Ricoh Makes Strategic Investment in PTI Marketing Technologies

TOKY/SOLANA BEACH, CA—August 21, 2012—Ricoh Co. announced that it has made a significant investment in PTI Marketing Technologies, a leading provider of Web-to-print and marketing personalization solutions for both enterprise users and print service providers. This investment will be used to further enhance the development of new marketing collateral management tools to help enterprises and commercial printers on their continued path towards efficiency and growth.

This deal is another strategic move by Ricoh to provide complete, end-to-end production print solutions for customers, ensuring that they are equipped with all of the necessary resources to become marketing service providers, including marketing automation and brand management. Ricoh enables companies of all sizes around the world to help expand their businesses with tools such as data intelligence, document management software, industry-leading digital printers, and other solutions—all aimed to deliver a competitive advantage for customers.

Together, Ricoh and PTI will bring new technologies, software and services to market to enable companies to drive relevant, multichannel marketing campaigns at the global, regional and local levels. Ricoh has long been committed to helping companies leverage leading marketing and business development tools through such programs as Business Booster and the Ricoh Business Driver Program.

These value-added initiatives are aimed to help companies quickly pursue a more productive and profitable business strategy. With this investment in PTI, Ricoh customers can now extend that capability beyond the enterprise, making it easier to expand their portfolios from just one print channel, such as direct mail, to a full spectrum of multichannel communications, driving value and growth for their businesses and their clients.

“Today’s commercial printers are seeking solutions beyond the traditional print services to help them stay a step ahead of the competition. This is the goal of our ‘Print and Beyond’ initiative—to enable customers to drive new revenues, increase effectiveness, and seek efficiencies to lower costs, no matter what direction they want to take their business or department,” said Yasuhiko Hosoe, associate director and deputy general manager, Ricoh Production Printing Business Group, Ricoh Co.