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Chickasha-headquartered Standley Systems has acquired Enid Typewriter Co. “We are honored to join forces with ETC, a fellow Oklahoma-owned company, and expand our technology services in Northwest Oklahoma,” Standley Systems CEO Tim Elliott said. “We strengthened our team by adding proven, respected professionals to our staff. Also, gaining additional warehouse facilities enables us to provide equipment and service more quickly than ever before.” Standley Systems specializes in solutions for...

The report below is adapted from a the work of Frank G. Cannata, President of Marketing Research Consultants LLC (MRC), an acknowledged leading analyst in the copier/office products and workflow solutions industry and the voice of the industry’s independent dealer network. Frank serves as Editor-In-Chief and Publisher of THE CANNATA REPORT, a monthly magazine that focuses on the independent dealer channel and their efforts in the office products and workflow solutions industry. MANSFIELD --...

I sold a few of these in the late eighties and early nineties. Towa Corporation was based out of Morrisville, PA. They had a small dealer channel, in addition to typewriters they also sold copiers and cash registers. They re-label Sanyo copiers. Frak does anyone remember Sanyo!

I was shocked when I saw this. Global still buying, wonder why that is when paper in the office is on the decline.

That one stings for Ricoh. I think it is the start of many dealers going away from Ricoh. MT was I believe, an 80 million dollar dealer and I believe single line Ricoh.

I can't imagine Ricoh would have sold them some of their SMB accts just weeks ago & then this happened? They had to know about it & dodged that part of the bullet.

I bet Ricoh had no clue they were up for sale. Ricoh didn't handle this SMB account sell off well at all and I wonder how much due diligence was done other than to get their nickels on the dollar for the accounts and run.

by Rick Saia on May 15, 2017, 7:06 pm EDT Printer-friendly version Email this CRN article Xerox's Global Imaging Systems (GIS) division has acquired an Ohio-based dealer of multivendor office equipment and managed print services in the first shot in its $100 million effort to convert multibrand solution providers into Xerox-exclusive partners. The acquisition effectively kicks Xerox competitors Ricoh and HP off MT Technologies' line card in the midst of an A3 copier printer market share war.

Selling Typewriters to Selling Copiers was not a business transition; don’t fool yourself. I recently read an article where some in the document industry discussed that the industry’s actors could easily transition to IT services because the industry used to sell typewriters. WTF! Was my response. In November, I spoke at the BTA meeting in Asheville, NC. The topic, transitioning from a print-centric deliverable to an IT services deliverable. In this presentation, I went through some...

When we find something unusual, we always have such response in our mind, so not a big deal. You find that news unusual so you responded alike. No problem at all. __________________________ Anthony Constantinou CEO CWM FX

Don't forget the Palm Pilot.

Dang, I did forget that!!! I had at least three of them over the years! Good pickup fisher!!

While on a long drive to one of my accounts on the fringe of my territory, I had time to think about some of the technologies that I've used to help me sell copiers.   The Phone in a Bag:   Pretty cool right!  For you newbies, you...