Major Midwest printer and its client, a major mobile phone company

The project: Production and distribution of 2 million holiday catalogs, featuring a personalized cover flap, wrap-around cover design, and insertion into clear plastic envelope.

The solution: Thanks to considerable preplanning, ongoing dialogue and open communication with the client, we kept the job in-house and saved our client time and money by automating several typically manual processes. This project incorporated almost every aspect of our production capabilities, including:

• Data processing
• Die-cutting
• Flatbed cutting
• Folding
• Personalizing
• Saddle-stitching
• Automatic opening
• Cover wrapping
• Closing
• Labeling
• Inserting
• Gluing
• Mailing

Direct marketing company working with major sports energy drink manufacturer

The project: Direct mail and fulfillment program allowing high-school coaches nationwide to recognize top athletes.

The solution: Team personalized, assembled, packaged and distributed 180,000 kits introducing the program to coaches nationwide. The kits included branded materials, including whistles, brochures, press releases, posters, T-shirts, certificates, plaques, and registration forms. Athletes completed the registration forms and forwarded to the sports drink manufacturer. The manufacturer and direct marketing company forwarded brass nameplates with the athletes' names to Team, which then distributed the nameplates to athletes' schools and coaches to be attached to the plaques.

Printer and supply chain management provider

The project: Production and distribution of 25 million branded and traceable credit card applications.

The solution: Team finished and imaged credit card applications, account numbers and bar codes specific to retailers, airports and other public venues where the applications were available. Team cartoned and distributed the finished applications to their originating locations nationwide. Thanks to the account numbers and bar codes, the client was able to trace each application to its specific distribution location, allowing for accurate measurement and tracking.

International direct marketing and customer relationship management firm and its client, an electric utility

The project: Direct mail and fulfillment program that delivered up to 7,000 personalized acquisition packages and enrollment and welcome kits every day to prospective and enrolled customers nationwide.

The solution: With our data management, assembly, personalization, mailing and distribution services, we used a daily data feed from the utility to send the right kit to the right recipient, based on each prospect’s business reply card, location and demographics. In all, we produced and distributed approximately 200 different varieties of kits and up to 578 letters daily.

Professional printer and its client, a large tobacco company

The project: Produce and distribute 36 million catalogs of the tobacco company's branded gear to gas stations, convenience stores, grocery stores and other retail locations nationwide.

The solution: Team leveraged its production, binding, data management and distribution services to saddle-stitch each catalog, image each with a sequential OCR number, pack the catalogs - in sequence - in groups of 50, label each carton of catalogs with a bar code indicating the sequence inside, and distribute the catalogs to retailers.

Major CPG Manufacturer

The project: POP display assembly, pack-out and fulfillment program for a major CPG manufacturer.

The solution: Team was charged with assembling and delivering over 600 packed-out half-pallet and full-pallet displays within a two-week period. Team assembled all displays from flat, scratch corrugate and loaded each display with up to 23 SKU’s of product, totaling up to 250 items per display. The full displays required Team to build and pack each layer in sequence order to ensure the displays remained stable, and the product remained in-place, during shipping.