TOSHIBA AMERICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. NAMES FIRST TOSHIBA CERTIFIED INNOVATION DEALER AWARD WINNER
Hagan Business Machines of Meadville Earns New Dealer Award for Demonstrating Market Leadership and Creating Exceptional Toshiba Customer Awareness
IRVINE , California ( Aug 05, 2008 ) :
In an effort to recognize outstanding service, support and market achievement by the dealer community, Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) announced today that Pennsylvania-based Hagan Business Machines of Meadville is the first to earn the Toshiba Certified Innovation Dealer Award. This newly-created annual program is designed to single out exceptional Toshiba authorized dealers who demonstrate innovation and market leadership by implementing the full complement of Toshiba’s marketing, sales and service programs.
“Toshiba is very pleased to name Hagan Business Machines of Meadville as our first Toshiba Certified Innovation Dealer Award recipient, and we congratulate Jay Verno, Craig Guy and their dedicated staff in their continued efforts in championing the Toshiba brand,” said Kay Fernandez, vice president, Marketing, TABS. “The Toshiba Certified Innovation Dealer designation and award is our way to publicly distinguish those members of our national authorized dealer community that go above and beyond in promoting and supporting Toshiba’s best-in-class services, products and solutions to their end customers. Congratulations, Hagan Business Machines of Meadville, on this well deserved award.”
First announced at the 2008 Toshiba National Dealer Meeting, the Toshiba Certified Innovation Dealer Award program evaluates authorized Toshiba dealers on their active use of Toshiba’s full array of marketing, sales and service programs. To qualify as a Toshiba Certified Innovation Dealer, organizations must be nominated by Toshiba district sales managers and regional sales directors, and are judged on 13 separate criteria in three categories: 1) Innovation in Customer Service; 2) Innovation in Marketing; and 3) Innovation in Market Achievement. Top scoring dealerships are awarded the Toshiba Certified Innovation Dealer designation, an Innovation Dealer Award trophy, and other elite benefits.
“As an independent dealer, it’s very important that you choose a partner that will not only support you with quality products and solutions, but also support your sales and marketing initiatives as well, and Toshiba is among the best at understanding the personalized market approach we employ,” said Jay Verno, co-owner, Hagan Business Machines of Meadville. “Having been an authorized Toshiba dealer for more than 14 years, Hagan Business Machines of Meadville is especially honored to be named the first-ever Toshiba Certified Innovation Dealer. Toshiba has been a great partner to work with, and their long history of leading innovation helps us meet the unique daily demands and needs of our customers.”
About Hagan Business Machines
Winner of the 2007 Dealer of the Year Award from the Business Technology Association (BTA), Hagan Business Machines was founded in 1950 by Paul Hagan as a typewriter sales and service business. The Pennsylvania-based 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 Hagan Business Machines of Butler 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. For more information about Hagan Business Machines, please visit our website at: http://www.hagan1.com/.
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 nine 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” seven 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.