Founded in 1979 to stimulate economic growth and neighborhood stability in Brooklyn, New York, BEDC has evolved into a multi-service, business and community development organization serving thousands of clients per year. BEDC’s expanding and enhanced services are structured to meet the unique challenges facing entrepreneurs in a constantly changing, dynamic urban economic environment. In twenty-four years of service to the business community, BEDC has provided training, technical assistance and counseling to over 20,000 established or potential business owners. Kris Reed, Director of the Initiative for a Competitive Brooklyn at BEDC, says “PNT’s deep experience, expertise, and ability to understand and support our business need were critical factors in our decision to engage them on the project.”

PNT Marketing Services, Inc., founded in 1988, provides custom databases and database marketing services to a wide variety of industries, specializing in helping clients implement solutions to develop and leverage Customer Intelligence to drive business process improvements, customer service, new product and service development, and increased profitability. PNT’s Integrated Marketing Platform solutions include the PromoFill promotion and customer incentive fulfillment engine, the My Marketing Programs Online service to allow clients to manage marketing collateral and targeted direct marketing programs from an intuitive, easy-to-use web interface, and the MetroMatch merge/purge utilities for robust and highly accurate name/address matching and customer linking