ARCpoint Inc. (TSXV: ARC) (the “
Company” or
“
ARCpoint”) a leading US-based franchise system
providing drug testing, alcohol screening, DNA and clinical lab
testing services, is pleased to announce that Mr. Bob Mann has been
appointed President of ARCpoint Franchise Group LLC
(“
AFG”), a wholly owned US subsidiary of the
Company that operates ARCpoint’s franchise business. Mr. Mann comes
to AFG with over 20 years of successful leadership and innovation
experience including 15 years in the US diagnostic services space.
He will be responsible for driving both top line growth at all
franchisee locations and growing the Company’s distribution network
from the current 134 locations.
ARCPoint CEO John Constantine stated “Our top
priority right now is to increase revenues by making it easier for
customers to access and use our products and services, thereby
removing sales impediments for our franchisees with their B2B
customers, and at the same time driving more individual consumer
traffic through franchisee locations. The key to our success in
these endeavours will be the adoption of our new technology
platform by both franchisees and consumers”.
The Company has now largely completed its new,
integrated technology platform comprised of MyARCpointLabs and
Total Reporting. The MyARCpointLabs portal for direct-to-consumer
testing is an e-commerce platform that will make it much easier for
individual customers to find and order the clinical tests that are
available through the ARCpoint system. Total Reporting, the
Company’s B2B portal, will allow ARCpoint’s franchisees to market
more services through a more efficient, integrated platform that is
much easier for B2B customers to use. Currently, about one-third of
the AFG network has signed up and trained on the Total Reporting
system. Deployment in initial locations of the Company’s consumer
facing platform, MyARCpointLabs, is expected in the second quarter
of 2023.
Mr. Constantine concluded, “For this reason, we
are excited that Bob is joining us to lead the franchise group
given his track record of successfully developing and implementing
programs and processes to drive revenue in the healthcare
diagnostics industry”.
On joining the ARCpoint team Mr. Mann said, “I
couldn’t be more excited to work with this team and group of
owners. We are focused on the successful rollout of our new
platform which we expect will drive revenue and profitability for
our franchisees and our system as a whole. We believe the
proprietary nature of the platform gives our owners a unique
advantage and ARCpoint a unique value as a company.“
About Bob MannMr. Mann started
his diagnostics career at Quest Diagnostics in 2006 as a Sales
Manager for Quest’s NC and SC sales teams before taking on
different roles including: leading new business acquisition,
developing strategies for growth and working with health plans and
large healthcare entities. In 2012, he joined Cordant Health
Solutions, then known as Sterling Healthcare, which went on to
acquire five laboratories and six pharmacies to grow into one of
the leading toxicology labs and behavioral health pharmacies in the
US. For the past 8 years, Mr. Mann served as part of Cordant’s
Executive Leadership team and held several key roles, including as
Executive Vice President of Cordant’s Integrated Services group and
overseeing sales and strategy. He was instrumental in the
development of many of Cordant’s strategic toxicology and pharmacy
offerings and also led the development of Cordant’s novel
behavioral health pharmacy program that integrated laboratory and
pharmacy services.
About
ARCpoint
Inc.ARCpoint is a leading US-based franchise system
providing drug and alcohol testing, DNA and clinical lab testing,
corporate wellness programs, and employment background screening,
among other services. The Company is based in Greenville, South
Carolina, USA. ARCpoint Franchise Group LLC, (“AFG”) formed under
the laws of the state of South Carolina in February 2005, is the
franchisor of ARCpoint Labs and supports over 130 independently
owned locations. ARCpoint sells franchises to individuals
throughout the United States and provides support in the form of
marketing, technology and training to new franchisees. ARCpoint
Corporate Labs LLC develops corporate-owned labs committed to
providing accurate, cost-effective solutions for customers,
businesses and physicians. AFG Services LLC serves as the
innovation center of the ARCpoint group of companies as it builds a
proprietary technology platform and a physician network to equip
all ARCpoint labs with best-in-class tools and solutions to better
serve their customers. The platform also digitalizes and
streamlines administrative functions such as materials purchasing,
compliance, billing and physician services for ARCpoint franchise
labs and other clients.
For more information, please contact:
ARCpoint Inc.Jason Tong, Chief Financial
OfficerPhone: (604) 889-7827E-mail: invest@arcpointlabs.com
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(collectively referred to hereafter as “forward-looking
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well as trends identified by the Company affecting it and the
healthcare services industry can be found in the Company’s 2022
Annual MD&A and its continuous disclosure record available on
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factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there
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