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As our 33rd Annual Awards & Charities Dinner draws to a close early this morning, The Cannata Report launches our November 2018 Special Survey Issue,…

Marco, a leading technology services provider in the United States, has announced the acquisition of East Coast dealership Phillips Office Solutions. Since starting 78 years ago, Phillips has become a leading provider…

Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America has announced that Bob Madaio has joined the organization as its new vice president of marketing. In this position, Madaio will…

CDS Office Technologies has announced a merger with Tech Guy Consulting, Anna, IL. Current Tech Guy Consulting customers will continue to work with the Tech Guy team going forward and now have full access…

UBEO Business Services has announced its merger with Ray Morgan Company the largest independent Canon dealer in the Western United State…

The Cannata Report’s 33rd Annual Awards & Charities Dinner will be Alive & Kicking this year, as will the official After Party that for the first time features live music, dancing and is exclusively sponsored by All Covered…

Atlantic, Tomorrow’s Office has announced the expansion of its IT Services Division with the acquisition of Gear 3 Technologies, an IT Services provider. As part of the Atlantic organization, Gear 3 will…

ELATEC has announced a partnership with Kyocera Document Solutions America.  Under this partnership, Kyocera has included ELATEC RFID card readers as a recommended…

That sound you hear is a collective sigh of relief from the team at The Cannata Report now that we’ve completed Part II of our 33rd Annual Dealer Survey…

Atlantic celebrates the grand openning of its new greater Philadelphia area Technology Center, Square 9 hosts a high-engergy music-infused Encompass 2018…

IGAS (International Graphic Arts Show) 2018 was held in Japan July 26″“31 at Tokyo Big Sight, officially known as the Tokyo International Exhibition Center. On display…

Earlier this year Europe was hit by a massive panic wave. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was going live and was about to be enforced. Predictably,…

Two months ago, Sam Yoshida returned to Canon USA as executive vice president and general manager of Canon’s Business Imaging Solutions Group (BISG). He is…

If we had to identify the one thing we appreciate most about the dealers who respond to our survey, it’s their honesty. That’s especially true when we ask them to…

The three biggest dealer concerns, as ranked by all of our Survey respondents, continue to be competing with manufacturer’s direct branches, declining…

One of the more intriguing findings from our Survey is dealer concerns. Each year we ask dealers to identify their greatest concerns from a list of 10 options, as…

Each year we ask dealers to rate their primary A3 MFP suppliers as “Excellent,” “Very Good,” “Good,” “Fair,” or “Poor.” Occasionally, there are dealers that prefer not…

Remember the days of the old NOMDA show before NOMDA became BTA and before the OEMs began having their own individual dealer meetings? This…

In addition to asking dealers to rate their A3 manufacturers, we asked them to rate their primary A4 manufacturers. With companies such as HP, Lexmark,…

Diversity, as well as consistency, continues to rule among the Big Six independent dealer community in the number of leasing partners they are aligned with. For the…

This is the fifth consecutive year we have asked dealers to identify the companies””excluding the hardware manufacturers and leasing companies””that provide…

As we did last year for the first time, we continue to gauge dealer optimism and pessimism in three areas””A3, A4, and production print. Not every dealer offered…