Corporate Profile for ENTEX Information Services, Inc., dated Aug. 13, 1999.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0-
Published Date: Aug. 13, 1999
Company Name: ENTEX Information Services, Inc.
Address: 6 International Drive
Rye Brook, NY 10573
Main Telephone
Number: 914/935-3600
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) http://www.entex.com/
Chief Executive
Officer: John A. McKenna, Jr.
Chief Financial
Officer: Mike Archambault
Investor Relations
Contact: Mike Archambault
Business number: 914/935-3565
Public Relations
Contact: Jill Friedlander
Business number: 914/935-3620
Industry: Distributed Computing Infrastructure Services (or IT
Services)
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: Privately Held
Company description: ENTEX Information Services See Information Systems. is a leading provider of distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. infrastructure services in the U.S., managing more than 770,000 PC desktops largely at Fortune 1000 companies. The company provides a complete spectrum of integrated technology solutions ranging from desktop and network outsourcing and professsional services to field dispatch services. ENTEX helps its customers to reduce the cost and increase the value of their information technology investments. ENTEX provides U.S. coverage through 49 sales and service locations in major metropolitan markets. Additionally, ENTEX provides global technology support through a number of international alliances. Annual revenues exceed $500 million. ENTEX came into existence in the summer of 1993 as a result of a management-led buyout Buyout The purchase of a company or a controlling interest of a corporation's shares. Notes: A leveraged buyout is accomplished with borrowed money or by issuing more stock. of the IS Division of JWP JWP Jamhoori Watan Party (Pakistan) JWP Joint Working Party JWP Joint Warfare Publication JWP Joint Warfighting Panel Information Systems - which had purchased the remnants of BusinessLand in 1991 and had hoped to find profitability in the PC distribution business. A series of financial calamities prevented JWP from realizing these goals and management decided to sell off the PC acquisition and services operations and move back to their core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
He was a friend of John Houlding and remained with him after Everton left Anfield for Goodison Park. and his management team to purchase the desktop services division with funding primarily coming from Dort Cameron III who became Entex 's Chairman. Entex only purchased JWP's U.S. operations. The IS Division's Canadian operation was bought out by 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. - Canada. ENTEX Mission "Our mission is to be the best solution provider and employer in distributed computing. The ENTEX team is dedicated to constantly improving the quality and productivity of our customers' computing environment." |
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