Have you been watching IKONs stock lately, keeps ticking up and up, rumor on the street is that HP http://www.hp.com/ is may acquire IKON http://www.ikon.com/ very soon!
Can you imagine after the bombshell Xerox http://www.xerox.com/ dropped a few months ago with Global http://www.gis.com/ , I for one thought that Ricoh or Canon would pull the trigger with either Ikon or Danka, but HP?
Can you image the ramifications of such a buyout to Canon http://www.imagerunner.com/ & Ricoh http://www.ricoh-usa.com/ ! Seems to me that buying distribution points is the only way to increase market share. Ricoh was one of the first to do it in recent years, then Oce, and then Xerox http://www.xerox.com/.
You can even see it in the low end distribution where manufacturers branches are dumping boxes to gain market share and increase consumables revenues down the road.
Round and round we go, where we stop, nobody knows!
Can you imagine after the bombshell Xerox http://www.xerox.com/ dropped a few months ago with Global http://www.gis.com/ , I for one thought that Ricoh or Canon would pull the trigger with either Ikon or Danka, but HP?
Can you image the ramifications of such a buyout to Canon http://www.imagerunner.com/ & Ricoh http://www.ricoh-usa.com/ ! Seems to me that buying distribution points is the only way to increase market share. Ricoh was one of the first to do it in recent years, then Oce, and then Xerox http://www.xerox.com/.
You can even see it in the low end distribution where manufacturers branches are dumping boxes to gain market share and increase consumables revenues down the road.
Round and round we go, where we stop, nobody knows!
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