Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Michael D. Bevis Joins Edict Systems as Executive Vice President
Over 15 Years of Executive Management Experience Providing
Products and Services to Retailers
DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Advant-e Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: AVEE
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announced today that Edict Systems, its wholly owned and sole
operating subsidiary, has employed Michael D. Bevis as Executive
Vice President effective September 29, 2003. In his new position,
Mr. Bevis will lead the company's efforts in sales, marketing,
strategic planning and customer relationship management.
Mr. Bevis brings many years of sales, marketing and senior
level management experience to Edict Systems. Most recently
at Paxar Corporation, Mike headed the Servisource1 service
group after being promoted from Senior Director of Marketing
for the barcode printer group. Prior to this, he was with
Huffy Corporation for 24 years. During his tenure at Huffy,
Mike served as Vice President of Marketing and Sales for four
separate divisions eventually becoming President and General
Manager of Huffy Service First.
Regarding his new position, Mike stated, "The Edict
team have done an impressive job of becoming a leading solution
provider in the vertical industries they have targeted. I
look forward to joining them and assisting to drive new revenue
and expansion into other markets."
Commenting on the announcement, Jason K. Wadzinski, Chairman,
CEO and President of Advant-e and Edict Systems stated, "Mike
is an accomplished marketing and business development leader
with a proven track record of building businesses and developing
executive level customer relationships. His experience in
strategic planning and development of new markets and customers
offers much promise to the continued growth of our company.
His ability to set direction and generate commitment should
assist us in meeting and exceeding our goals and objectives.
We are very excited to have Mike join our team."
The information
in this news release includes certain forward looking statements
that are based upon assumptions that in the future may prove
not to have been accurate and are subject to significant risks
and uncertainties, including statements to the future financial
performance of the company. Although the company believes
that the expectations reflected on its forward looking statements
are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations
or any or its forward-looking statements will prove to be
correct. Factors that could cause results to differ include,
but are not limited to, successful performance of internal
plans, product development and acceptance, the impact of competitive
services and pricing, or general economic risks and uncertainties.
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