{"id":11332,"date":"2010-02-01T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:09:00","slug":"epson-appoints-general-manager-for-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/11332-epson-appoints-general-manager-for-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Epson appoints general manager for SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Global technology development company Epson today revealed that it plans to expand its operations within South Africa and will be tackling &ldquo;the local market with a renewed vigour in 2010&rdquo;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to recently appointed general manager for South Africa, Kelvin Reynolds &ldquo;Epson started this re-invigoration process in the latter parts of 2009, by introducing an increased focus on offering overall solutions in the business and large format printing market sectors.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;Our consultants and product specialists have been on intensive training courses that have been designed to help them understand the specific needs of our customers in these various vertical sectors &ndash; and to be able to deliver tailored solutions, through our channel partners, that meet the specific requirements of these verticals.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This year, Reynolds added, Epson has increased its headcount locally by approximately 30%, which will enable it to extend its reach into other Sub-Sahara African markets.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;Printing solutions represent a considerable percentage of the overall capital and operational expenditure of any organisation, second only to physical IT equipment,&rdquo; he continued.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;This is why we have made it one of Epson&rsquo;s imperatives to bolster its skills and support offerings &ndash; especially to the corporate sector &ndash; because we believe that with the new range of products that we have on our product roadmap for 2010,&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Epson is going to make a considerable impact in the local printing and projector space.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The company will primarily be targeting the healthcare, education and public sectors within the coming year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company expands headcount by 30%; plans to tackle local market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}