HAGAN BUSINESS MACHINES OF MEADVILLE INC. WINS PRESTIGIOUS DEALER OF THE YEAR AWARD FROM THE BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION
Pennsylvania Dealership for Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. Receives BTA’s 2007 Award of Excellence
IRVINE , California ( Mar 22, 2007 ) :
Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS), is proud to announce that the Business Technology Association (BTA) named Hagan Business Machines of Meadville, Inc. – TABS authorized dealership in Pennsylvania – the 2007 Dealer of the Year in the $3 million and below gross sales revenue category, at the 2007 Imaging Technology Education & Exposition (ITEX) show in Las Vegas. Based on careful analysis of all aspects of the dealership, Hagan of Meadville was chosen as BTA’s Dealer of the Year from among the numerous dealerships that participated in the Awards of Excellence program.
“Hagan of Meadville is honored to accept the Dealer of the Year award from BTA,” said Jay Verno, co-owner, Hagan Business Machines of Meadville. “We’d like to thank our partners at Toshiba and others who have helped us achieve this goal. Our success is highly attributed to the Toshiba Encompass™ needs analysis program and the Re-Rite™ software, which met the unique demands and needs of our customers.”
In addition to evaluating financial performance, BTA evaluates the dealerships’ operations, such as employee and customer programs and business growth patterns, strategic vision, and community and industry involvement.
“TABS is thrilled that Hagan of Meadville has been honored with this prestigious award from BTA and we congratulate Hagan for its achievements,” said Mark Mathews, vice president, general manager, TABS. “Our partnership with Hagan has been very beneficial over the years and we are looking forward to continually providing Hagan, as well as all of our dealers, the best quality products and services to fulfill the needs and demands of our customers.”
Hagan of Meadville has been serving the Crawford, Mercer and Venango counties since 1985 and is independently owned by Jay Verno and Craig Guy. The company has been exclusively distributing TABS products since 1994 and has had record sales in the first half of the 2006/2007 fiscal year.
About Business Technology Association
The Business Technology Association is an international organization serving dealers, value-added resellers, systems integrators, manufacturers and distributors in the office technology industry. BTA helps its members profit through a wide variety of services, including free legal counseling, benchmarking studies and reports, the latest news about trends and products in the industry, cutting-edge educational opportunities and hard-hitting publications. For more information on BTA, please visit its Web site at www.bta.org or call (800) 505-2821.
About Hagan Business Machines
Hagan Business Machines was founded in 1950 by Paul Hagan as a typewriter sales and service business. The company later expanded into other product lines which included duplicating machines, calculators and eventually copy machines. Today, Hagan offers state-of-the-art products for copying, printing, scanning and faxing along with reconditioned equipment. The Meadville facility has been locally owned and operated by Jay Verno and Craig Guy since 1992 and the Butler location was opened in 1998.
Hagan Business Machines provides quality products and reliable service to all of Crawford, Mercer, Venango, Butler, Lawrence, Beaver and Armstrong counties.
About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc.
Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) 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, Brazil, Latin America, and the Caribbean. 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 TOPAC U.S.A., Inc., dba 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.
Named the most favored manufacturer ten times by the Business Technology Association (BTA), Toshiba’s entire product line, customer support and marketing distribution policies are markers for the industry. Among the many other awards garnered in recent years, Toshiba was named the “Manufacturer of the Year” eight times by Marketing Research Consultants (MRC), and has twice been named to the CIO 100 for being among the top 100 “bold” (2005) and “agile” (2004) companies in the world.
TABS is an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, the seventh largest electronics/electrical equipment company and the world's 91st largest company in terms of sales. Ranked by Fortune magazine as the eighth Most Admired Electronics Company in the World, Toshiba Corporation is a world leader in high technology products with more than 300 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Fiscal year revenue in 2007 was approximately $76.6 billion.
For more information on Toshiba copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers or toner products, or for a dealer in your area, call (800)-GO-TOSHIBA or visit the TABS Web site at www.copiers.toshiba.com
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