MMI Direct to Join PMG as Independent Affiliate

New Team to Provide Full Complement of Data Processing and Production Management Services

For Immediate Release
Friday, October 16, 2009

MMI Direct announced today that it will be joining forces with the Production Management Group to offer a full complement of data processing and production management services to direct marketing organizations and the agencies that serve them. Effective November 1, MMI Direct will become an independent affiliate of PMG and relocate to the same office building in Columbia, MD.

According to Rick Powell, President and CEO of PMG, this was an easy decision: “With MMI Direct’s long-time president, Chuck Dashner, planning to retire soon, the key executives of both companies feel this is a great opportunity for our respective firms, as well as our client partners. Our service offerings are highly complementary, and we share both a focus on quality and a commitment to our customers’ success. In fact, MMI Direct and PMG already work with several mutual clients, and many employees of both companies have worked closely together over the years.”

Marvin Dawson, MMI Direct Vice President for Operations, added, “We are planning for a seamless move and transition and are confident that by joining forces, each company can improve the range and flexibility of its service offerings.”

MMI Direct provides data hygiene, merge/purge and related data processing services to more than fifty nonprofit and commercial firms throughout the United States and Canada. A sister division manages list rental fulfillment for approximately three-dozen organizations. The company currently employs 19 people with locations in Maryland, Virginia and California.