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panies involved with advertising a brand,”
Meredith said. “It’s actually everything from
consumer product companies to marketing
services companies to advertising agencies,
along with logistics and program manage-
ment companies.”
One of the May Group’s largest clients
is North American Corp.’s supply chain-
centric division, NVISION, which manages
procurement, logistics and distribution for
companies including Sam’s Club, Simmons
and many others. MGI does the engineer-
ing drawings and production of the neces-
sary display pieces for those brands and bulk
ships them to the NVISION warehouse for
distribution.
Nearly all the signs that are in a Sam’s
Club, for example, were produced by May
Group in Fort Worth, and between 65 and
70 percent of MGI’s clients are, as is the case
with NVISION, once-removed from the
end-user. The remaining 30 to 35 percent
of the transactions are made directly to the
brand.
MGI also has contracts with several cus-
tomers who take advantage of the entire
spectrum of services, while others use the
company for specific areas where their needs
are greatest.
Advertising agencies for example, Mer-
