Recognition

Recognition by industry colleagues is the highest form of honor a company can receive. We are proud that our fellow direct marketers and IT practitioners have chosen to recognize us for quality work.

KBM Group Ranked as a Leader in Marketing Service Provider (MSP) Industry Report

KBM Group has been ranked a leader with the highest score in strategy out of a field of the eight companies evaluated by Forrester Research, Inc. who met the final criteria in the January 2011 report, The Forrester Wave™: US Database Marketing Service Providers, Q1 2011. KBM Group was also evaluated as having the highest score in the category of global strategy.

2008 DMEF Corporate Commitment Award

The Direct Marketing Educational Foundation honored KBM Group with its 2008 Corporate Commitment Award. This award recognizes companies that regularly demonstrate a commitment to excellence in all areas of direct marketing education among new and upcoming talent, and that proactively foster and promote excellence — for today and tomorrow. From CEO Gary Laben’s role as chairman of DMEF to our ongoing employee education programs, KBM Group creates an atmosphere that encourages and supports career growth within the direct marketing industry. Learn More>

2008 NCDM Database Excellence Award

The NCDM Database Excellence Award honors organizations that have demonstrated ingenuity and creativity in leveraging their marketing databases. The 2008 Gold award for the Business to Business category went to KBM Group (via our subsidiary DATACORE Marketing) and our client Michelin. The award recognized KBM Group for its development of a database solution, which helped Michelin build direct relationships with its dealers by giving dealers visibility to the value of doing business with Michelin.

Forrester Report on the Value of Database Marketing Service Providers

In 2003, 2006 and again in 2007, Forrester selected KBM Group as one of the ten leading vendors in its evaluation of Database Marketing Service Providers, highlighting our healthcare expertise; integrated, strategic and analytic service; and our full service midmarket offering. The 2007 evaluation cites us for maintaining a “dominant position in the healthcare industry” and notes that clients laud our “account management as highly responsive and well-managed.”

CIO Top 100 Award – 2006

IDG’s CIO magazine has recognized KBM Group with the 2006 CIO 100 award.  Every year the CIO 100 Awards honor companies around the world that use information technology in innovative and strategic ways. CIO magazine recognized us for designing a grid-based, open system service-oriented architecture (SOA) to process core applications that improves processing time and decreases cost per transaction. Learn More>