Rand McNally
Company: Rand McNally
Company Description: Rand McNally is the most trusted source for maps, directions, and travel content. Rand McNally's products and services include: Interactive travel service, Tripology; America’s #1 Road Atlas; IntelliRoute® truck routing software and GPS devices; and the leading geography- based educational resources for the classroom. www.RandMcNally.com
Nomination Category: Sales Awards Department Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Sales Department of the Year - Media & Entertainment
Nomination Title: Rand McNally Sales Department
Tell the story about what this nominated department achieved since the beginning of July last year (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:
Rand McNally (Rand) is an e-retailer principally engaged in selling maps. The
company also operates the brick-and-mortar model of retailing. The products
offered by the company include road atlases, luggage, travel accessories, auto
travel, globes, GPS units, international maps, fun & games, software & videos
and US state maps. Rand offers services which include providing wireless
solutions which include Rand McNally Navigator, Rand McNally Street Finder
Wireless and Rand McNally Traffic It also provides education through online and
catalog, comprehensive trucking software and other web services. The company
also operates in Canada through its subsidiary Rand McNally Canada, Inc. Rand is
headquartered at Illinois, United States.
As part of its goal to provide the most innovative routing and navigation
products for professional drivers, Rand McNally launched the IntelliRoute(R)
TND(TM) 700, a new truck GPS device with a 7-inch state-of-the-art
high-definition screen, and enhanced software features.
This new device provides greater mapping detail at each zoom level, a larger
viewing screen, additional Trucker Business Tools, enhanced features and 363,000
data updates.
The IntelliRoute(R) TND(TM) 700, like the CES award winning IntelliRoute(R)
TND(TM) 500 unit launched last year, was developed from the ground up for
professional truck drivers.
Rand McNally acquired Tripology which is the first in a series of web-based
travel services being launched on www.randmcnally.com.
Tripology matches on-line consumers with travel specialists, better known as
Tripologists, who are destination experts in planning and booking trips,
including: weddings, honeymoons, anniversaries, family reunions, and corporate
retreats worldwide.
mimio and Rand McNally, award-winning education providers, have formed an
alliance that aims to use interactive teaching technology to broaden the growth
and scope of geography education.
Through this arrangement, Rand McNally will bundle mimio Interactive Systems and
accessories with the company's online subscription service, Rand McNally Classroom.
Lat49 ad serving technology, the premier geo-contextual ad network, is now
integrated into Rand McNally maps. This agreement builds upon Lat49's strategic
partnership with the Travel Ad Network (TAN) and will offer national and local
advertisers a unique opportunity to advertise on one of the mapping world's most
iconic brands.
Lat49 technology delivers ads that are geographically and contextually
targeted, presenting our map users with ads that are relevant and complimentary
to their mapping experience.
Rand McNally, a trusted source of information for travel in the U.S. for more
than 150 years, has re-launched its consumer travel website at RandMcNally.com,
providing fresh new travel and destination content, video travel guides, and
travel services all in one location.
Rand McNally, with more than 70 years in the commercial transportation industry,
and DriverTech, with deep roots in military-grade, in-vehicle mobile computing
technology, announced an agreement in which the companies will offer a complete
fleet management solution to the long-haul trucking market.
The mobile management solution, called Rand McNally TruckPC, powered by
DriverTech, utilizes Rand McNally's leading IntelliRoute(R) TND(TM) truck
navigation on DriverTech's secure, industry-tested, on-board computing platform.
As part of the agreement, Rand McNally has taken an ownership stake in DriverTech.
List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:
http://trucking.randmcnally.com/ctonline/about_us/
Journal of Transportation via VerticalNews.com
http://www.verticalnews.com/article.php?articleID=3479510]
2009 DEC 1 - (VerticalNews.com) This article was prepared by Science Letter
editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2009, Science Letter via NewsRx.com.
http://www.verticalnews.com/article.php?articleID=3447187
http://trucking.randmcnally.com/ctonline/about_us/news/index.jsp
http://trucking.randmcnally.com/ctonline/products/fleet_management/truckpc_overview.jsp
Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader(s) of the nominated sales organization:
Dave Muscatel, President & CEO
Dennis FitzPatrick, VP, Sales