DS Graphics
to acquire Fidelity Communications Fidelity Communications has been delivering unique marketing communications solutions involving expertise in printing, sales literature fulfillment, creative services, fundraising, and direct mail for more than 75 years. Fidelity currently occupies a 100,000 square-foot facility; with a large percentage of its business being personalized one-to-one direct mail marketing, along with traditional print and fulfillment. This is an ideal fit for DS Graphics as a large portion of its current business in the digital print area is static copy reproduction. DS Graphics was founded in 1974 by Jim Pallis, and the company has grown from annual sales of $1.7 million in 1990 to nearly $30 million — with the addition of nearly $8 million in annual sales from Fidelity. DS has grown through an an array of services including, digital prepress and creative services, sheetfed, web and digital on-demand printing, mail, fulfillment, warehousing, fund raising, data processing, data asset management, Internet web-fulfillment, and more. Fidelity Communications and DS Graphics have robust web-enabled controls that allow for easy and accurate sharing of information for customer convenience. This includes order entry, fulfillment, warehouse and many reporting options. The combination of both organizations will provide immediate benefits as a best of class single source solutions provider. When announcing the plans to DS Graphics employees recently, Chief Executive Officer Jeff Pallis said, “we are delighted to further expand the services offered to our customers and the addition of Fidelity Communications will add both expertise and continued customer friendly service.” “The most exciting part of the combination is that our customers will be able to access the technological advances and diversified experience of an ISO certified and respected organization such as DS Graphics,” said Fidelity Communications CEO Bob Cipriani. |
