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SalesForce Australia, one of Australia's largest Call Centre businesses at the time, for $ 64 million on 6 December 2004, the NSW printing service on 7 March 2005, VeCommerce on 27 July 2006 for $ 28.7 million, Dialect Interactive on 5 December 2006 for $ 6 million. The New Zealand targeted media operations Deltarg was sold to
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for $ 1 million as the two organisation established a joint venture call Reach Media. Salmat acquired its largest rival SPA from Kodak Australia for $ 318 million on 18 July 2007. The HPA acquisition was accompanied by a capital raising that diluted the founders' stake in Salmat from 60% to
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In 2000, the company's revenues reached over $ 200 million, in 2004 it passed $ 400 million and passed $ 800 million in 2008. Driving Salmat's growth was its public listing on the ASX on 2 December 2002. Following the public listing, the company made a series of acquisitions, including
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At a general meeting of the members of the Company held on 28 August 2020, it was resolved that the Company be wound up and liquidators be appointed. The remaining assets of $ 133 million were divided up among the 199,000,000 shares in the company for 66.5 cents per share.
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Salmat has been criticized for abusing a loophole to allow them to pay their workers well under minimum wage by not considering them employees and instead independent contractors. One worker reported earning under one tenth minimum wage for 100 hours of work.
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Both Salter and Mattick retired from day-to-day activities in 2009. Salmat sold its business process outsourcing operation to Fuji Xerox in 2012 for $ 375 million and changed strategic direction from a multichannel to an omni-channel communication company.
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in the International ICT Awards Philippines 2014. The previous year, Salmat's digital catalogue and shopping website, Lasso, won the Best Aggregation Channel at the Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIA) 2013.
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In November 2019, IVE Group acquired Salmat Marketing Solutions and Reach Media NZ Limited, Salmat’s catalogue distribution businesses in Australia and New Zealand, for $ 25 million.
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Salmat was founded in 1979 in Sydney, Australia by Phil Salter and Peter Mattick as a catalogue distribution company. In 1984, the company received a capital injection from
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Salmat has also been criticized for requiring its workers to send large sums of unnecessary location and other data to the company in a way that invaded workers' privacy.
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In December 2019, Salmat sold its MicroSourcing (Managed Services) business to Probe BPO Holdings for $ 100 million.
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Mattick returned as non-executive chairman in 2013. In early 2014, Craig Dower was appointed the company's CEO.
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The company, its entities and staff have won a number of industry awards over the years.
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scores to high school students 5 days before the scheduled release on 12 December.
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In September 2014, the company was awarded the contract to operate the "
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On 7 December 2016, the company inadvertently sent out over 2,000
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organisation Probe Group acquired Contact Centre from Salmat.
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company with headquarters in Sydney. Its clients include
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Publicly listed company
Traded as
ASX
SLM
Internet marketing
Multichannel marketing
Divisions
multichannel marketing
Woolworths Limited
Target Australia
Telstra
Government of Australia
News Limited
Fairfax
New Zealand Post
Do Not Call Register
Australian Communications and Media Authority
VCE
customer experience

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