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Metris Companies Inc.
NYSE: MXT
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 NEWS FROM THE WIRES
Asset-Backeds-Ford unit heads $5 bln supply throng
Aug 14 2001 02:06 PM PDT

Asset-Backeds-Auto, credit card sectors heat up
Aug 13 2001 01:37 PM PDT

Metris seen offering $600 mln credit card ABS
Aug 13 2001 09:29 AM PDT

Metris quarterly profits up 30 percent
Jul 18 2001 03:59 AM PDT

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 PROFILE
Catalog company Fingerhut has converted to the Metris system. Metris Companies markets its Fingerhut credit card and Direct Merchants Bank brand Visa and MasterCard to moderate-income customers throughout the US. Metris issues mostly secured and unsecured cards; it offers such add-ons as credit card registration, credit insurance programs, and extended service plans (consumer advocates disparage such fee-based services, but they are significant to Metris' income). Fingerhut spun off Metris in 1998. Thomas Lee of the investment firm Thomas H. Lee Company owns almost one-third of the company.

 COMPETITION
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 DEALS
Deal: Marketing Pact Formed Between Metris and Talk.com
Date Announced: 11.09.99
Value of transaction (US $Mil): 0
Description: Online telecom-services provider and direct marketer and credit card issuer ink marketing pact.

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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
2000 Sales (mil.): 1,438.60
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 67.3%
Employees: 4,200
Revenue per employee: $342,523.81

 KEY PEOPLE
• Ronald N. Zebeck
    CEO
• Benson K. Woo
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
10900 Wayzata Blvd.
Minnetonka, MN 55305
US
Phone: 952-525-5020
Fax: 952-595-0510
Online: Web Site

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