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Retail and Tech Leaders Join GSP's Board of Directors

Clearwater, Fla., December 20, 2018 – GSP, a leading retail services provider, announced today the appointment of Alan Aldworth and Mike Tower to its Board of Directors. As board members, Mike and Alan will support the ongoing development and implementation of GSP’s strategy to “make retail better.”

Alan Aldworth currently serves as Board Director and CEO at TIEC, Inc. TIEC provides quality management systems consulting and training services for the global oil and gas industry. He has held CEO and board chairman roles for tech companies such as ProQuest Company and SKO Learning, Inc. Additionally, he helped lead the strategic shift of Tribune Company, one of the largest traditional media companies in the U.S. to a tech-enabled services provider. Alan’s extensive executive and acquisition experience coupled with his strong background in effective governance, make him an ideal fit for GSP’s Board of Directors.

Mike Tower is a Partner Emeritus with A.T. Kearney, Inc. a global management consulting firm, where he focuses on strategy in the retail, consumer products and services industries. Previously, he served as A.T. Kearney’s Managing Partner for North America and as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Executive Committee member at Sears, Roebuck and Co., as well as President of Sears Home Improvement Services division. Mike is a member of the Board of Directors of Ace Hardware International, and a previous member on the boards of Home Acres Building Supply and True Partners Consulting. As a board member and a consultant, he has worked with some of the most iconic companies in the world in the mass merchandise, specialty retail, and pharmacy retail spaces.

Existing board members, Matthew Patinkin and Michael Winser, will leave their positions on GSP’s board at the end of this year.

“We welcome Alan and Mike to the board and look forward to the value their extensive leadership experience will bring to our customers and our employees,” said Paul Neuhoff, Chairman of GSP’s Board of Directors. “Additionally, we are truly grateful for the service both Matthew Patinkin and Michael Winser have provided us throughout the years and are thankful for their contributions as members of GSP’s Board of Directors.”

ABOUT GSP

Now celebrating 40 years of business, GSP is a retail services provider located in Clearwater, Florida, with three regional production facilities (Clearwater; Provo, Utah; and Madison, Wisconsin). By using surveys and a proprietary software system, GSP helps retailers accurately measure and store site data, guaranteeing the right size sign is delivered to the right store every time with no overage. GSP offers award-winning marketing, design services, visual merchandising, food photography, best-in-class graphics and smart POP program management to more than 60,000 retail locations throughout North America. Recent growth led GSP to add AccuStore®, a survey, app and site profiling software brand, and the large-format graphics lab Great Big Pictures, which specializes in fashion retail. For more information, visit www.gspretail.com.

Email: marketing@gspretail.com, Voice: 727-532-0647

Our Brand Story

GSP started as a printing company in1978. We found our niche supplying in-store signage for convenience stores when retailers guessed quantities they needed. This led to overage, waste and expense. To solve this, we developed software to guarantee on-time delivery of “the right size sign, to the right store, every time.”

In 2014, we started AccuStore with a dedicated team. As software helped drive our growth, we realized that new printing and fulfillment sites near customers could drive business and improve sustainability. We acquired companies that fit GSP’s technical excellence and superior customer service models.

First was Great Big Pictures in Madison, WI in 2015. They lead the field in large format printing and visual merchandising for iconic fashion retailers. Their standards for customer service include award-winning sustainability programs, and expertise to bolster retail environments services.

In 2020, GSP acquired Custom Color in Lenexa, KS. The company supplies printed graphics to leading retailers. Custom Color’s stellar quality in fabric printing also aligns with GSP’s values.

GSP provides branding and marketing services with a focus on site-specific execution to help transform our customers’ growth strategies into store-level success. We design retail environments to engage shoppers and provide superior customer experiences. AccuStore powers our retail marketing, execution and digital display technologies and ensures stores get only what they need. GSP is a forward-thinking company that’s here to serve retailers now, with a focus on their future.

GSP delivers graphics and digital marketing to over 75,000 retail locations. Our experts provide retail branding and marketing services, focused on site-specific execution. Our methods ensure stores get only the POP they need, at the lowest cost. Our Retail Environments team creates and deploys amazing, in-store shopping experiences.