Happy New Year! Kicking off 2007 with a bang is what’s going on at Retex. As this New Year begins, we are introducing the retail community to new opportunities available through innovative programs with the addition of Retex Services and EasyLink Services Corporation. As we are owned and operated by you, the Retailer, it is our duty to provide you with programs that produce bottom line savings. Retex is excited to introduce Retex Services, a customized consultant based, cost saving program to help retailers save money, improve efficiencies and increase sales. This new program, provided in partnership with World Business Services, Inc., has identified over a dozen new cost reduction programs that will help Retex Members save money.

Highlighted within this newsletter is the first of many fresh ideas for the New Year:

Claming refunds on your 2006 tax return by participating in Federal Excise Tax Audit. In 2006, the Federal Government ruled that it needed to make an automatic refund available to businesses from the 3% Federal Excise Tax collected on your phone bills from March of 2003 through July of 2006. Although this process can be daunting, this program speeds through 17 pages of IRS documentation to understand what phone bills are eligible for the refund. Learn More.

Lower Your Business Insurance Premiums in such areas as: Worker’s Compensation, General Liability, Auto, Property, Owners Liability, and even Health Insurance. Retex Services has identified an Insurance Advocate that has averaged a cost savings of 20-50% on lowering Insurance Premiums over 90% of the time. The program is specifically designed to keep any lasting relationships with your Insurance Vendor and works with them (if you choose) to lower your costs. Learn More.

Retex Services has also discovered an innovative program to cut costs on your credit card processing fees or receive free credit card processing equipment. Retex Services is ready to assist you in navigating through this service to see what best works for your retail organization. Learn More.

Another standard, yet necessary task for every retailer is printing, distribution and management of those printed items. Whether you’re looking to print Gift Cards for your organization or ways to keep track of all your materials, MTM Business Forms stands ready to provide the retail community with print, marketing, distribution and storage solutions for all types of projects. Learn More.

And rounding out the list of exciting new programs to kick off the New Year, is EasyLink’s EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Services. EasyLink is offering, exclusively to Retex Members, discounted rates that are not available anywhere else. EasyLink’s complete suite of EDI solutions will enhance every Retailer’s EDI cababilities. Learn More.

As you can see, there are many exciting new opportunities for Retailers to explore. In addition to these new programs, we also have our outstanding Conferencing and Alerts and Notification Solutions from Premiere Global Services, Parcel Auditing Solution to track your parcel packages and any refunds owed, Energy Management and Utility Bill Payments Services and many more.

See What You Could Be Saving….