DATA Communications Administration CFO James Lorimer Talks To Cantech Letter

After nearly doubling in measurement by a severe acquisition, DATA Communications Administration (DATA Communications Administration Stock Quote, Chart, Data, Analysts, Financials TSX:DCM) is entering into what CFO James Lorimer known as “a breakout yr” as integration efforts give choice to growth.

Lorimer spoke with Ticker Take host Jon Erlichman on the 2025 Cantech Funding Conference in Toronto, discussing how experience helps the Brampton-based agency redefine promoting and advertising and communications for essential Canadian organizations.

“We’re a giant print and promoting and advertising communications agency,” Lorimer acknowledged. “What items us apart out there may be that we use experience to ship very superior choices to our customers, every in bodily printed and digital communications.”

DCM CFO JAMES LORIMER SITS DOWN WITH JON ERLICHMAN AT THE 2025 CANTECH INVESTMENT CONFERENCE

He acknowledged the simplest examples of DCM’s experience in movement is its work with the financial suppliers sector.

“We work with nearly all the large Canadian banks,” Lorimer acknowledged. “All through fully completely different strains of enterprise, wealth administration, retail banking, and insurance coverage protection, they’ve very fully completely different desires and messages they should speak to their customers. We help them pull that every one collectively and do it beneath fixed branding, however moreover with specific messaging for numerous enterprise strains.”

Lorimer acknowledged the company has confronted short-term headwinds, along with postal service disruptions that affected some operations, nevertheless added that momentum stays constructive.

“Enterprise is doing properly,” he acknowledged. “We’ve had some headwinds throughout the current markets… No matter that, we’ve acquired a lot of good points taking place throughout the product sales pipeline, and I’d say our product sales pipeline is healthier than it’s ever been sooner than.”

Lorimer acknowledged 2026 must be a turning stage.

“We count on 2026 shall be slightly little bit of a breakout yr for us,” he acknowledged. “We made a severe acquisition two years previously, just about doubled the size of our enterprise. We spent the next 18 months integrating that, and the mix is properly behind us now. We’ve acquired one crew very aligned from a product sales, enterprise method, and go-to-market method. It’s been gaining traction this yr, and we look to primarily velocity up that subsequent yr.”

In April 2023, DCM acquired the Canadian operations of R.R. Donnelley & Sons (RRD Canada) for $130.8-million, a switch that almost doubled the company’s scale and expanded its client base all through the nation.

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