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Green Point Awarded Service Contract with Major Online Retailers (6/2007)

Green Point entered today into a new area of content enhancement services, through engagements with two major online retailers to construct and maintain normalized databases of comparative product attributes, for their several hundred thousand SKU inventory of professional and consumer products. The databases will serve as backends for a sophisticated, state of the art expert system that will guide prospective purchasers to the products that best meet their needs.

Green Point Legal Services Division Grows; Major Clients Signed (6/2007)

Green Point's Legal Services Division has engaged with one of the world's largest legal publishers to provide a full range of editing and editorial services, as well as original content creation services. This client joins the growing roster of prestigious legal information providers who have discovered the benefits of Green Point's dual shore model - legal resources in India, working under the supervision of bar-admitted US attorneys working in Israel. Green Point's value added legal services, which make US legal talent in Israel available to US law firms on an as-needed hourly basis, at rates for lower than equivalent US rates, is also growing at a steep rate.

New Green Point Transcription Service Offerings (5/2007)

Green Point is now providing financial transcription services to most of the largest providers of quarterly and annual earnings conference calls. The dramatic growth in this service area in such a short time is due to Green Point's ability to utilize mother-tongue English speakers to either directly transcribe, or review and edit, all transcripts prior to delivery. Green Point has also recently engaged with a major provider of network news transcripts to similarily provide high-quality, validated transcription services, and has augmented its transcription and editorial teams in both India and Israel.

Dual Shore Model Extended to QC on Publishing, Other projects (5/2007)

As a result of increasing client demand for the highest level of quality on metadata application projects that require high levels of English literacy and American acculturization, Green Point has developed and implemented processes that enables the outsourcing of previously unoutsourceable work, at considerable cost savings and without quality compromises. For a prominent aggregator of newspaper advertisement material, Green Point has implemented a process whereby the source materials are transmitted electronically to our Mumbai facility, where they are enqueued and distribued to production operators, where metadata is added. Their product is again enqueued and distributed to American born QC operators working in Israel. The enhanced product is transmitted to the client and errors logged are returned to Mumbai as a learning aid. This model is currently being extended to several other projects with similar stringent requirements.

Green Point Moves into New Israel Office (7/2007)

Green Point took occupancy today of our new and greatly expanded facility in Israel. The facility is housed in the Jerusalem Technology Park - a high-end location with many prestigious technology companies. The new location is home to our rapidly growing legal and financial services divisions, as well as QC and several project management teams.

Dahlia Gottleib Joins Green Point as Director, Legal Services (2/2007)

Green Point is proud to announce the addition of Dahlia Gottleib to our staff, as head of our Financial Services Division. Based out of our Israel facility, Dahlia, a Columbia University Graduate and Kellogg Graduate School Of Management MBA, previously worked at IBM, HP and CAP Gemini Consulting. She is charged with building our transcription services group, as well as our financial research and financial editorial services groups.

Green Point Relocates US Headquarters (4/2006)

Green Point has moved its home base from Rye, NY to Fort Lee, NJ. The new location - in a beautiful office building on the banks of the Hudson and at the foot of the George Washington Bridge - is more accessible to New York City and provides room to accommodate Green Point's continued expansion. Contact details are available here.

Green Point Purchases New Production Facility In India (4/2006)

Green Point completed the purchase of a new facility, nearly triple the size of its current plant, in the Navi (New) Mumbai section. Navi Mumbai is an ambitious, modern business and commercial park, designed from the ground up to accommodate high-tech enterprises that require fail-safe 24 x 7 operation. Buildings have redundant power and connectivity, enhanced security, and many amenities to enable recruitment and retention of high quality staff. The new facility is currently under construction and it expected to be ready for occupancy in late May 2006. Green Point plans a housewarming ceremony to commemorate the expansion and move. Stay tuned to this space for details.

Green Point CTO Eli Willner to Speak at IDPF "Connected and Mobile" Conference (4/2006)

Eli Willner, Green Point's President and CTO, has been invited to serve as a panelist, along with representative of Adobe and other companies, on the Industry Standardization Panel, to provide his insight on the interoperability of content, digital rights management, NIMAS and the consumer format. The session will be held at 4:15 PM, Wednesday, May 24th, 2006, at The McGraw-Hill Auditorium at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, NYC. Click here for further information.

Novel "dual shore" Production Model Now Functional (4/2006)

Green Point's unique new production model, which has been in the planning and testing stages for some time, is now being rolled into live usage. The model utilizes intercontinental project teams, consisting of production analysts in Mumbai, American expatriates living overseas to handle supervision, training, quality control and project oversight, and dedicated project managers in the USA to handle client interaction and overall project management. The model achieves quality levels previously unattainable using offshore-only labor, without significantly impacting cost. The model is currently being used in the legal services and financial publishing arenas, and will be extended to other areas where native American language skills, or specialized professional American certifications (bar, CPA, etc.) are required.

Green Point makes Foray into Legal Services Arena (4/2006)

Utilizing it's unique "dual shore" model (see article above) Green Point is now entering into engagements to perform outsourcing of legal services, including research and brief writing in addition to its traditional legal editorial services, such as abstracting and indexing of legal content.

Green Point Enters into Supplier Relationship with Major Aggregator of Regional Newspapers; Moves to 24 x 7 Operation (4/2006)

Green Point is now the primary supplier of production services for this company, whose high-end service model includes digitization of ad with "hot" links to advertisers, classified ad offerings and digitization of news content material. This project is high-volume, has stringent quality requirements and imposes turnaround times as short as 4 hours. With this project Green Point has moved completely to three-shift "no gaps" production schedule.

Green Point Enters into Editorial Services Relationship with Major Financial Company (4/2006)

This relationship, which also uses Green Point's unique "dual shore" model (see article above) initially consisted of technical writing, copyediting servcies for a particular document set. Upon successful completion of the initial project the relationship was expanded to include similar services for additional document sets, as well as indexing and proofreading services. It is anticipated that the scope of this relationship will shortly expand to encompass additional document sets as well as additional services.

Green Point Acquires CAD/Engineering Services Resources; Hires Engineering Services Sales Manager (8/2005)

Green Point acquired the assets, personnel and client base of a major Mumbai-based CAD/CAM and Engineering Services outsourcing firm, and immediately integrated its operations into their main Mumbai facility. The team, with many years of experience in mechanical and architectural drawing conversion and creation, spanning multiple disciplines, is headed by Sachin Shilotri, a well-known CAD/CAM production veteran. US sales are headed by Jim Lantry, who occupied similar positions in Hewlett-Packard Corporation and AutoTrol Corporation.

Ken Wollins Joins Green Point as Vice President, Sales and Marketing (7/2005)

Green Point is proud to announce that Ken Wollins, former Senior Manager, Business Development, of the Publishing Services Group of a prominent Boston-based business process outsourcing firm, has joined its staff as VP of Sales and Marketing. Ken has been active in the publishing sector for over 15 years during which he has focused on bringing customers measurable results through advertising, interactive media programs, and specialized outsourcing services. Ken has also worked at Ziff Davis and Harvard Business School Publishing.

Green Point Commences Major XML Conversion Project for Harvard Business School Press (5/2005)

Green Point has embarked on an ambitious program to convert back issues of the Harvard Business Review from their original composition formats to XML, for online distribution locally and through aggregation. The conversion involves updating HBSP's complex journal DTD, developing a conversion specification and converting the backfile on a tight production schedule.

Green Point Signs Major Outsourcing Agreement with Prominent USA-based Transportation Corporation (3/2005)

Green Point today inked a major outsourcing contract with one of the world's largest transportation companies. The contract is open-ended and calls for the provision of financial and auditing services in five major company areas. Eli Willner, Green Point CTO said, "We are delighted that, after a protracted and meticulous vetting, Green Point was selected over all competitors for this relationship. We expect to be deepening the extent and number of services for this client over the next several years".

Eli Willner joins Green Point as Chief Technology Officer (6/2004)

Green Point announces with pride that Eli Willner has joined its staff as Chief Technology Officer. Eli was most recently Associate Vice President of Project Analysis at Innodata Corporation. He also served as Chief Technologist of the Barnes & Noble Digital Content Division, Technical Director of Data Conversion Laboratory. Eli is a foremost expert in electronic publishing, data conversion and business process outsourcing. Green Point is proud to add Eli to its distinguished team of industry experts.

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