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One of the genuine pleasures of conducting this year’s dealer tour has been meeting with people who were in the business…

In last month’s annual Women Influencers issue, we provided a Frank Award nominee preview in the category of “Best…

Our dealer road tour is producing results far beyond what I had expected and even hoped for. I have always maintained our…

Imagine sitting down to an executive meeting, having years of valuable industry knowledge and experience, and being able to…

The nominees for the 2017 “Best Woman Executive” Frank award are: Two-time winner Laura Blackmer, SVP, Sales, Sharp…

The year 2017 has been a monumental one for Smile Business Products, Inc. (Smile) and the company’s founder and CEO Joe…

We received an invitation to attend Copier Dealers Association’s (CDA’s) 40th Anniversary celebration at the Broadmoor in…

There’s absolutely no question about it: The millennial generation, as well as those on its cusp, are significant forces to be reckoned with. We cannot emphasize…

Across the globe, family businesses remain among the most important economic drivers. According to Global Data Points, they account for more than…

This June marks a truly amazing milestone in the history of Waltz Business Solutions””it’s 125th anniversary in business in the greater Cincinnati area…

A visit with Systel in Fayetteville, North Carolina, reveals that diversification and thinking big have their advantages, especially when starting out in…

She now plays an instrumental role not only with Marco’s internal business operations but also with its robust and aggressive growth, as the company continues…

In 2016, CJ and I began a mission to visit with as many dealers as we could over the course of the following three years. We started with MT Business in Mansfield, Ohio,…

Throughout the rest of the year we’ll be sharing highlights from past issues of The Cannata Report, focusing on the stories, people, and events we were covering at…

As The Cannata Report celebrates its 35th anniversary, we thought it would be a compelling history lesson to celebrate 35 dealers who have made a mark on the…

After arriving in the U.S. from Kuwait at age 18 in 1978, Tarek Hafiz would eventually discover he had a skill for…

This year, The Cannata Report awarded eight Frank awards live and announced four nominees per category beforehand and the night of the event for the first time in an…

  Hosted by The Cannata Report in partnership with AMETEK ESP, presenting sponsor of the Women Influencer franchise and inspiration behind this…

All nominees and winners determined by votes cast in or analysis of data comprised from The Cannata Report’s 2016 Annual Dealer Survey. Winners listed in the order announced live on October 6:

For the first time, we will not pre-announce any award winners prior to our dinner. All winners, as determined by votes cast via our annual dealer survey, will be announced live on October 6th at The Cannata Report 31st Annual Awards & Charities Dinner. This year’s categories and nominee are

All of this year’s “Best Woman Executive” Frank Award nominees come from the industry’s manufacturing segment and include the following: 2015

Back in 1972 when Neil Young sang, “Old man, look at my life, I’m a lot like you were,” he wasn’t singing about young influencers in today’s imaging channel but he could have been…

Working side by side with family members day in and out isn’t a problem at Stone’s Office Equipment, a family-owned dealership in Richmond, Virginia…