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History Updates

Hello! As I mentioned above, I'm a Pitney Bowes employee and have a COI. I'm back with some updates to the History section. The History includes a lot of details that don't seem necessary or to offer significant information about the company's development over time. In particular there are a lot of mentions of the company's value, or revenue, number of employees or credit rating at various points. While some of these details may have offered some context to the business at the time, looking back over the entire history of the company they don't have as much significance. It also seems that some details are not organized chronologically, which is confusing.

I have created a draft that trims out these types of details, focusing on major milestones for the company and presenting them in chronological order.

To make it easy for editors to review the updates, I've listed the specific changes below and included my whole draft so that it can be easily copied across to the article, if it is approved. I’m curious if user:DatraxMada might want to take a look? Of course, happy to discuss these changes with others, too, if there’s interest! Many thanks again. MTatPitneyBowes (talk) 13:25, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Updates list

• Placed all details into chronological order
• Removed the following granular financial details:
  • Pitney Bowes was valued at around $18 billion in December 1998.
  • The company reported a profit of $498.1 million in 2003. In 2005, Pitney Bowes' revenue and earnings increased by more than 11 percent, and the company employed 32,500 people. In 2006, the company had $5.7 billion in annual revenue, and more than 35,000 employees
  • The company earned $98.6 million during the last three months of 2009, compared to $74 million the year before; during the same time, revenue decreased by 6 percent, from $1.55 billion to $1.45 billion.
  • The company employed 15,700 people and earned $3.4 billion in revenue in 2016, which was a 5 percent decrease from 2015. Profits in 2015 totaled $408 million, but were reduced to $95 million in 2016. Pitney Bowes' executives said the declines were caused by "the changeover to a new U.S. enterprise-business platform — a change that disrupted short-term business, but one they have said would significantly improve the company's long-term operations.
• Removed the following details as this was not a major initiative for Pitney Bowes:
  • Pitney Bowes announced a six-month startup accelerator program, "Scale-Up", in August 2016. Companies that participated in the program, which was a collaboration with NASSCOM's 10,000 Startups initiative, included: eCourierz, an online automated shipping tool; Infinite Analytics, a data analytics company; the digital health platform Medimojo; Niki, which uses artificial intelligence to make ordering processes simpler; Sponsifyme, a geolocation-integrated marketing platform, and Wedosky.
• Removed the paragraph about credit ratings. This may have seemed important at the time, but per the text in the article it was a short-lived issue that has not affected the company in the long term:
  • In February 2012, the credit rating for Pitney Bowes International Holdings was lowered by Fitch Ratings from BBB+ to BBB. The ratings agency said its main concern was "the downward trajectory" of Pitney Bowes' revenue, and added that they have a "negative outlook." In March 2014, Moody's assigned a long-term rating of Baa2 to the company's proposed $350 million senior unsecured notes (due 2024) and reiterated their stable outlook on PBI. Moody's cited "an improvement in the company's operating margin to around 19%, from about 15% historically, following the sale of its labor intensive management services business" and "an operational restructuring which could yield annual cost savings of up to $170 million by 2016."
• Added two new details to the end of the History, to capture recent changes that have received media coverage:
  • The company focused increasingly on e-commerce related services in the late 2010s. This area of its business grew during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it opened three e-commerce service centers in Baltimore, Orlando and Oakland in 2020. That year, the company celebrated its 100th anniversary.

References

Info box edit request

Hi, I would like to disclose I am a Pitney Bowes employee. I'm aware that this means I can't make direct edits to this page and should, when in doubt, alert other editors to my conflict of interest.

Now that we are clear about my COI, I would like to request some edits to the info box: - Replace Marc Lautenbach as President, CEO who left in October 2023 with Lance Rosenzweig as Interim CEO. - Replace Ana Marie Chadwick as Executive VP, CFO who left in April 2024 with John Witek as Interim CFO

References: https://sourcingjournal.com/topics/logistics/pitney-bowes-second-interim-ceo-lance-rosenzweig-jason-dies-global-ecommerce-cost-cuts-shipping-mail-511796/

https://csimarket.com/news/pitney-bowes-cfo-departure-raises-concerns-amidst-revenue-decrease2024-03-19130399

If any of these requests are unclear or unreasonable, please let me know and I'll try to improve them. Otherwise, I would deeply appreciate some help implementing these changes. Thanks so much. SWatPitneyBowes (talk) 15:53, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi again, I would like to reiterate I am a Pitney Bowes employee. I'm aware that this means I can't make direct edits to this page and should, when in doubt, alert other editors to my conflict of interest.

Now that we are clear about my COI, I would like to request some edits to the info box: - Replace Marc Lautenbach as President, CEO who left in October 2023 with Lance Rosenzweig as Interim CEO. - Replace Ana Marie Chadwick as Executive VP, CFO who left in April 2024 with John Witek as Interim CFO

References: https://sourcingjournal.com/topics/logistics/pitney-bowes-second-interim-ceo-lance-rosenzweig-jason-dies-global-ecommerce-cost-cuts-shipping-mail-511796/

https://csimarket.com/news/pitney-bowes-cfo-departure-raises-concerns-amidst-revenue-decrease2024-03-19130399

Hi @DatraxMada: I noticed you have implemented some changes on the page before and was wondering if you would be able to review my request. I would deeply appreciate some help implementing these changes. Please let me know if you have any questions or need any more sources. Thanks so much.SWatPitneyBowes (talk) 15:28, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Infobox and Leadership Section Edit Request

Hello! I would like to disclose that I'm a Pitney Bowes employee. I'm aware this means I can't make direct edits to this page and should alert other editors to my conflict of interest.

Now that we're clear about my COI, I would like to request some edits to the Infobox and corresponding information in the Leadership section:

-Replace Marc Lautenbach with current CEO Lance Rosenzweig: https://www.ctinsider.com/business/article/shipping-mailing-stamford-pitney-bowes-interim-ceo-19472226.php

- Remove Ana Chadwick and replace with current CFO Bob Gold: https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/PBI/company-people/executive-profile/274637430

-Remove Jason Dies and replace with current EVP and President of Sending Technology Solutions, Shemin Nurmohamed: https://theenterpriseworld.com/pitney-bowes-shemin-nurmohamed/

If any of these requests are unclear or unreasonable, please let me know and I'll try to improve them. Otherwise, I would deeply appreciate some help implementing these changes. Thanks so much! MTatPitneyBowes (talk) 13:19, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I would like to disclose that I'm a Pitney Bowes employee and this means I can't make make direct edits to this page and should alert other editors to my conflict of interest. @DatraxMada: I was hoping you may be able to review my suggested edits as you've helped implemented some changes before. Please let me know if anything requires additional information. Thank you!MTatPitneyBowes (talk) 16:26, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

COI edit request: update infobox, employees, leadership

Disclosure: I work for Pitney Bowes, so I have a conflict of interest. I will not edit the article directly; instead I am proposing neutral, sourced updates here for independent review.

Requested updates

1) Infobox "Key people"

• Remove James A. Fairweather (listed as "Senior VP, CIO").
• Rationale: His title was Chief Innovation Officer, not Chief Information Officer. His employment ended effective April 1, 2025.
• The other entries (Kurt Wolf, Paul Evans) are correct and up to date.

2) Lead paragraph – Employee count

• Current text says: "as of October 2021 employed approximately 11,000 people worldwide."
• Replace with:

As of December 31, 2024, Pitney Bowes reported approximately 7,200 employees, about 78% of whom were located in the United States.

3) Leadership section

• Current text says Marc Lautenbach is CEO, Ana-Maria Chadwick is CFO, and James Fairweather serves as chief innovation officer.
• Replace with:

In May 2025, the board appointed director Kurt Wolf as president and chief executive officer, succeeding Lance Rosenzweig. Milena Alberti-Perez has served as non-executive chair of the board since October 2024. In July 2025, former director Paul Evans was appointed executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer. Former executive vice president and chief innovation officer James A. Fairweather departed the company effective April 1, 2025.

Josedan1984 (talk) 01:56, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Done Encoded  Talk 💬 17:28, 2 October 2025 (UTC)