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Konica Minolta rewards partner success at New Direction conference

Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) has recognised the success of partners in its indirect sales channel with a series of awards announced at the recent annual partner conference. At the ‘New Direction’ conference senior managers from channel partners were briefed on Konica Minolta’s business transformation strategy to deliver Optimised Print Services. Channel partners learnt of the raft of support processes Konica Minolta is putting in place to allow them to offer Optimised Print Solutions that promote greater customer intimacy for a stronger supplier-customer relationship.

The top Blue Ribbon Award went to Balreed Digitec. Commenting on the awards, Mark Lloyd, Konica Minolta’s Indirect Sales Director stated, “We are pleased to be able to recognise the outstanding contribution made by all our channel partners in the last financial year. I am delighted that Balreed has been awarded the top accolade, the Blue Ribbon Award, for the second year running. The Blue Ribbon is given to our top dealer in recognition of their outstanding achievement in revenue growth, unit sales and performance against targets. In all these respects Balreed Digitec were our top performer and they thoroughly deserve the Blue Ribbon.”

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1. Konica Minolta Holdings Inc was established in 1936, has 36,000 employees and has global reach across 40 Countries in Europe, UAE, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The global HQ is located in Japan, our European HQ is in Germany and our UK HQ is in Essex.

2. Established in the UK in 1973, Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) trades as the UK HQ and is supported with 15 direct sales and service centres along with 130 independent dealerships.

3. Specialising in the provision of Multi-Functional, Print Production Devices and Optimised Print Solutions, our best in class teams’ offer specialist support, advice and consultancy to the commercial, public and governmental sectors.

4. Our strategy has our customers at its core. With strong and mutually beneficial customer partnerships, our aim is to achieve mutual sustainable growth through technological innovation. We bring flexible solutions that not only meet our customer expectations, but exceed them, time after time. 

5. In an office environment, our range of world beating copy, scan and print technologies are deployed as single and national networked installations, through to full tailored document management and digital imaging solutions. In the commercial print environment our range of modular, award winning production print technologies are scalable and successfully used across the country in a range of environments. For those organisations wishing to outsource the management of their digital imaging, document management and print requirements, we offer a full and bespoke managed print service.