Tagged With "Ford"

Congrats to the team at Ford Business Machines!

I was sitting in the lounge at the car dealership a few days ago, waiting on my free oil change. Well, they call it ‘free’ - it was probably included in the price somewhere on line 267 of all that car paperwork. Anyway, the lounge is actually very nice, and everyone waiting with me had at least one thing common. If you’re not sure what that is, please stop reading. Even though my car is not a Ford and my wife’s T-Bird wasn’t ready for an oil change, maybe it was the fact the car dealership...

Montour School District has approved a new five-year copier contract with a division of the same company the district paid for duplicate, overlapping copier leases for 12 months back in 2009 and 2010. The school board in June voted to enter into the new contract with Paperless Technologies, a division of Connellsville-based Ford Business Machines Inc. From August 2009 through July 2010, the district paid $325,000 to Ford Business for two overlapping copier leases. The district later received...

CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. , Aug. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ford Business Machines has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2019 honor by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by research partner Energage , LLC, a leading provider of technology-based employee engagement tools. The anonymous survey measures several aspects of workplace culture, including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few. Ford...

John M. Garlow, CEO and founder of Ford Business Machines, was admired as a businessman but also known for his respect for others and service to the community. The Uniontown man died Feb. 5 at age 60. “He was at his best whenever he was helping,’’ said Johnathan Garlow, his son and president of Ford Business Machines. Garlow was born Dec. 3, 1957, in Elyria, Ohio, a son of the late Jay Marcus and Mary Louise (Ford) Garlow. He served in the Navy from 1978 to 1983 where he was a weapons system...

CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. , May 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ford Business Machines, western Pennsylvania's largest independent copier/printer dealer and complete office technology solution company, was recognized as western Pennsylvania's Governor's Employer Award winner at the 35 th Annual Employment, Training, and Education Conference at the Employer Awards Luncheon held on May 8 th in Hershey , PA. Caption: Ford Business Machines accepts the 2019 Governor’s Achievement Award for Employers during...

Looking across the past twenty years of technology, I can confidently say that 2008 brought the most monumental shift because of the rise of the smartphone—which changed everything we do, from work and play to communication and productivity. Looking ahead, there are two rising technologies that I believe will have an impact as dramatic as the smartphone. These changes are the rise of artificial intelligence in all our digital interactions and the rise of the digital automobile. The iPhone is...