An industry leader in content development and standardization, Trade Service plans to bring many new and innovative elements to O/PUS customers and to the office products industry at large. The acquisition also bodes well for O/PUS dealers who heretofore had relied exclusively on ECI2 as their sole source for business software and content. “The O/PUS business is a natural fit for Trade Service,” states Tod Moore, Vice President Sales & Marketing. “With our 75-year history of providing similar services to other vertical markets, we are well-positioned to offer O/PUS dealers additional value that has previously been unavailable to them.”

Trade Service is communicating extensively to O/PUS dealers over the next few weeks to welcome them as new Trade Service customers and involve them in the company’s plans to meet and exceed their content updating needs well into the future.

About Trade Service
Trade Service Corporation is the leading provider of standardized product and price information to the electrical, plumbing/PVF, HVACR, industrial MRO, and office products industries. Since 1931, the company has been the leader in content acquisition, aggregation, management, publishing, and distribution, offering a variety of products, services, and systems to meet the content needs of over 20,000 distributors, contractors, government agencies and “buy side” Fortune 1000 subscribers. The range of solutions provided includes printed directories, electronic catalogs, pricing data for business system updating, and robust attributed content to fuel full-functioning Internet storefronts. For more information, visit www.tradeservice.com.