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Acxiom / May & Speh Inc company history timeline

1969

1969: Company is incorporated in Arkansas as Demographics, Inc.

1975

1975: Demographics begins processing for the direct mail industry.

1983

Its necessary dependence on an ever-changing computer technology simply drove the company's continuing need to reassess its opportunities and redesign itself. For example, in 1983 the company spent about $1 million exploring the possibilities of electronic mail, money that was finally written off as wasted.

1986

1986-91: Acquisitions and Changing Strategies in Economic Turndown

First, however, it had to weather some problems, including the poor performance of its BSA, Inc., the full-service catalog company in Ocean that it had purchased in 1986.

1991

Excluding the special charges associated with the May & Speh acquisition, Acxiom established a pattern of delivering record revenues and earnings every quarter beginning in June 1991.

1995

1995: Acxiom begins strategic alliance with The Polk Company for providing data center management.

1996

In 1996, Acxiom made two significant purchases, both of which became effective in April of that year.

1996: Company enters agreement with Oracle Corporation adopting Oracle's OLAP to its data warehousing and decision-making methods.

1997

Among other purchases made in 1997, the company bought Buckley Dement, L.P., a marketer of direct mail services for the health care and pharmaceutical industries.

1999

In 1999, the company also had special charges associated with the May & Speh acquisition, which resulted in a fairly large net loss and, in August, a fairly sharp drop in its stock price that prompted a law suit on behalf of its shareholders.

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Founded
1947
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