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Alpha Card Services’ CEO inducted into Philadelphia hall of fame

Tuesday, December 06, 2011 — 13:01:24 (EST)

Philadelphia, Dec. 6, 2011 -- Alpha Card Services’ CEO, Lazaros Kalemis was recently honored as being one of five local Philadelphia area CEO’s inducted into the Philadelphia 100: 2011 CEO Hall of Fame. Additionally, Alpha Card Services as a company was inducted into the Philadelphia 100: 2011 Company Hall of Fame.

Both these honors were bestowed to the company due to the 5 consecutive years of Alpha Card Services being awarded the esteemed Philadelphia 100 ranking. The Philadelphia 100 award was created to honor and identify the fastest growing companies in the Philadelphia region.

“The Philadelphia 100 Hall of Fame award is a great honor, not only for me personally, but to the efforts of our employees and ISO team partners; all of whom are emboldened to follow our corporate mantra ‘Committed to Excellence’ ” says Lazaros Kalemis, CEO of Alpha Card Services. “We expect to meet the high standards of the Philadelphia 100 Hall of Fame program for years to come.”

Alpha Card Services, an Inc. 500 I 5000 company from 2007 through 2011, has grown tremendously since its inception in 2000 and remains focused on adapting their award-winning services to meet the ever-changing business climate. Alpha Card Services, a Registered MasterCard® TPP and ISO/MSP of Wells Fargo Bank - Walnut Creek, CA and HSBC Bank, NA Buffalo, NY., was founded in 2000 as an agent and merchant friendly ISO. Within ten years the company has expanded their operations in both Pennsylvania and California, maintained zero hold times for over 4 years, and increased its product portfolio to credit and debit card processing, gift and loyalty cards, POS systems, merchant cash advances, ATM services, check guarantee services and will be introducing many additional new products and programs throughout 2011.

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Source: Company press release.