All of us at Gannett Direct Marketing Services look forward with anticipation to the September 13^th meeting with the Gannett Circulation Billing Task Force, and the challenge of identifying ways to streamline the PIA process. Exploring the many facets of Payment In Advance will be a Particularly Interesting Assignment that, hopefully, will lead to Profit Increasing Activity for both the newspaper group and GDMS. At GDMS, our goal is to fully understand the PIA process as currently administered throughout the newspaper group, explore every viable option that may lead to production and administrative efficiencies and ways to reduce costs, while providing an opportunity to retain expenditures within the Gannett organization.

This presentation is designed to provide an overview of Gannett Direct Marketing Services in order to make your upcoming visit more meaningful, and to foster more efficient use of time during your stay to fully explore the PIA process and determine how we may best be able to gain improvement.