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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- When William S. Reed saw the first copier in the late 1950s, he knew the machines would be indispensable to businesses. Reed didn’t invent the ubiquitous office technology, but his Grand Rapids firm sold the first models in the region. That foresight helped him build the largest office equipment dealer in West Michigan. “My father is responsible for creating more paperwork in West Michigan than anybody else,” quips Reed's son, Russ. The Grand Rapids resident, who was a...

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In the 1980s, American policymakers saw Japanese chip makers as their biggest threat. With a smile on her face, American Congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley took turns with fellow lawmakers to swing sledgehammers and smash a Toshiba stereo on the grounds of the Capitol. “Treachery by any other name is still treachery,” Bentley told the assembled journalists. “But if it had another name, it would be Toshiba.” The incident occurred in July 1987, when the Japanese electronics giant faced...

re-post with corrections from 2009 How many players do we have now? Let's see: Ricoh, Xerox, Canon, KonicaMinolta, OCE, Sharp, Kyocera, Toshiba, Muratec, and Panasonic. Many moons ago, I made a few predictions regarding what I thought would happen with Ricoh Americas. To sum it up, my thoughts were that Ricoh would take all non-performing dealers and ask them to become Lanier or Savin, while keeping the top Ricoh Dealer performers. It made sense to me that the Direct Channel would then have...

Toshiba Tec is potentially going to seek an independent path from Toshiba Corp. while entering a joint manufacturing partnership with Ricoh to produce new MFPs with the same print engine a few years from now. I would maybe put Lexmark on the chopping block as it seems happy to relabel it's A4 product to Xerox, Sharp and Toshiba and somehow tries to distance itself from it's 60% owner NineStar.