Harte-Hanks Establishes Office in the Philippines to Focus on Marketing Operations; Promotes Jason Cavo to Position of Managing Director for This Operation.

SAN ANTONIO -- Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE:HHS), a worldwide, direct and targeted marketing company, announced today that it will open a marketing operations center in Manila, the Philippines, that will provide contact center, data entry, mail tracking and data management services supporting primarily North American and other English-speaking markets.

The company also announced that it has promoted Jason Cavo to the position of managing director, direct marketing, who is charged with management of the Manila operation.

Harte-Hanks has conducted business in Manila since 2002 via a partnership, and will begin to move equipment to its new facility there by year's end, with operation to commence soon thereafter. Initially, it is expected that there will be 475 customer service agents in Manila -- and a capacity of up to 700 work stations. Specifically, Harte-Hanks will provide technical and product support for client engagements, and will conduct various back-office functions for clients.

The Manila operation also will perform data collection and verification for the Harte-Hanks CI Technology Database (CITDB), a telephone-built database of information technology (IT) and enterprise market intelligence on 680,000 business sites in North America, South America and Europe. Currently, Harte-Hanks-owned facilities conduct CITDB data gathering in the United States, Brazil, Ireland and Spain, and operations will continue in these nations.

"Harte-Hanks has experience in assisting clients as they seek alternate, overseas market solutions -- working for several years with partners in China, India, the Philippines and Eastern Europe," said Gary Skidmore, senior vice president and corporate officer, Harte-Hanks. "This investment leverages the learning we've acquired, and, constitutes our first Asian facility to perform English-language work. Harte-Hanks is investing in Manila to address its clients' requirements to provide these types of services outside of the United States."

Jason Cavo, the managing director in Manila, has been a Harte-Hanks employee since 2000, serving as a senior account manager for technical markets working in the company's Austin, TX, office. He has a decade of experience in outsourcing management, and holds a bachelor of science degree in commerce from Niagara University.

"Jason's dedication and commitment in delivering high quality account work is exceptional, helping Harte-Hanks to earn vendor recognition from top technical companies," Skidmore said. "His ability to shape motivated account work, his flexibility in dynamic work environments such as contact centers, and his working knowledge of performance management will help us make this offshore venture a successful one."

Harte-Hanks, Inc., San Antonio, TX, is a worldwide, direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to a wide range of local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing improves the return on its clients' marketing investment with a range of services organized around five solution points: Construct and update the database -- Access the data -- Analyze the data -- Apply the knowledge -- Execute the programs. Expert at each element within this process, Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing is highly skilled at tailoring solutions for each of the vertical markets it serves. Harte-Hanks Shoppers is North America's largest owner, operator and distributor of shopper publications, with shoppers that are zoned into more than 1,000 separate editions with circulation of approximately 12 million in California and Florida each week.

For more information, contact: Chief Financial Officer Dean Blythe 210-829-9138 or e-mail at [e-mail].

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