Swedesboro, N.J.

Direct Group, a fully integrated direct marketing solutions provider, announced today that it has been awarded a $446,000 New Jersey Department of Labor grant awarded through Sewell, N.J.-based Gloucester County College (GCC).  The grant, which will be used to expand the technical and leadership skills of the company’s 900-plus employees through training courses, is the largest customized training grant ever offered by the college’s Continuing Education Division.

Direct Group, a fully integrated direct marketing solutions provider, announced today that it will install a second Océ JetStream™ 2200 system at its facility in Swedesboro, N.J. this month. The JetStream 2200 is a high-speed, fully variable, color inkjet, continuous press that provides some of the most advanced digital printing capabilities available in the world. The company installed the first such system in the U.S. at the same facility in May of this year. The new system will feature magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) capabilities, a highly precise check-printing tool that has become increasingly important to direct marketers.