Specialty Coffee Retailer Tully's Signs with National Processing Company for Processing Services
Tuesday November 12, 8:55 am ET
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- National Processing Company (NPC®), a leading provider of merchant credit card processing and a wholly owned subsidiary of National Processing, Inc. (NYSE: NAP), announced the signing of a multi-year credit card processing agreement with Seattle based Tully's Coffee Corporation. Under the terms of the agreement, NPC will provide authorization and settlement services for all MasterCard® and VISA® transactions accepted at Tully's store locations. In addition, the new Tully's Coffee Card(TM) (a stored value gift and convenience card) is being processed through the same POS terminals as credit cards.
Creating a coffee experience that customers savor and enjoy has made Tully's a prominent name in specialty coffee. Serving both retail and wholesale accounts, Tully's Coffee(TM) can be found in its stores and in restaurants, offices, and grocery stores in the Western U.S. and through licensed stores in Japan. Coffee is Tully's passion and employees are dedicated to making it the highlight of each customer's day.
"We are delighted to be processing for Tully's," said Tim Munto, senior vice president and general manager of National Sales for NPC. "NPC processes for many specialty retailers and strives to design a processing solution that best fits their processing requirements. Retailers processing with NPC benefit from our economies of scale and skill, and profit from the experience of dedicated tenured employees."
"We needed a processor that could support us today, as well as in the future," said Tony Gioia, president and CEO of Tully's Coffee Corporation. "NPC fit the mold, offering merchant processing solutions that satisfy our market strategy today with flexibility to support innovative developments in the future." |
