Budco Earns Ford Q1 Award

DETROIT, March 12 -- Budco, the Highland Park based marketing and distribution company, received Ford Motor Company's prestigious Q1 Award at an in-house ceremony earlier this month. Q1 is a designation given by Ford Motor Company to suppliers that consistently exhibit a high level of quality in the products and services they provide.

Budco provides a variety of marketing and distribution services to Ford Motor Company across many areas of the corporation. As a strategic, results- focused outsourcing provider, Budco supports Ford using its many competencies including creative services, contact center, database management, variable digital printing, web-based services, and warehousing and distribution.

Last year, Budco provided key services to Ford Motor Company in support of its "The Road Is Ours" 100th Anniversary Celebration. This included the official registration web site, handling enrollment requests through its contact center, processing ticket sales, and fulfilling customized registration packets. Budco's Creative department designed and produced a number of the communication materials in support of the event as well.

  Ford Motor Company has been a customer of 22-year-old Budco since 1982.

  About Budco

Budco helps organizations solve business communication problems and build dialogue with their customers by developing and executing results-focused marketing and distribution initiatives. The company uses a variety of traditional and digital marketing competencies in innovative ways to do this. Founded in 1982, the company's vision is to be recognized as the leader in providing dialogue business solutions, measured by customer loyalty, attracting and retaining outstanding employees, community involvement and financial growth. In addition to Ford Motor Company, Budco clients include Allied Domecq, DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, HoneyBaked Ham, McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals (a division of Johnson & Johnson), SBC, TAP Pharmaceutical, UPS, VW/Audi, and Walt Disney Co. The company is headquartered in Highland Park, MI, just outside of Detroit. In 2003, Budco established Pareto Dialogue, Inc., Mississauga, ON, outside of Toronto, together with a local partner, to provide warehousing and distribution services to the Canadian marketplace while providing the company with a strategic location from which to serve its global customers. Additional information about Budco is available at www.budco.com .