ComputerLand San Diego's shift from retail proves profitable.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 1996--ComputerLand of San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. recently celebrated 1995 as the company's most profitable year since it was founded in 1976. The system integrator ended 1995 with a record $35 million in revenues. Employee count also increased 30 percent due in large part to the success of the newly created Technical Placement division. ComputerLand, San Diego's first computer store, spent much of 1994 and 1995 restructuring its core business. When the sales of hardware and peripherals became a commodity, ComputerLand owners shifted the company focus from retail to business-to-business system consulting. "People wondered why we started closing our retail stores long before the public started reading about diminishing margins on hardware sales," said David McDonough David G. McDonough represents District 19 in the New York State Assembly, which is comprised of communities located within Nassau County, New York. First elected to the State Assembly in a special election held on February 12, 2002 and re-elected in November of 2004, , ComputerLand San Diego co-owner. "After 18 years in this business, we were able to see where the trends were headed and it just didn't make sense financially to maintain a group of storefronts. "Our focus on system integration, technical placement and consulting has been part of a quiet restructure. What we've accomplished in 1995 is the result of those efforts." ComputerLand San Diego is the third largest ComputerLand in the nation. What began as a microcomputer microcomputer Small digital computers whose CPU is contained on a single integrated semiconductor chip. As large-scale and then very large-scale integration (VLSI) have progressively increased the number of transistors that can be placed on one chip, the processing capacity reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. in 1976 has evolved into a $35 million systems integrator and solution provider. ComputerLand of San Diego has the largest service staff in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and is in fact the first computer franchise in the world. Additionally, ComputerLand San Diego was voted number one in Computing computing - computer Services in an independent poll conducted by San Diego Magazine. CONTACT: McClellan Ehrenfeld Marketing Melissa Hightower, 619/233-9966 memtkg@ix.netcom.com |
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