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Article: Cedar Rapids, Iowa-Based Telemarketing Firm Sold to Florida Counterpart.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- November 17, 2000
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Nov. 17--CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa--Access Direct, a 5-year-old Cedar Rapids-based telemarketing firm, has been sold to a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., company.
Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
Precision Response Corp., a division of USA Networks Inc.'s Information and Services unit, is a leader in outsourced customer service.
Its clients include American Express, AT&T, British Airways, priceline.com and DIRECTV.
Access Direct, founded in 1995, employs about 1,200 at six Iowa call centers and at corporate offices in Cedar Rapids; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Wilmington, Del.
Access Direct provides outbound and inbound, business-to-business ...