FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ricoh Web Site: www.ricoh-usa.com
CONTACT: Dan Neel Russell Marchetta
CMP Channel Ricoh Americas Corporation
516.562.7236 973.882.2075
dneel@cmp.com Russell.marchetta@ricoh-usa.com
RICOH RECEIVES CMP CHANNEL’S VARBUSINESS ANNUAL REPORT CARD AWARD
Honored for Partnership in the Workgroup Color Printer Category
West Caldwell, NJ, September 4, 2007 – Ricoh Americas Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced that it has received an Annual Report Card (ARC) award from CMP Channel's VARBusiness for Partnership in the Workgroup Color Printer category. Now in its 22nd year, the VARBusiness ARC awards acknowledge outstanding partner programs and superb vendor service in 15 product and service categories including mobile computers, mainstream business servers, data and information management software, and security appliances.
“We are thrilled to have received an ARC award from VARBusiness,” said Ann Moser, senior vice president, Printing Solutions Division, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “Winning this award validates out commitment to providing world-class products and services that help improve our customers’ bottom line and establishes our credibility as the leading provider of color printing solutions.”
Winners were selected by VARBusiness’s editorial staff based on feedback from more than 5,000 systems integrators, IT consulting organizations, value-added resellers (VARs), solution providers and software developers. Ricoh earned the award for Partnership by recording the highest overall score in ease of doing business in the category.
“Because vendors taking part in the VARBusiness Annual Report Card are selected by their own solution provider partners, the Annual Report Card has over the last 22 years become the defining research on vendor/partner relationships,” said Robert C. Demarzo, vice president and editorial director, CMP Channel. "We salute each of the vendors named on this year's ARC."
The ARC awards were given out during a ceremony at the CMP Channel's XChange ’07 Conference in Orlando, Florida on August 21.
About Ricoh’s Printing Solutions Division
The Printing Solutions Division (PSD) of Ricoh Americas Corporation is committed to meeting the critical needs of the company’s resellers and their customers by providing world-class printers and multifunction solutions that enhance document workflow. The PSD offers resellers that are Ricoh Reward Members a wide variety of marketing and support programs to help drive revenue and profits including the Rewards Program, Demo Program and Royalties Program.
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company Ltd., the 71-year-old leading supplier of office automation equipment and electronics, with fiscal year 2006 sales in excess of $17 billion, a 8.4 percent increase over the previous year. Information about Ricoh's Printing Solutions Division can be accessed on the World Wide Web at www.ricoh-usa.com/resellers.
About VARBusiness (www.varbusiness.com)
For the past 20 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the commercial and public sector (or government) Solution Provider community. The VARBusiness integrated platform of media opportunities provides strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness offerings lead vendors and distributors to unprecedented access to the most powerful strategic Solution Providers in the market. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design.
About The CMP Channel
The CMP Channel is the one stop shop customers turn to in order to meet their global sales channel objectives from access to execution. Through use of its family of channel solutions which include CRN and VARBusiness, the ChannelWeb network, the Group's XChange worldwide face-to-face conferences and the Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED), vendors are able to accelerate sales through the channel. CMP Channel provides a worldwide answer to advertising, branding and marketing services, lead generation, market intelligence, branded and custom events, education of solution providers and best practices for vendors.
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