QualPro Announces 18th Annual Leadership Symposium

Atlanta, GA – October 4, 2007 – QualPro, Inc. a performance improvement and consulting firm will host its annual Leadership Symposium on October 10-12 at the JW Marriott Buckhead in Atlanta, GA. This three day “gathering of the minds” will assemble top level executives from well known companies such as Bridgestone/Firestone, Visa, Allstate, LifeMasters Healthcare, LifeTouch National School Studios and more. Top executives from each company will be discussing the positive effects that performance improvement strategy MVT® or Multivariable Testing, has on creating breakthrough results for their businesses.

Since its inception, MVT® has been helping Fortune 500 companies like DuPont, AT&T, and Lowes enhance efficiency and improve their profit margins. Over the past 25 years, the company has worked with more than 1,000 corporate clients in the retail, sales, marketing, manufacturing, human resources, customer service and healthcare sectors. QualPro’s MVT® methodology and unique implementation approach identifies actions that a company can take to dramatically increase sales, reduce cost, and improve quality in only a few weeks or months. Unlike slower methods like Six Sigma, which produce slow incremental improvement and are often a drain on company resources, MVT tests combinations of improvement factors and rapidly determines their impact on sales, productivity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. It is the only process improvement approach that is mathematically proven to deliver rapid breakthrough results.

“Our Annual Leadership Symposium allows top level executives from various sectors of the business community to come together and share their experiences with MVT®,” said Dr. Charles Holland, CEO of QualPro and a founder of the MVT method. “In today’s fast-paced world where businesses operate within the complex dynamics of a mobile marketplace, and compete not just with companies across the street, but with those around the globe, it is important to recognize that growth depends on change. MVT produces the kind of rapid, positive changes that are directly related to a company’s survival and success.”

Speakers at the Leadership Symposium include top-level executives at several major companies who will discuss the use of MVT® as a tool to promote efficiency and improved profitability:

Bill Perdew, COO of Bridgestone Firestone
With more than 2,200 consumer and commercial stores and approximately 22,000 teammates in North America, BFRC operates the largest number of company-owned full-line automotive retail generalist stores in the world. Bill Perdew, Chief Operating Officer of BFRC, is responsible for all North American retail operations. Perdew will describe how BFRC is using MVT® to develop innovations that better serve customers, increase revenues, and decrease costs. By simultaneously testing 30 store and advertising strategies and tactics, BFRC is rapidly identifying actions that can provide tens of millions of dollars in financial benefits and better satisfied customers.

Keith Van Scotter, President of Lincoln Paper and Tissue
Located in Lincoln, Maine, Lincoln Paper and Tissue provides value-added paper and tissue products to specialty products producers as well as printers and publishers. A recognized innovator in recycling technologies, it provides products that are engineered to both meet the needs of customers and maximize environmental stewardship. During his presentation, Lincoln Paper president, Keith Van Scotter, will share the role that several MVT® tests have played in cutting production costs and solving the most pressing quality issue. He will also discuss how MVT® was used to determine ways to reduce costs and chemical consumption.

Ian Worden, Vice President, Information Technology and Project
Management Office
LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, one of the nation’s leading disease management companies, provides programs and services that create health partnerships among individuals, their physicians and payors. The company is uniquely focused on delivering disease management solutions that improve health outcomes while significantly reducing costs.
Ian Worden, Vice President of LifeMasters, is responsible for information technology and the enterprise project management office, which includes efforts to improve LifeMasters’ business processes. Worden’s speech will share how LifeMasters is using MVT® experimentation in direct mail and telephone communications, as well as the face-to-face interactions by nurses, to make breakthrough improvements in the effectiveness of its enrollment and engagement efforts.

These speakers will be joined by other executives including representatives from Olin, Allstate Insurance and Visa and many others.

About QualPro
QualPro Inc. is in its third decade of helping businesses improve their results through its unique process improvement technology. After working with more than a thousand organizations around the world, QualPro has helped clients in every industry to better satisfy their customers, improve their bottom lines, and strengthen their competitive positions. QualPro's success can be attributed to its MVT® methodology and unique implementation approach, which identifies actions that a company can take to dramatically increase sales, reduce cost, and improve quality in only a few weeks or months. For more information please visit www.qualproinc.com or call 1-800-500-1722.


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