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Gancom, a provider of laser printing/data processing services, acquired MDS Inc., a mailing-services company, on May 31. Neither privately held company would disclose the sale price.
MDS officials said 1995 sales ranged between $1 million and $1.5 million. Gancom is a division of Gannett Fleming Inc.
Initially, Gancom will remain at its present site on Senate Avenue in Camp Hill, and MDS operations will stay on East Trindle Road in Mechanicsburg. But a Gancom spokesman said the company is seeking real estate in the Harrisburg area to consolidate both operations.
The two companies are not strangers. Gancom has been subcontracting its mailing-service jobs to MDS for about 12 years.
But when Gancom's customers in Philadelphia and New Jersey requested that the company provide them with one-stop service, Gancom asked MDS...