The group's principal activity is soliciting and processing printed advertising from retailers, manufacturers and service companies for targeted distribution to consumer households. The group's mail products and services include both shared and solo mails, distributed in the United States and Canada on a national, regional and local basis. It provides ancillary services in conjunction with its direct mail marketing programs and also provides private carrier delivery in certain markets. The group is the largest commercial user of standard mail in the United States. Shopwise(tm) is the largest covering weekly distribution of the group. In Jun 2002, the group acquired facc corporation.
