CORONA DEL MAR, Calif., March 24, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ICC Worldwide, Inc. (Pink Sheets:ICCW) today announced plans to further expand the firm's initiatives for the European immigrant worker communications market. These activities include the addition of substantial numbers of new customers in Italy, Belgium, and Spain.
ICC currently provides a variety of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and other targeted mobile phone-related services to retail establishments which serve the ethnic immigrant worker communities in Italy and Belgium. These products and services are delivered utilizing an advanced, web-based technology to a well established channel of ethnically-oriented retail shops. This network of "call shops" are locally owned and operated throughout their respective geographic areas. In Italy and Belgium alone, a potential market of more than 4,000 such shops currently exists. With expansion into Spain, ICC's target market will grow to include well over 7,000 potential call shop customers.
Rich Lauer, ICC's President & CEO stated, "Our active customer base already includes several hundred shops in Northern Italy and Belgium. Furthermore, our target market is extremely large and ICC's currently established base represents only a fraction of the potential call shop customers we can effectively service. Our delivery systems and technology infrastructure are now well developed, highly scalable, and broadly deployed. These capabilities will now support a much more aggressive expansion of our customer base in Italy and Belgium. In addition, we are also initiating marketing efforts to acquire a completely new set of customers in Spain. Over time, ICC will add additional complementary product lines as well as continue further geographic expansion into other European countries."
About ICC Worldwide:
ICC Worldwide, Inc. (Pink Sheets:ICCW) provides a specialized range of wholesale communications services and products to an extensive retail channel serving the diverse immigrant worker communities in Italy, Belgium, and other parts of Europe. The firm's principal operating units are located in Italy, Belgium, and Romania; while ICC's U.S. headquarters is based in the Southern California community of Corona del Mar.
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