InComm Partners with The Gift Card Group Ltd. as Authorized B2B Merchant to Manage Canadian Corporate and B2B Sales Channel
InComm to Now Reach ‘Underserved’ Incentive, Reward, Hospitality and HR Markets while Expanding Opportunities for its Traditional Retail Card Partners
TORONTO, October 12, 2010 – InComm, the leader in sales and marketing of prepaid products and innovator of transaction processing, has signed an agreement with The Gift Card Group Ltd. to manage Corporate and Business-to-Business sales in the Canadian market. The agreement enables the two companies to better meet the needs of these underserved market segments and create new sales opportunities for InComm's card partners in Canada.
“We’re confident this partnership will allow InComm’s Canadian merchant and product partners to attract new clients and drive incremental revenue by taking advantage of the many benefits of thegiftcardgroup.com online portal,” says Karen Budahazy, General Manager, InComm Canada. “The Gift Card Group offers several unique services that our partners can benefit from.”
“This partnership lets us capitalize on our 20-plus years of experience in fulfillment and logistics, our proven online capabilities and our professional client-care team,” said Dave Hunt, President of The Gift Card Group Ltd. “We can provide clients a dramatically more flexible and responsive gift card solution.”
According to Hunt, “The industry is crying out for a new way to overcome the challenges related to gift card ordering and fulfillment. Thanks to our new relationship with InComm, we can deliver a non-capital-intensive, activate-and-ship-on-demand, individually fulfilled gift-card solution that meets the needs of today’s demanding promotional-agency and corporate clients.”
About The Gift Card Group Ltd.
The Gift Card Group (TGCG) is an Authorized InComm B2B Merchant operating thegiftcardgroup.com, a unique online portal serving promotional agencies and corporate clients.
TGCG inventories a broad selection of gift cards from major retailers across Canada, as well as prepaid reward cards from all of the major carriers. Unlike traditional card resellers however, The Gift Card Group only activates gift cards at the time they are purchased and ready to ship. This means that promotions firms – or corporate clients (in such sectors as hospitality or human resources) that run their own incentive or rewards programs – no longer need to tie-up precious capital by stockpiling their own inventory of cards, or be forced to wait weeks for cards to be ordered and payments cleared before any cards can be shipped. In addition to ‘on-demand fulfillment, TGCG offers both bulk shipping and direct-to-end-recipient shipping of cards, plus a range of customization and personalization options.
The Gift Card Group Ltd. is a member of The Hunt Group, founded in 1988 and headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
About InComm:
InComm is the industry leading marketer, distributor and technology innovator of stored-value gift and prepaid products using its state-of-the-art point-of-sale transaction technology and payment solutions to revolutionize retail product sales and customer experiences. With nearly $10 billion in retail sales transactions processed in 2009, InComm is the nation’s largest provider of gift cards, prepaid wireless products, reloadable debit cards, digital music downloads, content, games, software and bill payment solutions. InComm partners with consumer brand leaders around the world to provide more than 225,000 retail locations the products and services their customers demand. Since 1992, InComm's patented technologies have made the buying process easier for consumers while streamlining the selling process for product and retail partners. InComm is headquartered in Atlanta, GA with offices in Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Oregon, and Texas. To learn more about InComm, visit www.incomm.com or call 1.800.352.3084.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
InComm:
Jenn Boutwell, jboutwell@incomm.com, 1-770-882-2240
The Gift Card Group Ltd.:
Dave Hunt, DHunt@TheGiftCardGroup.com, 800-365-4844 x227
Note: To reach Mr. Hunt during the motivation show in Chicago, Oct 12 – 15, 2010 please call him at 678.386.6161
