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NHPR News National Health Partners Announces Current Membership Base Has Increased an Amazing 62% from Q3 2006 Levels
HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Health Partners, Inc. (OTCBB: NHPR),
a leading provider of unique discount healthcare membership programs,
announced today that it has achieved the 15,000 membership milestone,
representing an amazing 62% increase in members over Q3 2006 levels. The
company stated that it expects to meet or exceed its previous forecast
of between 20,000 and 25,000 members by the end of 2006 due to its
rapidly accelerating growth in sales.
The company recently announced that it expects Q1 2007 revenue to
increase to between $3 million and $4 million due to the continuing
acceleration in revenue growth, representing an increase of between 800%
and 1,200% over Q1 2006 revenue of $324,404.
One of the reasons cited by the company for its accelerating growth is
Trident Marketing. Trident had previously announced in August that it
had committed to generating up to 5,000 new CARExpress members per month
for National Health Partners. As a result of the overwhelming success of
Trident’s recent ramp up in operations and the
much higher than anticipated sales figures, Trident is currently
generating well in excess of this amount and expects to continue
increasing its sales of the company’s
CARExpress programs each month during the remainder of 2006 and
throughout 2007. Several of the company’s
other business partners are currently ramping up sales of its CARExpress
programs in a similar manner, which has further fueled, and will
continue to fuel, the company’s growth in
sales.
David M. Daniels, President and Chief Executive Officer of National
Health Partners, stated “We are very pleased
with the effort Trident has made to ramp up its sales of our programs
and are very excited with the exceptional results they are generating.
The number of sales they are producing greatly exceeds what they were
previously forecasting, and their sales are increasing every day. We are
currently on pace to meet or exceed our previous forecast of between
20,000 and 25,000 members by the end of 2006.”
“We continue to ramp up our sales force to
meet the overwhelming demand for National Health Partners’
CARExpress programs,” stated David Reilly,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Trident Marketing. “We
are very pleased with how well CARExpress is being accepted by our
customers as they see the tremendous benefits from this wonderful
program. Our current sales volume greatly exceeds the sales volume we
were hoping to have by this time, notwithstanding the fact that we were
unable to start our CARExpress campaign as quickly as originally
planned. We expect to generate a similar or higher level of sales for
the remainder of 2006 and in intend to double our monthly sales volume
in the beginning of 2007.”
National Health Partners, Inc. is a national healthcare savings
organization that provides discount healthcare membership programs to
uninsured and underinsured people through a national healthcare savings
network called “CARExpress.”
CARExpress is one of the largest networks of hospitals, doctors,
dentists, pharmacists and other healthcare providers in the country and
is comprised of over 1,000,000 medical professionals that belong to such
PPOs as CareMark and Aetna. The company’s
primary target customer group is the 47 million Americans who have no
health insurance of any kind. The company’s
secondary target customer group includes the 61 million Americans who
lack complete health insurance coverage. The company is headquartered in
Horsham, Pennsylvania. For more information on the company, please visit
its website at www.nationalhealthpartners.com.
Trident Marketing International, Inc.
Trident Marketing International, Inc. is a leading provider of
outsourced communication solutions, specializing in customer
acquisition, customer care and retention, and interactive voice response
services. The company offers an integrated and comprehensive suite of
customer-focused contact solutions designed to help companies increase
revenue, improve call resolution, lower costs and create unparalleled
customer satisfaction. It provides these solutions to its clients
through a unique blend of highly-trained and experienced agents and
robust automated solutions. The company is headquartered in Tampa,
Florida.
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of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than
statements of historical fact contained herein, including, without
limitation, statements regarding the company’s
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the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are
reasonable, it can provide no assurance that such expectations will
prove to have been correct. Important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from the company’s
expectations include, but are not limited to, its ability to fund future
growth and implement its business strategy, its ability to develop and
expand the market for its CARExpress membership programs, demand for and
acceptance of its CARExpress membership programs, its dependence on a
limited number of preferred provider organizations and other provider
networks for healthcare providers, as well as those factors set forth in
the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB
and its other filings and submissions with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these
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