Palm Coast, Florida-based Palm Coast Data, a full service fulfillment, marketing and support service for publishers, is undertaking a reorganization at the behest of its parent corporation, Dublin, Ireland-based Studio Media Group.
The company has announced that it will be shuttering its primary location, laying off 150 employees, and outsourcing its inbound and outbound mail processing operations to Des Moines, Iowa-based CDS Global.
The company is seeking smaller quarters nearby. Prior to the company's sale, the company appeared to be in serious financial difficulty.
Like other fulfilment operations, automation and changing consumer behavior played a major role as more consumers transacted business on the internet and transitioned from manual checks to electronic payments. Even customer service was automated with interactive voice response systems that could provide self-service customer support functions. And, of course, email replaced much of the existing snail-mail that was the lifeblood of the fulfillment center.
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