DALLAS, July 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Alliance Data
Systems Corporation (NYSE: ADS), a leading global provider of
data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions, today announced its
Columbus, Ohio-based card services
business, a premier provider of branded private label, co-brand,
and commercial credit programs, has signed a new long-term
agreement to provide co-brand affinity credit card services for
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), the leading media company
serving Hispanic America, through UCI's Enterprise Development
division. Alliance Data's Epsilon business also currently provides
marketing services and data services to UCI.
"The new Univision MasterCard Credit Card further
reinforces our mission-driven focus of informing, entertaining, and
empowering the U.S. Hispanic community," said Rick
Alessandri, executive vice president, Univision Enterprise
Development. "As credit and debit card penetration among Hispanics
grows by double digits, we recognized that there was a need to
offer an in-language solution that will allow consumers to help
manage their finances with most communications in their language of
preference."
Alliance Data is developing a marketing-driven co-brand
affinity credit program customized for Univision, designed to
enrich the media brand's relationship with its customers. The new
loyalty program will reward cardmembers for dollars spent, with
redemption options including Univision branded merchandise,
exclusive content and experiences that could include "behind the
scenes video" and VIP access at events.
"Univision has already achieved unprecedented loyalty among its
audience, scoring higher than the 100 leading U.S. brands in
categories that include trust, pride, stability and loyalty," said
Melisa Miller, president of Alliance
Data's card services business. "We view this partnership as one
with tremendous opportunity. The Univision customer has many
options and we know that the trust and loyalty to the Univision
brand, coupled with the unique rewards and benefits of the program,
will attract the Univision audience to this new card program."
About Univision Communications Inc.
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) is the leading media
company serving Hispanic America. The Company, a leading content
creator in the U.S., includes Univision Network, one of the top
five networks in the U.S. regardless of language and the
most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the
country available in approximately 93% of U.S. Hispanic television
households; UniMás, a leading Spanish-language broadcast television
network available in approximately 87% of U.S. Hispanic television
households; Univision Cable Networks, including Galavisión, the
most-watched U.S. Spanish-language cable network, as well as UDN
(Univision Deportes Network), the most-watched U.S.
Spanish-language sports network, Univision tlnovelas, a 24-hour
cable network dedicated to telenovelas, ForoTV, a 24-hour
Spanish-language cable network dedicated to international news, and
an additional suite of cable offerings - De Película, De Película
Clásico, Bandamax, Ritmoson and Telehit; Univision Television
Group, which owns 60 television stations in major U.S. Hispanic
markets and Puerto Rico; digital
properties consisting of online and mobile websites and apps,
including Univision.com, the most visited
Spanish-language website among U.S. Hispanics, UVideos, a bilingual
digital video network and Uforia, a music application featuring
multimedia music content; and Univision Radio, the leading
Spanish-language radio group in the U.S. which owns and operates 67
radio stations including stations in 16 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic
markets and Puerto Rico. UCI's
assets also include a minority stake in El Rey Network, a 24-hour
English-language general entertainment cable network and a joint
venture with Disney/ABC Television Network for Fusion, a 24-hour
English-language news and lifestyle TV and digital network.
Headquartered in New York City,
UCI has television network operations in Miami and television and radio stations and
sales offices in major cities throughout the United States. For more information,
please visit www.Univision.net.
About Alliance Data's card services business
Alliance Data's card services business is a leading provider of
tailored marketing and loyalty solutions, delivered through branded
credit programs that drive more profitable relationships between
our brand partners and their cardmembers. We offer private label,
co-brand, and commercial products to many of the world's most
recognizable brands across a multitude of channels.
We uphold our Know more. Sell more.® promise by
leveraging unmatched customer insights, advanced analytics, and
broad-reaching innovative capabilities. It's how we deliver
increased sales to our partners, build enduring loyalty to their
brands, and provide more value to our cardmembers. Alliance Data's
card services business is a proud part of the Alliance Data
enterprise. To learn more, visit www.alliancedataretail.com or
follow us on Twitter @ADRetail.
About Alliance Data
Alliance Data® (NYSE: ADS) is a leading global
provider of data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions serving
large, consumer-based industries. The Company creates and deploys
customized solutions, enhancing the critical customer marketing
experience; the result is measurably changing consumer behavior
while driving business growth and profitability for some of today's
most recognizable brands. Alliance Data helps its clients create
and increase customer loyalty through solutions that engage
millions of customers each day across multiple touch points using
traditional, digital, mobile and emerging technologies. An S&P
500 and Fortune 500 company headquartered in Plano, Texas, Alliance Data consists of three
businesses that together employ more than 15,000 associates at
approximately 100 locations worldwide.
Alliance Data's card services business is a leading provider of
marketing-driven branded credit card programs. Epsilon®
is a leading provider of multichannel, data-driven technologies and
marketing services, and also includes Conversant®, the
leader in personalized digital marketing. LoyaltyOne®
owns and operates the AIR MILES® Reward Program,
Canada's premier coalition loyalty
program, and holds a majority interest in Netherlands-based BrandLoyalty, a global
provider of tailor-made loyalty programs for grocers.
Follow Alliance Data on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and
YouTube.
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Statements
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Commission.
If one or more of these or other risks or uncertainties
materialize, or if our underlying assumptions prove to be
incorrect, actual results may vary materially from what we
projected. Any forward-looking statements contained in this
presentation reflect our current views with respect to future
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assumptions relating to our operations, results of operations,
growth strategy and liquidity. We have no intention, and disclaim
any obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future results or
otherwise, except as required by law.
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Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this presentation regarding
Alliance Data Systems Corporation's business which are not
historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve
risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and
uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from
those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk
Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most
recently ended fiscal year. Risk factors may be updated in Item 1A
in each of the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for each
quarterly period subsequent to the Company's most recent Form
10-K.
Contact:
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Alliance
Data
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Univision
Communications
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Tiffany Louder –
Investor Relations
214-494-3048
tiffany.louder@alliancedata.com
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Carolina
Valencia
Corporate Communications (212) 455-4712 cvalencia@univision.net
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Steve Calk –
Analysts/Investors
FTI Consulting
212-850-5611 alliancedata@fticonsulting.com
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Shelley Whiddon –
Media
214-494-3811
shelley.whiddon@alliancedata.com
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