Alliance Data Systems Corporation

Alliance Data(R) (NYSE: ADS) and its businesses are North America's largest, most comprehensive provider of transaction-based, data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions serving large, consumer-based industries. The Company creates and deploys customized solutions engaging millions of customers each ... more day across multiple touch points using traditional, digital, mobile and other emerging technologies, enhancing the critical customer marketing experience; the result is measurably changing consumer behavior while driving business growth and profitability for some of today's most recognizable brands. Headquartered in Plano, Alliance Data employs approximately 7,400 employees at 50 locations worldwide. Alliance Data provides marketing-driven credit solutions, and is the parent company of Epsilon(R), provider of multi-channel, data-driven technologies and marketing services, and LoyaltyOne(R), which owns and operates the AIR MILES(R) Reward Program, Canada's premier coalition loyalty program.less