RANKO S.A. WINS TOSHIBA
COLOR MARKET LEADERSHIP LATIN AMERICA AWARD
IRVINE, Calif. (July 6, 2011) –Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) proudly announced today that Ranko S.A. was presented with Toshiba’s “Color Market Leadership Latin America” award. The company was recognized at Toshiba’s 2011 National Dealer Meeting held in May at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. This prestigious honor recognizes the distributor with the greatest color sales in Latin America for the previous year.
“At Ranko S.A., we have always prided ourselves on our robust Toshiba color offerings. We are honored to receive this recognition as a tribute to our dedication to growing our color sales in the region,” said Rodolfo Paskvan, president, Ranko S.A.
Ranko S.A. became the authorized Toshiba distributor for Argentina in 1994. Ranko S.A. has built a strong reputation among its network of office equipment dealers by providing excellent customer service through the Service of Attention to Cliental (SAC) program, maintaining an extensive, active inventory of hardware, genuine parts and toner supplies, and upholding a private fleet of service vehicles to respond quickly and efficiently to any and all customer needs.
“We are proud to present Ranko S.A. with this well-deserved award for their continued leadership and success, particularly in the color MFP segment of the business,” said Michael J. Mathé, vice president and general manager, International Division, TABS. “Ranko S.A. has consistently delivered excellence in sales, service and support to dealers. This is not the first Toshiba award they’ve earned and I’m sure it won’t be the last.”
For further information about Ranko S.A., or to obtain additional product and service information, please visit the company Web site at http://www.ranko.com.ar.
About Ranko S.A.
Ranko S.A. engages directly or through third parties in the following activities: marketing, distribution, purchasing, sales, representation, import, repair and delivery of graphic and data processing electronic devices such as copiers, faxes, computers, printers, and scanners, and their parts and supplies. The corporation primarily imports, sells and leases color and black and white MFPs, wide format copiers, printers and faxes, as well as implements hardware and software solutions according to the needs of individual clients.
The president of Ranko, S.A., Mr. Rodolfo Paskvan began his commercial activities in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina in 1980 as an office technology dealer. In 1991, he moved to Buenos Aires and began to import Toshiba’s devices and supplies to serve a market that, until then, was not satisfactorily covered by the competing companies in the sector. In 1994, Toshiba named Ranko as an official distributor of its line of devices for Argentina. After this designation, Ranko began to develop a network of retail distributors throughout the country.
Currently, Ranko has more than 80 distributors throughout the country, and an impressive portfolio of more than 200 corporate accounts. The company has 85 direct employees and total annual revenue of USD$40 million, including taxes.
About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc.
Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) is an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, the seventh largest electronics/electrical equipment company in the world. TABS is a leading provider of managed print and professional services (MPS and PS), and manages product planning, marketing, sales, service, support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. MPS and PS are strategic focus areas for the company, which first developed and began marketing the Encompass™ MPS program in 2003.
Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has five divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions Engineering Division; the International Division; and Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS), a wholly-owned subsidiary corporation of TABS, that operates a network of wholly-owned office equipment dealers throughout the United States.
Honored with the Channel’s Choice top award for “Superior Performance” twelve times by the Business Technology Association (BTA), Toshiba's entire product line, customer support and marketing distribution policies are markers for the industry. For more information on Toshiba products, programs, solutions and services, please visit www.copiers.toshiba.com and www.copiadores.toshiba.com.
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