Lombardi Media Corporation

Type	Holding company
Industry	Publishing, Digital Media, Customer Contact Services, Consumer Goods, Direct Marketing and Product Fulfillment
Founded	1986
Founder	Michael Lombardi
Headquarters	Ontario, Canada
Website	http://www.lombardimedia.com/

Lombardi Media Corporation is a holding company that owns a group of businesses concentrated in publishing, digital media, customer contact services, consumer goods, direct marketing and product fulfillment.^[1]

History

Lombard Media Corporation, founded in 1986 by Canadian entrepreneur Michael Lombardi, MBA, became a public company in 1993 via a reverse-takeover of Golden Point Exploration Inc.^[2] In 2007, Michael Lombardi, who was then the major shareholder of Lombardi Media Corporation with approximately 89% of the outstanding stock, purchased the remaining shares^[3] in a going-private transaction.^[4]

A subsidiary of Lombardi Media Corporation, Lombardi Publishing Corporation, experienced rapid growth in the 2000s^[5] and was ranked several times as one of Canada's 100 fastest growing companies by Profit Magazine.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]} Today, Lombardi Publishing Corporation publishes financial e-letters, periodicals, newsletters, books and reports.

In the late 1990s, Lombardi Media Corporation started acquiring companies that supplied the Canadian direct marketing industry.^[12] Lombardi Media Corporation purchased Avon Sale Tech Inc. and Templeman Direct Marketing Limited, two major suppliers to the Canadian direct marketing industry.^[13][14][15] The companies where merged into Clixx Direct Marketing Services Inc. which were eventually sold in 2010 to NYSE listed Cenveo Inc.^[16][17] In 2007, Lombardi Media Corporation made its first acquisition in the U.S. direct marketing industry.^[18]

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