{"id":28486,"date":"2018-03-15T06:57:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T13:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=28486"},"modified":"2018-03-15T06:57:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T13:57:34","slug":"visual-edge-technology-inc-acquires-united-business-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2018\/03\/visual-edge-technology-inc-acquires-united-business-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Edge Technology Inc. Acquires United Business Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>North Canton, OH (March 12, 2018)<\/em> \u2014 Visual Edge Technology is expanding its footprint in New England with its most recent acquisition of United Business Machines (UBM) of Londonderry, NH.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old office equipment dealer will resume business as is, only now under the leadership of Visual Edge-owned Axion Business Technologies Inc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy joining forces with Visual Edge, UBM will have full access to an expanded portfolio of managed print, managed network services, document management, and productivity software, allowing them to go deeper and wider into their accounts and truly sell a total-solutions strategy to their customers,\u201d says Robert Ferland, president of Axion Business Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Ferland added, \u201cWith the financial strength of Visual Edge behind both Axion and UBM, this is really our first chance for organic expansion, especially in the northern New England territories of New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UBM will retain all of its employees, and the former owner, Ken Lamalfa, will stay on with UBM as the company\u2019s branch manager.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><strong>About United Business Machines (UBM)<\/strong><br \/>\nNestled between Manchester and Nashua, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubmnh.com\/\">UBM<\/a> is 33-year-old multi-line office equipment dealer of multifunctional copiers, printers, wide format printers, duplicators, and fax machines. An active participant in the community, UBM is known for its superior customer support and service excellence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Visual Edge Technology Inc.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualedgetechnology.com\">Visual Edge Technology<\/a>, a family of office and IT solutions companies, incorporates a strategy of operating through established dealerships across the U.S., focused on providing a broad line of office solutions, including the sale and service of automated multifunction products, wide-format solutions, managed print services, document management software, network management services, and IT solutions. Visual Edge sells products supplied by Konica Minolta, Canon, Xerox, HP, KYOCERA, Sharp, Samsung, Muratec, Okidata, Toshiba and Ricoh. Through its acquisition strategy, Visual Edge will continue to identify successful companies that focus on providing simple solutions to complex challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Canton, OH (March 12, 2018) \u2014 Visual Edge Technology is expanding its footprint in New England with its most recent acquisition of United Business Machines (UBM) of Londonderry, NH. The 33-year-old office equipment dealer will resume business as is, only now under the leadership of Visual Edge-owned Axion Business Technologies Inc. \u201cBy joining forces with Visual Edge, UBM will have full access to an expanded portfolio of managed print, managed network services, document management, and productivity software, allowing them to go deeper and wider into their accounts and truly sell a total-solutions strategy to their customers,\u201d says Robert Ferland, president of Axion Business Technologies. Ferland added, \u201cWith the financial strength of Visual Edge behind both Axion and UBM, this is really our first chance for organic expansion, especially in the northern New England territories of New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont.\u201d UBM will retain all of its employees, and the former owner, Ken Lamalfa, will stay on with UBM as the company\u2019s branch manager. ### About United Business Machines (UBM) Nestled between Manchester and Nashua, UBM is 33-year-old multi-line office equipment dealer of multifunctional copiers, printers, wide format printers, duplicators, and fax machines. An active participant in the community, UBM is known for its superior customer support and service excellence. About Visual Edge Technology Inc. Visual Edge Technology, a family of office and IT solutions companies, incorporates a strategy of operating through established dealerships across the U.S., focused on providing a broad line of office solutions, including the sale and service of automated multifunction products, wide-format solutions, managed print services, document management software, network management services, and IT solutions. Visual Edge sells products supplied by Konica Minolta, Canon, Xerox, HP, KYOCERA, Sharp, Samsung, Muratec, Okidata, Toshiba and Ricoh. Through its acquisition strategy, Visual Edge will continue to identify successful companies that focus on providing simple solutions to complex challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[3348,3390,2549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28487,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486\/revisions\/28487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}