Ingram Micro Announces New Partnership America Participants.SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 1997--Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest distributor of technology products and services, Wednesday Wednesday: see week. announced that it has added 34 vendors to its trademark government reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. program, Partnership America. The participants offer federal, state and local and education discounts to government resellers. Partnership America helps resellers, VARs and systems integrators An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. tap into the government information technology market. It offers a range of services, including bid pricing, proposal support, contract management and processing support, state and local programs, state term schedule support, dedicated government account managers, technology refreshment, credit services and configuration support. Since its inception in 1995, Ingram Micro's Partnership America program has signed on more than 200 vendors to serve the federal, state and local government sectors. "We are pleased that our vendor partners are recognizing the importance of the ever-growing government market and turning to Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. to reach government resellers," said Curt Cornell Cornell named after New York State Veterinary College at Cornell University, NY, USA. Cornell alternative-month accelerated lambing system enables each ewe to lamb three times in every 2 years. , director of Ingram Micro's government division. "Our Partnership America program is wider in scope than any other government reseller program. The addition of these new top-tier vendors A vendor of a product that is highly recognized for its brand name. Examples of top-tier hardware vendors are HP, IBM and Apple. demonstrates that our manufacturer partners are taking advantage of this." Ingram Micro (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IM), with headquarters in Santa Ana, is the world's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services, with 1996 sales of more than $12 billion. The company operates in 19 countries and distributes more than 36,000 products to over 100,000 resellers in 120 countries. -0-
NEW PARTNERSHIP AMERICA PARTICIPANTS
Joined between April 1 and June 30:
Attachmate
Avatar Peripherals
Boca Research
Brother International
Canon
Celestica
Century Software
Citizen
Command Communications
Cybermedia
Digi International
Fargo Electronics
GoldenRam
Hansol
Hitachi Internetworking
In Focus Systems
Integrated Technology
Intersolv
Iomega
Kids USA
Lancast
Milan
NCE Storage Solutions
NSTOR
Number Nine Visual Technology
O.R. Technology
Panasonic
PORT
Simple Technology
Telebit
ViewSonic
Vocaltec
White Pine Software
Xtend Micro Products
-0- CONTACT: Ingram Micro Inc. Cindy Vergets Ragland, 714/566-1000, Ext. 3364 cindy.ragland@ingrammicro.com |
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