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The End Of The Day With Ray! Is MARCO Buying Konica Minolta U.S.? Sound Crazy? Listen In!
In today’s episode I share thoughts regarding MARCO buying KMBS. Before you thinking that is crazy! Watch the whole episode as Konica Minolta has in the past sold an entire country’s distribution to a mega dealer. With Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S. Expanding their relationship with MARCO it seems logical that there is a bigger play!
The End Of The Day With Ray! Canon 1st Qtr. FY26 - Are Profits Affected By Declines In HP Business?
share thoughts on Canon 1st qtr. and discuss the potential disaster with Canon as HP Inc print business continues declining. Canon maybe way over optimistic in their believes regarding their HP Inc relationship. Canon also should be concerned that their print business exceeds 55% of the conglomerates revenues and over 80% of the conglomerates total operating profit. Canon has not been able to grow its other business units enough to be considered a successful diversification. I don't believe Canon takes serious its threats.
The End Of The Day With Ray! Kyocera FY 26 - Looking At The #s & Thoughts To Shake Things Up!
Kyocera must look at their great successes and do more around those successes! The marketplace needs OEMs to shake things up! In the U.S. marketplace dealers of at least one OEM are looking for a more dealer friendly OEM Kyocera and others should be aggressively going after that distribution. The dealers need a strong differentiator and Kyocera is one of the OEMs who can deliver that differentiation.
The End Of The Day With Ray! REMEMBER The Retired BTA Lawyer BLESSING The Konica Dealer Contract?
n this episode I recall my outrage over the Old Retired BTA Lawyer blessing the Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S. dealer contract. WELL Apparently I was correct in being outraged! Let's go back in time to last year and listen to what the retired BTA Lawyer and the host of Friday's with Frank had to say in their two part interview. I believe they both were too focused on blessing an OEM contract instead of focusing on the dealers.
The End Of The Day With Ray! Konica Minolta U.S. Gets New CEO of IT Services, Here's My Thinking!
Konica Minolta Business U.S. brings in CEO to head up the U.S. Managed IT Services business! After reading the press release I thought It necessary to share my thinking. As I believe Konica Minolta Business U.S. is not addressing what I see as the realities of their 15 year journey into IT Services.