Press Releases at TFC

12/04/06	Purple Wine Selects TFC, Inc. As Its Premier Direct Marketing Services Provider
11/14/06	Marketing Industry Veteran Les Isozaki Joins TFC, Inc. as Chief Financial Officer
09/20/06	TFC, Inc. Chosen as Icon Estates’ Marketing Services Provider
09/11/06	TFC, Inc. Continues Commitment to Customer Success Through Key Investment

Purple Wine Selects TFC, Inc. As Its Premier Direct Marketing Services Provider

TFC marketing suite proves to be a driving force in streamlining direct marketing operations for food and beverage companies Napa, CA, December 4, 2006 Marketing services provider TFC, Inc., today announced that the Purple Wine Company has selected TFC as the premier provider for Purple Wine's marketing services including printing, production, sales material management, and delivery. As part of the relationship, TFC will support the production and distribution of Purple Wine's point of sale (POS) marketing and wine sample materials. In addition, TFC will provide Purple Wine with a variety of direct marketing services including online POS inventory management and strategic account management services.

“Our business is growing rapidly and we needed a partner to help us automate the marketing process,” said Susan Durbrow of Purple Wine Company. “TFC has provided us with a full-service, scalable solution that gives our sales and marketing teams the time to strategically plan and spend marketing dollars while TFC handles the day-to-day account management of our POS programs. TFC's tools put us in a better position to forecast future spending and to maximize our marketing dollars.”

TFC offers a suite of marketing solutions including a web-enabled inventory and order management system, customizable color digital printing, and distribution solutions for POS campaigns. TFC also offers a dedicated account team that is experienced in marketing to the food and beverage industry. This team fully understands the marketing process and sales cycle and will address specific client business challenges. The announcement of the Purple Wine relationship follows TFC's recent partnership with major wine provider Icon Estates.

“Food and beverage companies have tremendous pressure to market effectively across large sales organizations and across many geographic regions,” said Connie Hill, President and Founder of TFC, Inc. “At the same time they need to maintain control of their brand at a corporate level. TFC helps them accomplish this and our relationships with Icon Estates, Purple Wine Company, and others are prime examples of the value we can bring to companies in this market.” Working with Purple Wine's creative services and marketing teams, TFC will support seven Purple Wine brands. Each brand has a minimum of one to two major direct marketing campaigns annually. In addition, TFC will provide marketing services for other flow items used throughout the year. TFC will store literature items as well as a small amount of wine for wine sample distribution and will provide temperature controlled storage as needed.

“We are thrilled to work with another innovative marketer in the food and beverage industry,” added Hill.

The TFC inventory management system will provide Purple Wine with an unmatched degree of flexibility, 24/7 real-time access and accountability for shipment and delivery. Purple Wine sales managers will have direct access to marketing materials and a fast and easy way to place orders. The closed-loop system will decrease time to market, reduce production overages, and automatic communication between channels. In addition, order tracking capabilities will enable Purple Wine to locate orders at any time in the fulfillment process. TFC will monitor all of Purple Wine's various items, set re-order quantities and provide real-time reporting.

About Purple Wine Company
Purple Wine Company was founded in 2001 by Derek Benham, an entrepreneur whose experience and success in brand development, streamlined production methods and selective distribution strategies provides the foundation for this venture. Current brands include Avalon, Bex, Blue Jean, Capolan, Mark West and Rock Rabbit wineries. Today annual production for all brands exceeds 300,000 cases. Key personnel include Dennis Carroll, President; Ron Janowczyk, VP of Sales and Alex Cose, Winemaker. For more information on our brands, please visit www.purplewinecompany.com.

Marketing Industry Veteran Les Isozaki Joins TFC, Inc. as Chief Financial Officer

Napa, CA, November 14, 2006 Marketing services provider TFC, Inc., today announced that Les Isozaki has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Isozaki has over 30 years of experience in financial business management and comes to TFC from K/P Corporation, a marketing solutions provider, where he served as CFO from 1995 to 2006. As CFO of TFC, Mr. Isozaki will be responsible for TFC's financial reporting and directing TFC's overall financial policies, procedures in addition to overseeing the accounting function.

While at K/P, Mr. Isozaki helped the company grow from a $30 million firm to an $80 million direct marketing solutions provider. Before K/P he was Senior Manager in an International CPA firm for ten years. He is a certified public accountant and holds a B.S. in accounting from the University of California at Berkeley.

“Les has a distinguished background that is extremely relevant to our business,” said Connie Hill, Founder and CEO of TFC, Inc. “Les will be a critical resource for our strategic acquisition initiative and instrumental to us as we continue to expand. We are thrilled to have him join our executive team.”

“TFC has recently acquired new customers and technology that puts the company at the forefront of an incredibly strong growth opportunity,” said Isozaki. “I am excited to be a part of TFC and I look forward to the exciting work ahead as we launch new products and services.”

TFC, Inc. Chosen as Icon Estates’ Marketing Services Provider

Napa, CA, September 20, 2006 Marketing services provider TFC, Inc. today announced that Icon Estates, a Constellation Wines company, has signed on with TFC to be the key fulfillment provider for Icon Estates’ point-of-sale and marketing collateral. As part of the agreement, TFC will manage the distribution for the point-of-sale (POS) and marketing materials for all the Icon Estates wineries. Icon Estates is the fine wine division of Constellation Wines U.S. The properties within Icon Estates are Franciscan Oakville Estate, Mount Veeder Winery, Robert Mondavi Winery, Simi Winery, Estancia Estates in California; Columbia Winery in Washington State; Ruffino Estates of Italy; Drylands and Kim Crawford in Marlborough, New Zealand; Tintara in McLaren Vale, Australia; Inniskilling and Jackson-Triggs in Canada.

TFC offers a suite of marketing solutions including a web-enabled inventory and order management system and customizable color digital printing and mailing solutions for POS and direct-to-consumer campaigns.

” TFC really took the time to understand our business structure and proactively suggested ways to enhance our performance,” said Christine Lilienthal, Director of Creative Services at Icon Estates. “TFC offers a secure, real-time inventory and fulfillment solution that simplifies the entire ordering process. Our sales team will really benefit from the improved and efficient customer service experience and will receive materials in record time.”

” The core of an effective POS marketing program is a good inventory management system, coupled with sound industry knowledge, experience and innovation,” said Constance Hill, President and Founder of TFC, Inc. “TFC has the technology and experience and we are excited to work with a leading producer and marketer of premium wines like Icon Estates to help them increase their marketing ROI.”

The TFC inventory management system will provide Icon with an unmatched degree of flexibility, 24/7 real-time access and accountability for shipment and delivery. Icon sales managers will have direct access to marketing materials and a fast and easy way to place orders. The closed-loop system will decrease time to market, reduce production overages, and automatic communication between channels. In addition, order tracking capabilities will enable Icon to locate orders at any time in the fulfillment process. TFC will monitor all of Icon’s various items, set re-order quantities and provide online reporting.

” TFC’s customer service is top notch. Their personal attention to detail, incredible follow up and knowledge of our business challenges has made every part of this implementation run smoother than we possibly imagined,” added Katie Hawkins, Creative Services Coordinator at Icon Estates.

About Icon Estates
Icon Estates is the fine wine division of Constellation Wines U.S. The Icon Estate portfolio includes Franciscan Oakville Estate, Mount Veeder Winery, Robert Mondavi Winery, Simi Winery, Estancia Estates wineries in California; Columbia Winery in Washington State; Ruffino Estates of Italy; Drylands and Kim Crawford in Marlborough, New Zealand; Tintara in McLaren Vale, Australia; Inniskillin and Jackson-Triggs in Canada.

TFC, Inc. Continues Commitment to Customer Success Through Key Investment in Digital Print Infrastructure and Industry Veteran Leadership

Napa, CA, September 11, 2006 Marketing services provider TFC, Inc. today announced that the company has expanded its customer acquisition and rewards marketing services by investing in new color print-on-demand equipment, technology and mail shop equipment, and direct marketing industry leadership. The new investments triple TFC’s direct mail volume capacity to more than two million pieces per month and enable TFC to deliver turn-key marketing services.

TFC acquired the mail shop technology and equipment from Guarantee Mailing Services (GMS), a San Rafael-based direct mail company. The GMS technology and equipment brings new variable print and direct mail capabilities to TFC to help its customers achieve greater levels of response and increased customer loyalty. Combined with TFC’s proven back-end fulfillment services, the GMS data segmentation, analytics and list management capabilities provides superior services for one-to-one marketing campaigns. In addition, founding GMS CEO, Steve Hill, will be coming on board at TFC. Steve brings not only 20 years of industry expertise, but he brings relationships with twenty new clients, including Dominican University of California and Lombardi Sports of San Francisco.

” We invest in our customers’ success by providing them with the competitive advantage they require, ” said Connie Hill, Founder and CEO of TFC, Inc. ” Within the past quarter, TFC has picked up twenty new customers as a result of our infrastructure investments. We have also invested in the human capital needed to support our expansion of technology and services. ”

TFC’s new color print on demand capabilities come from a Xerox digital printing press that integrates with TFC’s on demand marketing applications for easy ordering. TFC clients can reduce time spent creating versions of marketing collateral and order processing by utilizing TFC’s web-enabled print management tools. The combined printing technology and design software enable TFC to further improve production processes and print quality, while increasing time to market for customers running one-to-one marketing programs.

“This is the first major step in our initiative to expand our services over the next twelve months,” added Hill. “We look forward to growing in a number of areas of our business.”

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