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HDR, Inc. Signs National Services Agreement With American Reprographics Company
| Source: American Reprographics Company
WALNUT CREEK, CA--(Marketwire - June 27, 2008) - American Reprographics Company (NYSE : ARP ), the nation's leading provider of reprographics services and
technology, announced today that HDR, Inc., a leading architectural,
engineering and consulting firm, has signed an exclusive and comprehensive
partnership agreement for
on-site and outsourced printing and print management services.
"Obviously we are thrilled to be doing business with HDR as an ARC Premier
Account," said K. "Suri" Suriyakumar, President and Chief Executive Officer
of American Reprographics Company. "With 6,900 people in more than 150
locations, HDR is a perfect fit for ARC's national scale and comprehensive
service offerings. It is very gratifying to know that our people and our
company inspired the confidence and consideration of such a large,
well-regarded design firm. We're looking forward to a fruitful
partnership."
Terence C. Cox, CFO of HDR, Inc., said, "We're very excited about the
potential of the relationship."
Founded in 1917, HDR is one of the architectural and engineering industry's
biggest names. It is currently ranked No. 16 in the Engineering News-Record
Top 500 Design Firms survey. Its agreement with ARC is another example of a
trend in larger organizations to outsource
print-related needs and manage the process via the digital infrastructure
of a national document services provider.
"Working with a single, full-service supplier like American Reprographics
Company has obvious efficiency and cost advantages," said John Clatanoff,
HDR's lead project manager for print services acquisition. "But this total
conversion of our print services also goes a long way toward complying with
our Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements. It's a critical part of
our growing public sector business. We were very fortunate to develop an
existing relationship with ARC into something that brings so many benefits
to both companies."
The agreement provides HDR with a single source for all of its on-site and
off-site print services, in both large and small format, black and white
and color reproduction. ARC will also provide a solution that tracks each
print, project and document to ensure timely print distribution and
cost-recovery to HDR's offices.
Known for its expertise in large-format reproduction and construction
document management, ARC was able to showcase its small-format capabilities
with this agreement. Roughly one quarter of the print volume that ARC will
provide HDR will be in documents 11" x 17" or smaller.
About American Reprographics Company
American Reprographics Company is the leading reprographics company in the
United States providing business-to-business document management services
to the architectural, engineering and construction, or AEC, industries.
The Company provides these services to companies in non-AEC industries,
such as technology, financial services, retail, entertainment, and food and
hospitality, which also require sophisticated document management services.
American Reprographics Company provides its core services through a suite
of reprographics technology products developed under its ARC Technology
Holdings division, as well as a network of more than 300 locally-branded
reprographics service centers across the U.S., and on-site at their
customers locations. The Company's service centers are arranged in a hub
and satellite structure and are digitally connected as a cohesive network,
allowing the provision of services, both locally and nationally to more
than 140,000 active customers.