Article: Cedar Rapids, Iowa-Based Telemarketing Firm Sold to Florida Counterpart.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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 ...

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