Inc.

Plans call for Asterion, which provides outsourced transactional print and document process services, to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes, continuing to operate under its existing management, officials said.

Asterion, which employs 740 workers, posted revenue of USD 88 million of revenue during 2006. Asterion employees are located at the company’s headquarters in St. Denis, France, and additional nine French facilities.

Pitney Bowes, founded in 1920, employs 35,000 workers. The company reported annual revenue of USD 5.7 billion in 2006.

Last week, Pitney Bowes formed a new software company by combining two of its acquisitions, Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software and Pitney Bowes MapInfo.

Pitney Bowes acquired Maryland-based Group 1 Software Inc. in 2004 for about USD 321 million. In March, it acquired Troy, N.Y.-based MapInfo Corp. for USD 408 million.

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Pitney Bowes ranks among Top Ten 'Green' outsourcing vendors

Posted by | Sep 11, 2007 | |

Pitney Bowes Management Services (PBMS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes Inc. has been selected as one of the top ten-ranked outsourcing vendors for environmental stewardship, according to a recent Brown-Wilson Group independent study of industry decision makers and analysts. PBMS also ranked first in the category of “Document Processing Outsourcing.”

Vincent De Palma, executive vice president and president, PBMS, explained that environmental stewardship is a key priority for the company. “Environmental responsibility is the right thing for the environment, for our customers and our shareholders.”

De Palma, who presides over the company’s outsourcing unit, stated that a commitment to protecting the environment is also practiced on-site at its 1,600-plus customer locations throughout the U.S.

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Pitney Bowes makes money, cuts people

Posted by | Jul 31, 2007 | |

Pitney Bowes reported an increase in revenues for the second quarter of 2007 on Monday while net income, which in the year-ago quarter showed up as a loss due to accounting for discontinued operations, moved into the black.

Because the quarter included an accounting alignment for MapInfo Corp., which Pitney Bowes bought for about USD 408 million in April, the company’s statement reported a variety of earnings, including adjusted and those from continuing operations.

“The natural extension of an address is its physical positioning,” which ties directly into Pitney Bowes’ software products, Martin said when asked by an analyst how MapInfo fits into the company. For the second quarter of 2007, Pitney Bowes reported net income — excluding discontinued operations — of USD 152 million, or 68 cents per diluted share, on revenues of USD 1.5 billion. In the year-ago period, Pitney Bowes reported a loss of USD 356 million, or USD 1.59 per diluted share, on revenues of nearly USD 1.4 billion.

The mid-level estimate by analysts polled by Thomson was 70 cents per share.

About two weeks ago, Pitney Bowes announced plans to lay off approximately 200 internal information technology workers, including approximately 96 in Danbury, 24 in Shelton and 12 in Stamford. The company is in the process of negotiating to move that internal work to Wipro Technologies. The workers would be moved over to Wipro where some would resume working on Pitney Bowes systems while others, after a transition period, might be offered other work within Wipro.According to documents Pitney Bowes supplied affected workers, the company will not pay severance to anyone refusing to make the move.

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