Alliance Data Signs Long-Term Renewal Agreement With Ann Inc.

Alliance Data to Continue to Provide Private Label and Co-Branded Credit Card and Marketing Services for Leading Women’s Specialty Retail Fashion Brands Ann Taylor and LOFT

Alliance Data Systems Corporation, a leading global provider of data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions, recently announced its Retail Services business, which manages more than 130 private label and co-branded credit programs, has signed a long-term renewal agreement to continue providing private label and co-branded credit card services for  ANN INC. brands Ann Taylor and LOFT. ANN INC. is one of the leading specialty retailers for fashionable women’s apparel, shoes and accessories. Ann Taylor and LOFT brands are marketed in approximately 1,025 stores across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico through its Ann Taylor, LOFT, Ann Taylor Factory and LOFT Outlet stores, and are also available in more than 100 countries worldwide online at www.anntaylor.com and www.loft.com. 

Alliance Data will continue to deliver marketing-driven private label and co-branded credit card programs that recognize and reward Ann Taylor and LOFT cardmembers.

About Alliance Data Retail Services
Alliance Data Retail Services is one of the nation’s leading providers of branded credit card programs, with more than 130 marketing-driven private label, co-brand and commercial programs in partnership with many of North America’s best-known brands. The business delivers upon its Know more. Sell more. commitment by leveraging customer insight to drive sales for its client partners. Leveraging deep-rooted marketing expertise, transaction-based customer data, and advanced analytics, Alliance Data Retail Services creates turnkey, multichannel credit programs designed to help its clients develop stronger, more profitable customer relationships. Alliance Data Retail Services is part of the Alliance Data family of companies. For more information, visit www.alliancedataretail.com.

About Alliance Data
Alliance Data and its combined businesses is a leading global provider of data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions serving large, consumer-based industries. The Company creates and deploys customized solutions, enhancing the critical customer marketing experience; the result is measurably changing consumer behavior while driving business growth and profitability for some of today’s most recognizable brands. Alliance Data helps its clients create and increase customer loyalty through solutions that engage millions of customers each day across multiple touch points using traditional, digital, mobile and emerging technologies. An S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, Alliance Data and its three businesses employ approximately 12,000 associates at more than 80 locations worldwide. Alliance Data was named to FORTUNE magazine’s 2014 list of World’s Most Admired Companies.

Alliance Data consists of three businesses: Alliance Data Retail Services, a leading provider of marketing-driven credit solutions; Epsilon, a leading provider of multichannel, data-driven technologies and marketing services; and LoyaltyOne, which owns and operates the AIR MILES Reward Program, Canada’s premier coalition loyalty program. For more information, visit www.alliancedata.com.