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• BRINK’S HOME SECURITY SELECTS CSG’s DATAPROSE PRINT, MAIL AND ELECTRONIC STATEMENT SOLUTIONS
• CSG SYSTEMS COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF DATAPROSE, INC.
• CSG SYSTEMS SIGNS DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE DATAPROSE, INC.
• DataProse, Inc. Joins the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, 50 Million Tree Pledge to Replenish Forests
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BRINK’S HOME SECURITY SELECTS CSG’s DATAPROSE PRINT, MAIL AND ELECTRONIC STATEMENT SOLUTIONS
CSG Systems’ DataProse to Produce 670,000 Statements and Letters per Month for Nation’s Second-Largest Home Security System Provider
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (July 31, 2008) - CSG Systems International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSGS), a leading provider of customer interaction management and billing solutions, and recent acquirer of billing statement output and direct marketing solutions company DataProse, Inc., announced today that DataProse signed a three-year contract with Brink’s Home Security for design, production, mailing and electronic presentment of over 670,000 billing statements and letters per month.
Brink’s Home Security evaluated bids from top statement output providers and chose DataProse based on its strength of production quality, turn-around time, technological expertise, pricing, scalability and support services.
“DataProse stood above the rest, as we were impressed by their production capabilities, technological expertise, established client base and outstanding personnel,” said Joni Davis, Brink’s Home Security Manager of Recurring Customer Processes. “We wanted a company that had the potential to become a long-term partner and found exactly that with DataProse and CSG; they offer the solutions that meet our needs.”
“We are excited to gain an industry leader like Brink’s Home Security as a client and look forward to employing our advanced statement output solutions to help them achieve their business goals,” said Glenn Carter, Vice President and General Manager of DataProse. “Our relationship with Brink’s Home Security represents a significant step forward in CSG’s collective pursuit to provide valuable customer interaction solutions to clients across a variety of industries.”
CSG Systems acquired DataProse in May of 2008, further strengthening its industry-leading portfolio of output solutions capabilities while extending its reach into new vertical markets. Today, DataProse assists over 500 clients across the United States to market through improved billing statement presentation and personalized direct mail, allowing clients to more effectively communicate with customers, lower billing costs, accelerate payment cycles and reduce costly billing errors.
About Brink’s Home Security
Brink's Home Security, Inc., headquartered in Irving, Texas, is one of the largest and fastest growing providers of security system monitoring services in North America. Brink’s Home Security operates in more than 250 metropolitan areas, and services more than 1.2 million customers in all 50 states and two provinces in Canada.
About DataProse
DataProse, Inc., founded in 1990, is a leading provider of direct mail and billing statement services. DataProse provides billing statement design, print, mail and electronic presentment and payment for municipal and private utility, financial services, cable, telecommunications, home security and waste management companies. Additionally, DataProse renders direct mail fundraising and membership acquisition services for nonprofit organizations in the health care, higher education, zoos and aquariums, and social/cultural market segments.
On May 1, 2008 DataProse was acquired by CSG Systems, Inc. and is now DataProse, a CSG Company. Combined with CSG, the company has a nationwide footprint of production facilities located in California, Florida, Nebraska, New Jersey and Texas and produces over 700 million statements annually. Dataprose has sales offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Texas and Washington.
About CSG Systems
Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, CSG Systems (NASDAQ: CSGS) is a customer interaction management company that provides software- and services-based solutions that help clients engage and transact with their customers. With a 25-year heritage in providing customer management and billing solutions to North American cable and direct broadcast satellite companies, CSG has broadened its customer interaction management capabilities to proudly serve this client base as well as new, highly competitive industries including financial services, healthcare, utilities and more. Today, CSG’s solutions reach more than half of all US households each month and manage over $36 billion in transactions annually on its clients’ behalf. For more information, visit our website at www.csgsystems.com.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CSG SYSTEMS COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF DATAPROSE, INC.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (May 1, 2008) - CSG Systems International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSGS), a leading provider of customer care and billing solutions, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of DataProse, Inc. CSG initially announced the acquisition on April 17, 2008.
About CSG Systems
Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, CSG is a leading provider of outsourced solutions that facilitate customer interaction management on the behalf of our clients, generating a large percentage of revenues from the North American cable and Direct Broadcast satellite (“DBS”) communications markets. Our solutions also support an increasing number of other industries such as financial services, utilities, telecommunications, and home security. Our solutions manage key customer interactions such as set-up and activation of customer accounts, sales support and marketing, order processing, invoice calculation (i.e., customer billing), production and mailing of monthly customer invoices, management reporting, electronic presentment and payment of invoices, automated and interactive messaging, and deployment and management of the client’s field technicians to the customer’s home. Our unique combination of solutions, services, and expertise ensure that our clients can rapidly launch new service offerings, improve operational efficiencies, and deliver a high-quality customer experience in a competitive and ever-changing marketplace. For more information, visit our website at www.csgsystems.com.
About DataProse
DataProse, Inc., founded in 1990 and headquartered in Oxnard, California, is a leading provider of billing statement presentment and direct mail services. DataProse provides billing statement design, print, mail and electronic presentment and payment for municipal and private utilities, financial services, energy, telecommunications and waste management companies. DataProse renders direct mail fundraising and membership acquisition services for nonprofit organizations in the healthcare, higher education, zoos and aquariums, and social/cultural market segments. For more information on DataProse, visit www.dataprose.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements as defined under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, that are based on assumptions about a number of important factors and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what appears in this news release. These factors include, but are not limited to: 1) the concentration of approximately two-thirds of CSG’s revenues with four clients; as a result, the loss of business from any one of those clients could potentially have a material adverse impact to CSG’s financial results; 2) continued market acceptance of CSG’s Advanced Convergent Platform (ACP) and related products and services; 3) CSG's ability to continuously develop and enhance products in a timely, cost-effective, technically advanced and competitive manner; 4) CSG’s dependency on the North American communications industry; as a result, key market factors such as further industry consolidation, new market entrants that may not be clients of CSG, economic conditions, and/or the financial status of CSG clients may affect CSG’s ability to maintain and expand market share; 5) increasing competition in our market from companies of greater size and with broader presence in the communications sector, thus exerting greater influence over client buying decisions; 6) CSG’s ability to successfully integrate and manage acquired businesses, technology or assets to achieve the expected strategic, operating and financial goals established for such acquisitions; 7) CSG’s continued ability to protect its intellectual property rights; and 8) CSG’s dependency on a variety of computing environments and communications networks, thus subjecting CSG to the risks of extended interruptions, outages, unauthorized access and corruption of data. This list is not exhaustive and readers are encouraged to review the additional risks and important factors described in CSG's reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q and other filings made with the SEC.
For more information, contact:
Media Relations:
Elise Brassell
CSG Systems
Phone: (303) 804-4962
E-mail: elise_brassell@csgsystems.com
Investor Relations:
Roger Metz
CSG Systems
Phone: (303) 804-4082
E-mail: roger_metz@csgsystems.com
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CSG SYSTEMS SIGNS DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE DATAPROSE, INC.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (April 17, 2008) - CSG Systems International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSGS), a leading provider of outsourced solutions that facilitate customer interaction management, today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire DataProse, Inc., a privately-held provider of statement presentment and direct mail services headquartered in Oxnard, California.
The acquisition of DataProse furthers CSG’s objective of helping its clients maximize every customer interaction by both strengthening and broadening CSG’s portfolio of output solutions capabilities. DataProse enhances CSG’s suite of advanced, turnkey solutions for personalized statement presentment in both paper and electronic formats, and adds extensive expertise in direct mail marketing services, including database management and market segmentation. Furthermore, with this acquisition CSG continues to diversify its customer base into the utilities, financial services and telecommunications markets, and adds customers in the non-profit sectors of healthcare and higher education.
DataProse assists over 500 clients across the United States to market through improved billing statements and personalized direct mail. The majority of its revenues come from its Billing Solutions division that produces statements monthly and provides bill issuers with outsourced solutions to more effectively communicate with customers, lower billing costs, accelerate payment cycles and reduce costly billing errors. DataProse also provides direct mail marketing services to support fundraising efforts of large non-profit organizations. Co-founded in 1990 by Xerox veteran Glenn Carter and Kinko's founder Paul Orfalea, DataProse has over 130 employees and operates production facilities in Oxnard, California and Dallas, Texas. DataProse currently produces more than 6 million statements monthly, which compares to CSG’s current statement production of approximately 60 million statements monthly.
“Through this acquisition, CSG strengthens its industry-leading statement presentment platform while furthering its reach into new vertical markets,” said Pam Sellenrick, senior vice president and general manager of CSG Statement Processing Centers. “Additionally, this acquisition rounds out CSG’s national statement presentment footprint, a key competitive differentiator.”
“We are excited to join forces with CSG, an established leader in statement presentment,” said Glenn Carter, DataProse’s co-founder and president. “Our combined expertise and unmatched portfolio of capabilities will be of great benefit to our client base as they seek to improve and capitalize upon their client communications.”
Financial Terms and 2008 Guidance Impact
CSG will acquire DataProse for approximately $39 million in cash, to be paid upon closing of the transaction, which is expected to be approximately April 30, 2008, pending normal regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
CSG expects the acquisition of DataProse will add approximately $14 to $16 million of revenue for the remainder of 2008, assuming an April 30, 2008 closing. CSG expects to incur certain acquisition-related charges and ongoing amortization of intangible assets related to this acquisition in 2008. Excluding the impacts of these acquisition-related charges, which are not estimatable at this time, CSG does not expect this acquisition will have a material impact on its overall results of operations for the full year 2008.
About CSG Systems
Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, CSG is a leading provider of outsourced solutions that facilitate customer interaction management on the behalf of our clients, generating a large percentage of revenues from the North American cable and Direct Broadcast satellite (“DBS”) communications markets. Our solutions also support an increasing number of other industries such as financial services, utilities, telecommunications, and home security. Our solutions manage key customer interactions such as set-up and activation of customer accounts, sales support and marketing, order processing, invoice calculation (i.e., customer billing), production and mailing of monthly customer invoices, management reporting, electronic presentment and payment of invoices, automated and interactive messaging, and deployment and management of the client’s field technicians to the customer’s home. Our unique combination of solutions, services, and expertise ensure that our clients can rapidly launch new service offerings, improve operational efficiencies, and deliver a high-quality customer experience in a competitive and ever-changing marketplace. For more information, visit our website at www.csgsystems.com.
About DataProse
DataProse, Inc., founded in 1990 and headquartered in Oxnard, California, is a leading provider of billing statement presentment and direct mail services. DataProse provides billing statement design, print, mail and electronic presentment and payment for municipal and private utilities, financial services, energy, telecommunications and waste management companies. DataProse renders direct mail fundraising and membership acquisition services for nonprofit organizations in the healthcare, higher education, zoos and aquariums, and social/cultural market segments. For more information on DataProse, visit www.dataprose.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements as defined under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, that are based on assumptions about a number of important factors and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what appears in this news release. These factors include, but are not limited to: 1) the concentration of approximately two-thirds of CSG’s revenues with four clients; as a result, the loss of business from any one of those clients could potentially have a material adverse impact to CSG’s financial results; 2) continued market acceptance of CSG’s Advanced Convergent Platform (ACP) and related products and services; 3) CSG's ability to continuously develop and enhance products in a timely, cost-effective, technically advanced and competitive manner; 4) CSG’s dependency on the North American communications industry; as a result, key market factors such as further industry consolidation, new market entrants that may not be clients of CSG, economic conditions, and/or the financial status of CSG clients may affect CSG’s ability to maintain and expand market share; 5) increasing competition in our market from companies of greater size and with broader presence in the communications sector, thus exerting greater influence over client buying decisions; 6) CSG’s ability to successfully integrate and manage acquired businesses, technology or assets to achieve the expected strategic, operating and financial goals established for such acquisitions; 7) CSG’s continued ability to protect its intellectual property rights; and 8) CSG’s dependency on a variety of computing environments and communications networks, thus subjecting CSG to the risks of extended interruptions, outages, unauthorized access and corruption of data. This list is not exhaustive and readers are encouraged to review the additional risks and important factors described in CSG's reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q and other filings made with the SEC.
For more information, contact:
Media Relations:
Elise Brassell
CSG Systems
Phone: (303) 804-4962
E-mail: elise_brassell@csgsystems.com
Investor Relations:
Roger Metz
CSG Systems
Phone: (303) 804-4082
E-mail: roger_metz@csgsystems.com
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For Immediate Release: 20 Feb 2008
DataProse, Inc. Joins The Enterprise Rent-A-Car, 50 Million Tree Pledge to Replenish Forests
Oxnard, CA (February 20, 2008) - DataProse is dedicated to being a socially-conscious, corporate citizen by replenishing more natural resources than it uses in its printing and mailing services. At the cornerstone of its program, DataProse has joined the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, 50 Million Tree Pledge that is dedicated to planting one million trees per year for the next 50 years. Enterprise made this donation to the Arbor Day Foundation which will manage the tree planting program.
DataProse also contributes to Penny Pines and American Forests, two nonprofit programs focused on reforestation. Penny Pines is administered by the National Garden Club which works with the USDA Forest Service. Penny Pines plants trees in forests across the U.S. in any state that the donor designates. American Forests, having been formed in 1875, is the oldest nonprofit citizens’ conservation organization in the U.S.
Healthy forests are essential to the well-being of the environment as they filter water, remove air pollution, sequester carbon, and provide homes for wildlife. Wild fires, clear-cutting, timber harvesting and irresponsible forest management have had a catastrophic impact on the world’s forests. For these reasons, DataProse is committed to being part of the solution of forest replenishment.
DataProse commits to plant nearly 35,000 trees in 2008. To put this in perspective, New York’s Central Park has 25,000 trees; therefore, DataProse will plant more than 1.3 Central Parks this year alone.
According to Glenn Carter, President of DataProse, Inc., “We feel a social obligation to replenish the natural resources that we use in the course of our operation. It’s important to us as a company and to our current and prospective clients. We believe without reservation that it’s the right thing to do. We invite others, individuals and businesses, to join us in helping to protect our environment.”
In addition to its donation program, DataProse uses recycled paper and envelopes and recycles waste material to minimize environmental impact.
About DataProse
DataProse, Inc., founded in 1990, is a leading provider of direct mail and billing statement services. DataProse provides billing statement design, print, mail and electronic presentment and payment for municipal and private utility, financial services, cable, telecommunications and waste management companies. DataProse renders direct mail fundraising and membership acquisition services for nonprofit organizations in the healthcare, higher education, zoos and aquariums, and social/cultural market segments.
DataProse produces and distributes mission-critical documents for over 600 clients across the country. The company operates production facilities in Oxnard, CA and Irving, TX, as well as sales offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Texas and Washington.
Contact:
Alan Denton, V.P. of Marketing
(888) 214-6680
adenton@dataprose.com
www.dataprose.com
About Arbor Day Foundation
The Arbor Day Foundation is a nonprofit conservation organization of nearly one million members, with a mission to inspire people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees. More information on the Foundation and its programs can be found at www.arborday.org.
About American Forests
American Forests is a world leader in planting trees for environmental restoration, a pioneer in the science and practice of urban forestry, and a primary communicator of the benefits of trees and forests.
American Forests is the nation’s oldest nonprofit citizens’ conservation organization. Citizens concerned about the waste and abuse of the nation’s forests founded American Forests in 1875. The organization is proud of its historic roots in the development of America’s conservation movement and proud of the new approaches the organization has developed to help people improve the environment in the 21st century. www.americanforests.org
About Penny Pines
Penny Pines is a reforestation/forest education program administered by National Garden Clubs, Inc. in conjunction with the USDA Forest Service and state foresters throughout the U.S. and its territories.
National Garden Clubs Inc. is a not-for-profit organization. With more than 209,000 members and 6,300 member clubs across the U.S., the NGC is the largest volunteer organization of its type in the world. Founded in 1929, the NGC offers extensive educational programs and resources to promote gardening and environmental responsibility. The NGC is headquartered in St. Louis, MO., adjacent to the world-famous Missouri Botanical Garden. www.gardenclub.com
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