Minneapolis, 3 March 2006 – Buhrs announces that Kevin G. Thompson has been appointed President of Buhrs Americas, Inc., starting 1 March 2006. Mr. Thompson holds a Bachelors degree from the Utah State University. Mr. Thompson has fulfilled different sales positions such as account representative, sale team manager, division sales manager, district manager, and vice-president of sales in the following companies: Neopost, Pitney Bowes, Francotyp-Postalia and Secap. During 2005 Buhrs has demonstrated a sharp increase in sales above the 2004 level, particularly in the field of envelope inserting systems, film and paper wrapping systems and custom built systems. Buhrs is the leading worldwide provider of mailing and fulfillment solutions. Buhrs develops, manufactures, sells and services a range of equipment for film and paper wrapping, envelope inserting and fulfillment. Buhrs systems prepare media products such as magazines, newspapers, computer output, direct mailing products, books, videos, compact discs and credit cards for distribution. Buhrs is partner to postal organizations, publishers, printers, binders, mailing houses, letter shops, banks, service bureaus, insurance companies, fulfillment companies and many other companies ranging from medium-sized to leading businesses. With over 4,000 systems installed worldwide and four new installations per week, Buhrs is well established and proud of its reputation for quality and reliability. Headquartered in Rotterdam, Buhrs has a network of subsidiaries in The Netherlands, Germany, France, the United States of America, Malaysia, China and Japan as well as industry-qualified distributors to provide global coverage.