General Company Information   Pitney Bowes is about Mail and Messaging. Our core business in mail, production mail, facsimile, copiers, business and financial services is solid and expanding. It’s the nucleus from which Pitney Bowes is aggressively developing new markets, opening new revenue streams and accelerating growth, Customers Pitney Bowes’ increasingly sophisticated perspective on the marketplace is reflected in the new ways they define and serve customer needs and goals. The above is evidenced by the fact that Pitney Bowes’ products, services, technologies and business systems are in use by approximately 2 million customers worldwide. Companies spend anywhere from 6 to 10% of their revenues creating, sorting, retrieving, processing and distributing printed information. (GartnerGroup’s dataquest) Through the speed and efficiency of Pitney Bowes’ automated document factory type products and technology, a leading insurance company can send out at least $47.3 million worth of billings per day. Research Research and Development continues to drive Pitney Bowes’ momentum with 124 new patents in 1998 providing the thrust, fueled by entrepreneurial approaches to new opportunities, aggressive digital meter migration, software and hardware integration, and new product development including PC-based products. Pitney Bowes has a 13 year unbroken track record as one of the top 200 corporations receiving US patents, with more than 3,000 patents in their portfolio. Pitney Bowes holds a number of basic PC and Internet postage patents. In fact, many of their early PC based postage patents date back to the 1980s. Only recently has market potential materialised and product development begun. Markets Pitney Bowes’ core business investments have lead them into whole new worlds - from the burgeoning small office/home office to the Internet and e-commerce to the widening international marketplace. Pitney Bowes is now focussed on these diverse opportunities and are poised to flourish. In 1998, $13.3 billion worth of postage was processed worldwide through the Pitney Bowes Postage by Phone meter resetting system. Seven out of 10 US adults believe that the appearance of the envelope will tell them whether or not the mail piece is worth opening. (Pitney Bowes/NFO Research, "Envelope Openability Study", 1998.)   Distributor Operation Organisation Chart (PowerPoint)     Copyright © 2000 Pitney Bowes Ltd. All rights reserved.