Buyer's Guide: Industry Consultancies

Arellton Group, LLC
P.O. Box 284
Ridgefield, CT 06877
P: 203-438-0810
F: 203-431-3719
E: rgwhitton@arellton.com
www.arellton.com

Arellton Group is a consulting company specializing in publishing and direct marketing operations. Services include situation assessment and integration; organization, workflow or process improvement; technologies; benchmarking and due diligence review; RFQ development, sourcing, bid analysis, and contract development; and in-depth analysis and market research.

J.S. Eliezer Associates, Inc.
300 Atlantic St., 7th Floor
Stamford, CT 06901
P: 203-658-1300
F: 203-658-1301
www.jseliezer.com

J.S. Eliezer, founded in 1964, is the preeminent production consultant in the magazine, direct mail, and catalog industry. Experienced consultants confidentially review and analyze every element in the process of creating and delivering a printed end product, considering every factor in the equation from prepress to digital files, from printing press to the final destination in the hands of the consumer.

Metafore, Inc.
1306 NW Hoyt St., Suite 403
Portland, OR 97209
P: 503-224-2205
F: 503-224-2216
E: info@metafore.org
www.metafore.org

Metafore creates tools and provides information and advisory services that enable businesses to incorporate environmental performance criteria into their capital investment and purchasing decisions. Metafore developed the Environmental Paper Assessment Tool (EPAT) to help paper buyers and sellers evaluate and select environmentally preferable paper. Data-driven and web-based, EPAT (www.epat.org) allows suppliers to report environmental data to their customers and prospects on a standardized, user-friendly platform.
Metafore also manages the Forest Certification Resource Center (www.certifiedwood.org) to bring greater awareness, commitment, and transparency to forest certification so that certification is environmentally and economically viable and aggressively supported across the supply chain.

WPC (Wagner Print Consult International)
Apartado 1100-1200 Pavas
San Jose de Costa Rica RCR -1200
P: 011-506-231-6754
F: 011-506-231-6754
E: info@wagnerprintconsult.org
www.wagnerprintconsult.org

Wagner Print Consult offers coaching in standardized commercial and packaging gravure printing under ISO 12647-4. Additional capabilities include gravure press fingerprinting, digital prepress professional training, ISO 9000 and Six Sigma training, ISO 14000 professional training and consulting, cost control systems, and management information systems.