Computer City Plans to Open Two New Stores in September.FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 1996--Computer City, one of North America's largest computer superstore retailers, will open two new stores during September in Holyoke, Mass., and Manchester, Conn. The new locations will open on Sept. 19 and will be the chain's 110th and 111th stores worldwide. They will be the first Computer City location in each of these markets. "Computer City's entrance into these markets will allow us to offer the best in computer hardware and software to the residents of Holyoke and Manchester," said Computer City President Matthew Howard. Computer City opened its first U.S. location in October of 1991. Since that time, the company has expanded to include 109 stores in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada and Europe. Computer City offers more than 3,800 different computer hardware and software products form leading vendors, including Apple, AST (AST Computer, Irvine, CA) A PC manufacturer founded in 1980 by Albert Wong, Safi Quershey and Tom Yuen (A, S and T). It offered a complete line of PCs that sold through its dealer channel. , Compaq, Hewlett Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Packard Bell See Packard Bell NEC. , Aldus, Broderbund, Intuit in·tu·it tr.v. in·tu·it·ed, in·tu·it·ing, in·tu·its Usage Problem To know intuitively. [Back-formation from intuition. and Microsoft. Computer City offers a 110 percent price guarantee. The company will match advertised prices of other retailers on any in-stock item it carries. If the item is advertised elsewhere at a lower price within 30 days of purchase, Computer City will refund 110 percent of the difference. Through its Corporate Sales group, Computer City provides solutions, technology products and services for the commercial, government, education and special interest markets at each of its retail stores. Through a National Accounts Program, Computer City provides project coordination, product distribution and program management services to businesses of all sizes. Computer City and Electronic Data Systems (EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. ) have formed an alliance to offer additional services to corporate customers, including immediate pricing and availability estimates. EDS will provide logistics management Logistics Management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet for the company, enabling the installation of an order management system for Computer City that includes order processing, personal computer (PC) procurement and PC integration and distribution services for corporate clients. In addition to logistics services, systems provided through EDS will give Computer City the ability to track and monitor orders more efficiently. Computer City is a division of Tandy Corporation Tandy Corporation was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, which is best known for purchasing and giving its name to the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based RadioShack Corporation. . The company will open 15-20 new locations during 1996. Sales in 1995 were $1.8 billion. -0- TRADEMARKS: Computer City is a registered service mark of Tandy Corporation. The absence of a (R) or a (TM) in connection with the marks identifying products of other vendors does not indicate the absence of registration of those marks. CONTACT: Computer City Mieke Henderson, 817/347-7624 |
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