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Vision is to launch a nationwide office
supplies division to complement its existing
offering in the managed print, document
and telecommunications sectors. Vision
Office Supplies will provide existing and
new clients with printer consumables,
media and entry-level office products.
UTAX targets legal sector
with regional partners
UTAX (UK) Ltd kicked off its new
Partnership Support programme by co-
sponsoring the Leeds segment of the UK’s
largest roadshow for legal professionals,
LAW2015, with its partner AFP Digital.
The first in a series of events that UTAX plans
to co-sponsor with partners, the two-day event
held in March and organised by the SOLICITORS
group is one of the largest gatherings of its kind
in the north, and this year attracted over 300 legal
professionals.
Andrew Bennell, Director of AFP Digital, said:
“We met a lot of key decision-makers over the
two days who were really interested in hearing
how print overheads could be dramatically
reduced by combining our range of relevant
software solutions with a reliable and well
managed print fleet.”
He added: “We also used the event to raise
funds for our local Air Ambulance by pledging
£100 for every new client we met at LAW2015.”
Vision to offer
office supplies
OKI Europe restructures
OKI Europe has restructured its regional
operations and senior leadership team as
part of its growth strategy.
Taka Nakano, previously Vice President, Eastern
Region and Iberia at OKI Europe Ltd, is now
Deputy Managing Director, taking over from Phil
Scrase who retires after more than two decades
with OKI.
Massimiliano Tedeschi, previously Managing
Director and Country General Manager at Lexmark
International Italy, has been made Director of
Business Development at OKI Europe.
In addition, OKI has consolidated its nine
existing OKI Europe international regions into
just four. These include a new Northern and
Western Region comprising the UK, Ireland,
Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, which
will be headed up by Takaaki Hagiwara, previously
Managing Director of OKI Systems UK and now
Regional Vice President for the Western and
Northern Region.
MBM Omega holds
open day
Surrey-based MBM Omega showcased its
wide range of business services and office
products at an Open Day in London on
March 12, 2015.
Visitors were treated to a tour of the
company’s office interiors showroom, a buffet
from the company’s business catering menu and
demonstrations of some of its products, including
3D printers. Managed print services, office supplies
and archiving and shredding services were also
represented.
Managing director James Morton said: “We
wanted to show our clients that we provide far
more than the standard range of office products
and services. We offer our clients an opportunity
to consolidate their supply chains, removing cost
from their procurement activities across a wide
range of business services.”
MSE to offer PrintReleaf
MSE Technologies, a provider of after-
market toner cartridges and printing
solutions, has introduced a new suite
of dealer solutions. These include MPS
Engineered Solutions, a comprehensive ATF
and TCO platform, and Marketing Platform
2.0, a selection of tools including the cloud-
based marketing portal Empower.
In addition, it has entered into a partnership
to offer the PrintReleaf sustainability program
in conjunction with MPS Engineered Solutions.
PrintReleaf is a cloud-based program that
calculates the environmental impact of users’ paper
consumption, expressed as the number of trees that
need to be planted in global reforestation projects
in order to offset the damage.
To date, PrintReleaf has contracted the
planting of more than 112 million trees to help
revitalise forests and offset paper consumption.
Xeretec named Xerox
partner of the year for
fourth time
For the second year running, and the
fourth time in total, Xeretec has been
named Xerox Partner of the Year.
At the annual Xerox Partner Ceremony,
hosted in London on 27th February, it also won
the Production Partner of the Year award in
recognition of its production sales and wide
range of value-add support services. These
include Break Fix and IT services, the Xeretec
Xcel web-to-print offering, flexible lease
financing options and the Xeretec Training
Academy.
In 2014, Xeretec merged with ROI Digital
and acquired Bytes Document Solutions to
become Xerox’s largest reseller in Western
Europe with an annual turnover of £60 million.
UTAX UK’s Area Sales Manager, Phil Colley (r)
with AFP Digital’s Director Andrew Bennell
Retiring: Phil Scrase
