CPI Card Group Announces Acquisition of PCC

CPI Card Group, a portfolio of Tricor Pacific Capital, Inc., a private firm with offices in Vancouver, B.C., and Lake Forest (Chicago), Illinois, has acquired PCC, a leading plastic card manufacturing, personalization, and fulfilment company. PCC is a major supplier to the Western European market and is located in the United Kingdom. PCC is led by a strong management team that will continue with the business as employees of CPI.

Working in collaboration with its customers, CPI identified the opportunity to more effectively meet its customers’ growing international needs. Ted Fick, CPI President and CEO states “as our customers are expanding internationally, we are putting infrastructure in place to support their global expansion by growing along with them. We feel that PCC is the ideal company to continue our international expansion, as we share common customers and core competencies. Adding PCC’s two facilities in the UK will provide increased flexibility to our customers’ international plastic card requests. All of our customers will benefit from access to an even stronger CPI.”

About CPI Card Group
CPI, a global leader in financial and commercial card production, issuance and services, offers a single source for plastic cards from foil cards and holograms, to translucent and smart cards. CPI’s production sites include Denver, Colorado; Fort Wayne, Indiana and Las Vegas, Nevada. CPI Card Group produces high-quality, general purpose, magnetic stripe and smart cards for many applications. Certified to produce contactless products, CPI specializes in distinctive cards and offers the largest production capacity in North America. CPI’s plants in Colorado and Nevada are ISO 9001:2000 certified.

About PCC
PCC delivers card-based customer contact services for the retail, telecoms, finance and membership markets. PCC excels in manufacturing plastic cards, card related products such as gift card carriers and personalizing and fulfilling card-based services. PCC is the UK’s largest provider of commercial cards and services and is the leading provider of plastic card based services in the reloadable and prepaid markets. It is the only plastic card company in the UK that is accredited for ISO 9000, 14000 abd FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council), with facilities in Colchester and Liverpool, England.

PCC Services
(The Plastic Card Company Limited)
2 Seddon Place
Skelmersdale
Lancashire
WN8 8EB
Tel: +44 (0) 1695 50622
Fax: +44 (0) 1695 50620

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