ACS is pleased to announce that Ouest France is the latest publisher to choose Advantage.  Ouest France is a large regional newspaper company based in Rennes in Brittany.  They publish 4 daily papers and their flagship--called Ouest France--is the largest daily newspaper in France, with 800,000 copies and 44 editions a day.    Implementation has already begun and the ACS project team includes Levi Hyssong (project manager), Philippe van Mastrigt (project director), and Karl Davis (lead engineer). For Ouest France, the team includes Antoine Péculier (project manager), Jean-Dominique Hardy (project director), Anne-Yvonne Surel, IT project manager) and Laurence Cuchard (system administrator.)  We welcome Ouest France to  the Advantage community.

http://www.ouest-france.fr/

We are very happy to welcome Laurin Publishing to the family of Advantage publishers.

Laurin Publishing specializes in the photonics industry.  Photonics is a term encompassing the fields of optics, lasers, imaging, fiber optics, electro-optics and photonics component manufacturing.  Founded in 1954 by a retired Eastman Kodak physicist, the company was purchased by current president Tom Laurin’s parents in 1967 and became Laurin Publishing. 

Laurin Publishing has 80 employees and is headquartered in Pittsfield, Mass., with several editorial and sales branch offices. They publish 3 magazines (Photonics Spectra, BioPhotonics and EuroPhotonics), an annual directory (the Photonics Directory) and several e-newsletters.

We welcome Laurin Publishing as an Advantage client.

We are extremely pleased to welcome Value Line as a new Advantage client.  Value Line is a New York corporation founded in 1931 by Arnold Bernhard.  The company serves both individual and professional investors with investment research and data, and it is best known for publishing The Value Line Investment Survey, one of the most highly regarded and widely used independent investment newsletters.  Its well-known Timeliness Ranking System ranks stocks on a scale of 1 to 5 for probable market performance over the next 6 to 12 months. The company also produces numerous specialized print and online investment publications and information services covering mutual funds, convertible securities, options, special situations and more.

We welcome Value Line to the family of Advantage publishers!

Milan is a large publisher of regional and youth magazines based in Toulouse, France. It was purchased by Bayard in 2004.  The year-long Bayard Milan in-conversion project went live on Advantage in early May.   Data entry began on the 4^th, and the combined processing with both Bayard and Milan orders ran successfully. The Milan websites were also integrated with Advantage during the project and have seen increased traffic compared to their previous sites.  With Milan activity now on Advantage, Bayard is planning to implement a strategy of marketing and organizational optimization.

Benoit Marchal, Anne-Marie Massiot and Corinne Cabirol teamed up on the project on the Milan side. They have been strongly supported by Bayard team, managed by Emmanuel Chevalier.

On the ACS side, Project Manager Levi Hyssong was largely responsible for the project being accomplished on time.  Philippe van Mastrigt assisted Bayard on site in Paris. Others at ACS who worked on the project were Angie Markel, Kathie Porter, Karl Davis, Bryan Varblow and Dave Rees.

Congratulations to Bayard Milan and the project teams!

We are extremely pleased to welcome Duke University Press as a new Advantage client.  Duke University Press publishes more than 40 academic journals and 120 new book titles each year.  This places the Press's journals publishing program among the five largest and the books publishing program among the twenty largest at American university presses. 

Located in Durham, North Carolina, the Press publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences and issues a few publications for professional audiences (e.g., in law or medicine).  Duke University Press is best known for its publications in the broad and interdisciplinary area of theory and history of cultural production.

Duke University Press contacted Oxford University Press when they began searching for a new books and journal fulfillment system.  OUP sent them our way and we are glad they did!  Duke needed a system which would integrate all aspects of a customer’s interaction with their website and e-platforms and would allow them to expand their multi-product approach with packages, bundles and more granular content.  After a thorough review, Advantage was chosen for its breadth and integration, not to mention our satisfied clients.  We welcome Duke University Press to the family of Advantage publishers.