direct marketing founded 1968 ; 48 years ago 1968 headquarters clearwater florida u.s. area served united states canada products coupons parent cox target media inc. website www.valpak.com valpak direct marketing systems inc. commonly known as valpak is a north american direct marketing company owned and operated by cox target media inc. valpak provides print mobile and online advertising solutions 1 and coupons . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 coupon envelopes 2.2 coupon mobile apps 2.3 coupon websites 3 competitors 4 references 5 external links history edit terry loebel an unemployed autoworker founded valpak in 1968 using a 500 loan to start mailing coupons from his home to households in clearwater florida . in 1972 valpak established its first distribution center in orlando florida and by 1982 expanded business into canada . a group of investors purchased valpak from terry loebel in 1985 . 2 in september 1991 cox target media inc. purchased valpak and by 1997 valpak was mailing out 11 billion coupons a year . 3 today valpak operates nearly 170 franchise offices in the united states and canada mailing to nearly 40 million households each month . annually valpak distributes some 20 billion coupons in more than 500 million envelopes 4 and millions more through its mobile app and websites . products edit coupon envelopes edit valpak prints packages and ships its coupon envelopes from the valpak manufacturing center vmc a 200 million 500 000 square foot print production facility in st. petersburg florida . 5 print inserts in the envelope advertise businesses with coupons for dining health and beauty entertainment automotive home services and more . in each of its mailing cycles valpak sells the outside of the envelope to select local and national advertisers who use on envelope advertising for promotions marketing campaigns and sweepstakes . previous advertisers include food network hgtv cbs and martha stewart living omnimedia . coupon mobile apps edit valpak launched its mobile coupon app for ipad and iphone devices in october 2009 . soon after valpak launched android and blackberry versions of the mobile app . 6 valpak integrates its mobile coupons into digital wallet apps apple passbook 7 google wallet 8 windows phone wallet 9 and samsung wallet . 10 the valpak mobile app is free to download 11 and also features augmented reality ar technology . 12 coupon websites edit since 1994 valpak.com has been a source for printable coupons promo codes and coupon codes . today the coupon company also has a canadian website valpak.ca . competitors edit competitors & similar businesses include coupons.com coupon cabin retailmenot and localsaver.com . references edit valpak franchise information . international franchise association . retrieved 11 november 2013 . harrington jeff 31 july 2012 . valpak pioneer terry loebel dies at 71 . tampa bay times . retrieved 3 november 2013 . glover charles e. 1998 . journey through our years the story of cox enterprises inc. atlanta georgia usa longstreet . pp. 197 199 . isbn 1 56352 570 4 . valpak direct marketing systems inc. company information . hoover s. retrieved 22 november 2013 . chmura chris . valpak ventures from direct mail to digital coupons . fox 13 . retrieved 22 november 2013 . dilworth dianna . valpak opens up mobile local couponing with iphone application . direct marketing news . retrieved 22 november 2013 . johnson lauren . valpak sees 20 000 coupons added since passbook integration . mobile commerce daily . retrieved 2 november 2013 . perez sarah . google wallet takes on apple s passbook with support for loyalty cards coupons offers & more . techcrunch . retrieved 17 november 2013 . edmonds rich . valpak for windows phone brings coupons to the wallet . windows phone central . retrieved 2 november 2013 . tofel kevin c. samsung continues to usurp android adds 14 new samsung wallet partners . gigaom . retrieved 22 november 2013 . mccluskey molly . couponing for the modern age apps that help you save . daily finance . retrieved 6 january 2014 . jackson christopher . valpak app offers augmented reality coupons to shoppers . augmented reality trends . retrieved 1 november 2013 . external links edit official website usa official website canada v t e cox enterprises daily newspapers the atlanta journal constitution austin american statesman dayton daily news journal news the palm beach daily news the palm beach post the springfield news sun weekly newspapers active dayton today s pulse cox radio kcyy kglk khpt kiss fm kjsr kkbq kkyx kono kono fm krav fm krmg krmg fm ksmg ktht ktkx kwen walr fm wape fm wbab wbli wcfb wdbo wdbo fm wduv wedr wezi wfez wflc wgau wgmg whfm whio whio fm whko whpt whqt wjgl wmmo wngc wokv wokv fm wpoi wpup wpyo wrfc wsb wsb fm wsbb fm wsrv wsun wwka wwrm wxgl wxkt wxxj wzlr cox television abc affiliates wftv wsb tv wsoc tv cbs affiliates kiro tv whio tv wjax tv 1 fox affiliates koki tv wfox tv wfxt whbq tv independent stations waxn tv wrdq mynetworktv affiliates kmyt tv wfox dt2 2 nbc affiliate wpxi cable channels 4sd cox sports television the cox channel cox target media savings.com valpak cox automotive alliance inspection management autost autotrader.com 98 % kelley blue book bitauto central dispatch dealer auction.com dealer.com dealertrack deal shield home net automotive incadea jingzhengu mahindra s first choice manheim auctions motors.co.uk nextgear capital ready logistics rms automotive vauto vinsolutions xtime other assets cox communications kudzu.com 1 cox media group operates this station under an lma with bayshore television llc . 2 this subchannel holds a secondary affiliation with me tv . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title valpak & oldid 730586242 categories marketing companies of the united statescompanies established in 1968promotion and marketing communications navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants 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