TeleCheck expands to check paying by phone

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TeleCheck Services Inc., a Houston, TX-based check acceptance service, will now be able to accept checks over the telephone with its acquisition of Quickcard Systems Inc., the Kimberton, PA-based firm that pioneered the service in 1985. The buyout is regarded as part of TeleCheck's strategy to become the forerunner in electronic check innovations. The deal not only expands TeleCheck's marketing and distribution of its checks but also poses opportunities for the firm to create new technology in the electronic check market. Quickcard Systems' Electronic Check Acceptance is currently utilized by catalogers, direct marketers, publishers and other firms that take phone orders.

Commercial Banking, Asset sales & divestitures, Acquisitions & mergers, Company Planning/Goals, Licensing/Sales Agreements, Consumer Checking, Checking accounts, Article, Quickcard Systems Inc., Telecheck Services Inc.

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Thomas Cook Group of London, UK, said it will ex

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Skytel's Mexico division has increased its sales by ten-fold and has gained a better knowledge of customers since it started telemarketing. The paging service company markets 10% of its products and services through telemarketing. Through a telemarketing agreement with telemarketing firm Atencion Telefonica, which has created a software for capturing customer information for clients, the company has established its own customer database. The database provided Skytel a better marketing perspective of its clients.

Marketing procedures, Services information, Paging Services, Paging, Mexico, Tourist Travel, Tourism, Thomas Cook Group Ltd., Skytel Corp.

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