Premiere Global Services Selected as a PHONE+ Top 50 Channel Program
ATLANTA, FEBRUARY 6, 2008 - Premiere Global Services, Inc. (NYSE: PGI), a global provider of on-demand business process improvement solutions, has been named one of the Top 50 Channel Programs by PHONE+ magazine, a monthly publication of Virgo Publishing LLC which focuses on the telecommunications indirect sales channel. Premiere Global and other award recipients were announced in the magazine’s Channel Program Guide special issue, available at www.phoneplusmag.com/ebooks.
“We are very pleased to be recognized by PHONE+,” said Ralph Hawkins, SVP Indirect Channel, Premiere Global Services, Inc. “Premiere Global focused additional attention, resources and investment to channel programs, training and communications in 2007 to better support our valued partnerships.”
With a more strategic focus on providing resources for our partners, this valued group is able to improve revenues and increase sales opportunities. Over the past year, Premiere Global has provided additional revenue opportunities, easier go-to-market opportunities, an enhanced partner extranet, improved customer provisioning, and supplied additional product opportunities for channel partners.
“PHONE+ is honored to bestow special recognition upon Premiere Global Services,” said Mike Saxby, group publisher for PHONE+. “Premiere Global’s support for its indirect channel is a key differentiator for the company and a driver of its growth strategy.”
Premiere Global was selected from hundreds of companies considered in the voting process. Voted on by indirect sales partners, the winners represent communications suppliers -- carriers, resellers, master agents and manufacturers – who provide their agents with that extra something -- extra attention, rapid quotes, sales training or special promotions. These attributes make Premiere Global the ‘easy to do business with’ provider for channel partners.
About Premiere Global Services, Inc.
Premiere Global Services, Inc. is a global provider of on-demand business process improvement solutions that enable businesses to automate and simplify their business processes and to communicate more efficiently and effectively with their constituents.
Our Premiere Global Communications Operating System offers hundreds of industry-specific business applications within the following solutions: Conferencing, Desktop Fax, Document Delivery, Notifications & Reminders and eMarketing.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and with presence in 23 countries worldwide, Premiere Global delivers solutions to an established customer base of over 50,000 companies, including nearly 95% of the Fortune 500. Additional information can be found at PremiereGlobal.com.
About Virgo Publishing
Virgo Publishing is a dynamic information services company specializing in communications through print and electronic media, trade shows and special events, education and training, and value-added business services. In general, each print magazine serves as a platform to create communities through the integration of publishing, events and the Web. For information, visit www.vpico.com.
About PHONE+
PHONE+ magazine is the country’s leading publication for communication distribution channels. For more than two decades, PHONE+ has been the undisputed leader in providing news and analysis to alternate distribution channels serving the communications industry. It is the unrivaled resource for resellers, aggregators, agents, brokers, VARs, systems integrators, interconnects and dealers that provide network-based communications and computing services and associated CPE, applications and professional services.
PHONE+ has a companion Web site, www.phoneplusmag.com; a weekly newsletter, PHONE+Line; an annual buyer’s guide; an annual Source Book and an annual Channel Program Guide; and it hosts regular Webinars.
It also hosts the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, the industry’s only event exclusively for the channel. The spring conference is set for March 10-12 at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. For more information, visit www.channelpartnersconference.com.
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Statements made in this press release, other than those concerning historical information, should be considered forward-looking and subject to various risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made based on management's current expectations or beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. A variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in Premiere Global Services' forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following factors: competitive pressures, including pricing pressures; technological change; the development of alternatives to our services; market acceptance of our new services and enhancements; integration of acquired companies; service interruptions; increased financial leverage; our dependence on our subsidiaries for cash flow; continued weakness in our legacy broadcast fax business; foreign currency exchange rates; possible adverse results of pending or future litigation or infringement claims; federal or state legislative or regulatory changes; general domestic and international economic, business or political conditions; and other factors described from time to time in our press releases, reports and other filings with the SEC, including but not limited the "Risk Factors" sections of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2007. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or a person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
