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CPI Card Group® Earns Multiple Recognitions at the ICMA’s Élan Awards
Company Wins Top Honors in Three Categories for Excellence in Card Manufacturing, Personalization and Fulfillment LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CPI
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nCompany Wins Top Honors in Three Categories for Excellence in Card Manufacturing, Personalization and Fulfillment\n\n LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCPI Card Group Inc. (OTCQX: PMTS, TSX: PMTS) (“CPI” or the “Company”), a payment technology company and leading provider of credit, debit and prepaid solutions, today announced recognitions the Company received from the International Card Manufacturers Association’s (ICMA) 2020 Élan Awards of Excellence. The awards celebrate the pinnacle of design innovation, security and technical achievements in the global card industry.\n\nCPI® was named winner in the Best Personalization & Fulfillment (P&F) Product, Service or Project category for its work with Oxygen Bank in creating the Oxygen Debit Card Package. For its collaboration with Oxygen, CPI provided end-to-end support to design, produce and deliver personal and business debit cards tailored to the bank’s unique audience of independent professionals. The Company developed two packages with clean and crisply-designed vertical cards arriving nested in interactive packaging, with back-of-card personalization completing the high-end look and feel.\n\nCPI also received top honors in the Best Secure Payment Card category for the BMW Card, created in collaboration with US Bank and BMW Financial Services NA, LLC. The BMW Card was designed to evoke the same emotion, performance and premium quality that has defined the BMW brand for decades. Printed on a blue core, the card prominently features the iconic BMW Roundel in full color, while a layer of spot varnish and raised digital-metal ink punctuates the company brand on the card surface. Through CPI’s innovative print technique, the BMW Card brings a tactile, physical quality to the Roundel and an elevated look overall – eliciting the excitement, performance and sophistication that is emulative of BMW itself. Additionally, the Company was named a finalist in the same category for its work with Barclays and RCI, the world’s largest vacation exchange company, in developing the RCI Ocean EMV® Card. The card, which features an aerial beach photograph, brings the shimmering surf to life, creating an undulating, almost holographic look that appears to move in three dimensions.\n\nThis year, the Élan Awards also introduced Best Secure Metal Payments Cards as a new award category. CPI was nam...