Corporate Backgrounder

A new idea or creative solution is intriguing, but only if those solutions can hold up to the daily rigors of changing business needs.

BÖWE BELL + HOWELL is an international manufacturer of integrated, multiuse mail processing solutions that are designed and real-world engineered for flexibility, reliability and maximum productivity. Because our systems are designed to connect easily with other brand components and legacy applications, our solutions meet virtually every customer need, regardless of company size or complexity of their mail operations. With more than 70 years of innovation and a reputation as an industry-leading solutions provider, BÖWE BELL + HOWELL provides a dynamic product line and service portfolio, backed by our renowned network of more than 1,100 customer support professionals.

How do we ensure our solutions work for you and your business, today and for years to come? The answer can be traced back over 100 years to when it all began. It was Albert Williams, our founder, who believed that life could be made easier through an insightful approach to innovation. He was known for developing new ideas that were far beyond mere tacit improvements in technology. By combining the analytical (what could work) with the practical (what would work), along with his ingenious creativity, he created mailing solutions that revolutionized the mailing industry, including the very first automated mailing machine he invented over 70 years ago.

Seventy years later and still going strong, we continue to live and breathe this legacy.

Internationally known throughout our industry and among our customers for always putting our customers goals ahead of anything else, at BÖWE BELL + HOWELL, we focus our business to help your business be successful. This starts with helping you maximize your mail operations investment, getting the most productivity and time-saving efficiency possible while anticipating your changing needs. From the very beginning of a new customer relationship and continuously throughout, we work to establish a thorough understanding of your business challenges so we can offer thoughtful end-to-end solutions that exceed your expectations and provide you more value. From engineering to service and from sales to support, your BÖWE BELL + HOWELL team is with you every step of the way. Simply put, your success is our priority.

Our ability to anticipate customer needs comes from the fact that we do more than just listen to our customers. It was Henry Ford who once said, "If I'd only listened to customers, I'd have developed faster horses." We work every day to foster a culture of collaboration with our customers that drive the creation of new ideas. Working as "one" with our customers enables us to experience your mail operations from within your organization. Through this intimate understanding, we help you benefit from changes in technology, industry trends and the regulatory environment. By leveraging our sophisticated supply chain and Six Sigma manufacturing networks around the globe, we continuously gain critical technology insights that enable us to deliver flexible enterprise solutions and service programs that help you reduce costs, increase productivity and anticipate change.

Our Mission

BÖWE BELL + HOWELL is a trusted global organization comprised of passionate associates creating and delivering progressive solutions that add value, quality and profitability to our customer's document processing operations.

Our Vision

To be the sought-after global manufacturing leader in mail document processing and finishing solutions across an ever-expanding new media marketplace, that actively seeks out new opportunities to provide unique value to customers by engaging the full potential of our organization to support and accelerate innovation through a market-driven management focus, based on understanding our customers' unspoken and evolving needs and leveraging our global network for ideation and quality execution. This is BÖWE BELL + HOWELL.