Danka Partners With NexPress and Heidelberg to Win City of Toronto Contract; Agreement Features Placement of Heidelberg Digimaster 9110 Print Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2004 Danka Business Systems PLC (Nasdaq:DANKY) today announced that its Canadian subsidiary, Danka Canada, Inc., has won a contract to install and service eight Heidelberg Digimaster(R) 9110 print systems at five municipal government locations in Toronto, Canada. These systems, along with the four Toshiba e-STUDIO 810 large workgroup devices provided by Danka, will generate 70 million images per year and meet the city government's document production requirements in all five boroughs. "This exciting agreement with the municipal government of Toronto The municipal government of Toronto consists of 44 elected councillors (representing around 55,000 people each), who along with the mayor, make up the Toronto City Council. Torontonians elect a new government every four years, in November. -- a vibrant city of 3 million people -- is the result of close cooperation with Heidelberg Canada and NexPress Solutions, a joint venture of Heidelberg and Eastman Kodak Company," said Danka executive Michael Popielec, President and COO of Danka International, who recently was named COO of Danka's soon-to-be-formed Americas Group. "Danka is the leading independent provider of Heidelberg-branded systems in the Americas, with the more than 600 units under contract. Our ongoing success with the Digimaster series is a tribute to the shared commitment of Danka and NexPress to provide customers with superior solutions for their document production needs." Danka's agreement with the City of Toronto also includes the installation of front-end Danka @ the Desktop(TM) software designed to streamline production by providing easy-to-use document merging and integration capabilities. Danka system engineers will connect the Heidelberg and Toshiba systems with the city government's existing network environment, and Danka field technicians will provide ongoing technical service and support. Danka's Canadian business Canadian Business is the longest-publishing business magazine in Canada. It was founded in 1928 as The Commerce of the Nation, the organ of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. The magazine was renamed Canadian Business in 1933. serves customers from the Atlantic Maritimes to British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography , with operations in all major cities and 20,000 office and production systems under contract. On April 1, Danka Canada will become part of the company's new Americas Group, which will combine Danka operations in Canada, 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. , Mexico and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . "Our long relationship with Danka continues to yield benefits for NexPress and our shared customers," commented NexPress Solutions Executive Vice President, Mark Weber Mark Weber is president of the Legion for the Survival of Freedom and director of the Institute for Historical Review, an American Holocaust denial[1] organization. Weber has been associated with the IHR since 1991 and has been the Institute Director since 1995. . "Our joint solution will provide the City of Toronto with a much-needed upgrade of its outdated out·dat·ed adj. Out-of-date; old-fashioned. outdated Adjective old-fashioned or obsolete Adj. 1. equipment, delivering increased productivity and expanded capability. This agreement builds on a series of Heidelberg Digimaster wins with Danka in the insurance, retail, and higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. markets." Digimaster(R) is a trademark of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG About Danka Danka delivers value to clients worldwide by using its expert technical and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. to implement effective document information solutions. As one of the largest independent providers of enterprise imaging systems and services, the company enables choice, convenience, and continuity. Danka's vision is to empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems customers to benefit fully from the convergence of image and document technologies in a connected environment. This approach will strengthen the company's client relationships and expand its strategic value. For more information, visit Danka at www.danka.com. Certain statements contained in this press release, including statements related to Danka's future business and financial performance, are forward-looking. Such statements reflect the current views of Danka with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward looking statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date they are made. Danka is a registered trademark and Danka @ the Desktop and TechSource are trademarks of Danka Business Systems PLC. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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