Epsilon Overview

Editor's Notes

• #9: Grand Central (sometimes also known as DMP, Distributed Marketing Platform) is an Epsilon proprietary Multi-Channel Campaign Management Tool. Grand Central is a Real-time Consumer Data Management product, as well provides Data Model and Data Management Services. Through Grand Central, corporate marketing can support local marketing, field sales and partners to create, store, localise, manage, distribute and measure marketing communications across all marketing channels.Agility – Epsilon proprietary Customer Data Integration (CDI) solution. Agility provides you a current, accurate and complete view of your customer across marketing channels to enhance strategies and increase return on investment. Agility is an easy-to-use, real time solution that ensures marketing data is viable and accurate and can effectively generate strong returns across all marketing programs. Agility solution combines traditional hygiene components and works in conjunction with Epsilon’s broader multichannel solution set creates a real time environment for the management of data, allowing synchronization of the cadence of email, print mail.Matador – Epsilon proprietary real time multichannel messaging solution that provides marketers the efficacy to deliver targeted personalised message to individual customers in real time across channels.Sonar – is a customer experience enabler. This dynamic customer communications solution that delivers dynamic, targeted and real-time messages on multiple consumer interfaces, creating an integrated and personalised experience for each individual customer.i-influencer is a large scale impactful Word-Of-Mouth marketing program provided by ICOM, a division of Epsilon Targeting. It leverages the power of influencers to deliver measurable results for brands.i-influencer solution defines influencer by their“talkability”factor (i.e. the higher than average behavior of talking and recommending products and services to others). This program finds you those highly influential consumers, reach them, engage them and motivate them to become your brand ambassadors.
• #11: Alliance Data Reports Record Full-Year 2010 Results Revenue Increases 11 Percent to $2.8 billion EPS Increases 40 Percent Core EPS Increases 14 Percent to $5.86 Summary (in millions)2010Revenue$2,791Income from continuing operations $196Net income$194Adjusted EBITDA$8232009Revenue$1,964Income from continuing operations$177Net income$144Adjusted EBITDA$590 Segment-wise, in Q4 2010 marketing segment Epsilon rose 21 percent to $179.6 million and Canadian loyalty marketing services LoyaltyOne grew about 7 percent to $223.9 million.Feb 1 (Reuters) - Alliance Data Systems Corp (ADS.N) forecast a higher first-quarter profit and said it expects marketing unit Epsilon to continue posting robust growth in 2011, helped by a strong backlog.The Epsilon segment will continue to have mid-teens growth in 2011 and will deliver the strongest growth over the next few years, the company said in a conference call. Its private label business, which was the biggest contributor to the company's overall growth in the fourth quarter by nearly doubling its revenue, is expected to post high single-digit growth in 2011. Dallas-based Alliance Data's shares closed at $72.26 on Tuesday, Feb 1st 2011 on the New York Stock Exchange.
• #12: Updated 2011.04.15
• #13: 2009 annual revenue: $514M 2300 ww associates2010 annual revenue: $613M 2700 ww associates (3500 associates after acquisition of Aspen)
• #19: Updated 2011.04.15