Business News of Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Source: MITSUMI

Mitsumi to Showcase Latest Technology Gadgets at GITEX 2013

Achieving a revenue of $245 million in 2012, a leading IT and consumer electronics distributor - Mitsumi Distribution; is set to double its revenue by the end of 2013. Poised for strong growth, the company will now serve the African region from its new headquarters in Dubai.

Exhibiting at GITEX 2013 from 20-24th October, 2013; Mitsumi will use the exhibition to reinforce its presence and showcase products / solutions from 19 global technology vendors such as HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Riverbed, Tripplite, Dell, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Western Digital, Sandisk, Dell Sonic Wall and Microsoft amongst others. Having 15 warehouses, 9 service centres and over 3,500 resellers across the MEA region, the distributor is bullish about its future growth.

At the exhibition, Mitsumi will take the opportunity to highlight the need of buying genuine products from authorized resellers. In addition, to prevent grey market abuse the company will offer intensive training and other innovative sales incentive programs for resellers to help them operate in a competitive market.

“Mitsumi has 17 years strong presence in Africa and we aim to replicate this success in the Middle East, We understand the needs of companies and how important it is for resellers to have resilient distributor for a more sustainable operation in a competitive market,” explained Mitesh Shah, Managing Director, Mitsumi Distribution.

“Attracting a large number of visitors and decision makers, Gitex has facilitated in meeting new customers and building strong partnership with the channel community. We hope to achieve the same success this year,” Mr. Shah added.

At Gitex 2013, MITSUMI Distribution will be located at Consumer Technology - Hall 8, Stand number A8-10

The company was established in Kenya since 1996, Mitsumi Distribution is the largest IT distributor in Africa. They are authorized distributors for leading global IT hardware & software brands.

Their growing portfolio includes HP, Dell, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung, Microsoft, Western Digital, Huawei, BenQ, SanDisk, EPSON, Dell SonicWALL, Tripplite, Riverbed, IBM, D-Link, and Linksys. For more information, visit www.mitsumidistribution.com