Contact:
Tom Parry
Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Services
Phone: 949-510-4169
Email: tparry@midicorp.com
Dave Slovin
Vice President of Business Development
Office: 770-810-6640
Email: daveslovin@tnwinc.com
For Immediate Release
Princeton, NJ and Norcross, GA, June 28, 2006 – The Network, Inc., a leading provider of ethics hotlines and employee communications, and Midi, a leading, global provider of compliance and ethics solutions, recently announced an alliance that will allow the companies to provide a broader suite of products to their core markets.
Under this strategic marketing and cooperation agreement, both companies will leverage each other's capabilities to meet the needs of their global customers.
Midi's education and technology solutions promote high-impact and memorable online video training to all levels of the organization. The Network's suite of communication solutions helps reinforce education programs and embeds ethical and legally compliant behavior into a company's culture. Offering awareness programs from The Network's mPower Communications agency will enhance Midi's communications solutions. The Network will expand its services by offering Midi's Ethical Moments®, brief engaging, video scenarios that provide a new medium for maintaining awareness.
"Our mission is to make our clients more successful by providing top-quality solutions that deliver measurable results," said Tony Malone, CEO of The Network. "Midi's offerings complement our existing communications tools with engaging ethics courses supported by technology to deliver it. We are excited about the Ethical Moments product and believe it will be a strategic addition to our communication and learning initiatives."
"Our customers have asked for a solution that can dynamically meet their needs, as their organizations and risk areas may change over time. Through our partnership with The Network, we will bring our customers the industry's leading helpline and communication services," said Midi CEO and President Elizabeth Tomaszewicz. "We are very pleased to partner with The Network. Their strong values, culture and 20+-year history of strong customer service are a great fit with Midi."
About The Network, Inc. (www.tnwinc.com)
The Network (www.tnwinc.com) has helped clients collect information and address critical issues such as ethics, risk management and service quality for nearly 25 years. The company provides global services such as hotlines, insurance claim reporting and employee communications to 2,200 organizations, including all industries and 45% of the Fortune 500.
About Midi (www.midicorp.com)
Midi is a leading provider of enterprise-wide compliance and ethics solutions for Global 2000 companies. Midi Global Solutions provide organizations with the compliance and ethics consulting expertise, technology, globally relevant courseware, and program management tools they need to reduce legal risk and enrich a consistent culture of compliance and ethics worldwide, leading to enhanced corporate trust. Midi clients include leading organizations across multiple industries, including Acuity Brands, Aon Service Corporation Inc., Boeing, Cadence, First Data, General Motors, Ingersoll Rand, Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce, Terex and Microsoft, among many others. Midi solutions and courseware are deliverable in up to 130 languages.