Toshiba Receives Business Technology Association’s Channel’s Choice Award for Superior Performance for the Twelfth Time

Office Technology Dealers Vote Toshiba the Partner of Choice, as Well as the Best Provider for Corporate Support, Distribution, and Inventory

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) today proudly announced that it has been awarded the Business Technology Association’s (BTA) 2011 Channel’s Choice Superior Performance Award as a Primary Product Line Provider for the fifth straight year. This award, the organization’s highest honor, indicates that Toshiba is the partner of choice for independent dealers, above all others. The award is based on completed surveys by nearly 390 office technology dealers from across the country. Toshiba also was honored to again receive Channel’s Choice Awards in three of four key performance categories: Corporate Support, Distribution, and Inventory. The awards were presented at the BTA’s recent Winter Break 2011 event in Orlando, Fla.

“After five consecutive years of winning BTA’s top award, it’s clear that Toshiba is truly dedicated to providing top-notch service, support, products and programs to its dealers, and ultimately, customers.”

“More than anything, we are extremely thankful for the consistent recognition we have received from our independent dealers,” said Mark Mathews, president and chief operating officer (COO), TABS. “The fact that dealers take the time out of their busy day to recognize the hard work and effort of the Toshiba team to create valuable programs, products and processes, is something that we will never take for granted, no matter how many times we win.”

The BTA Channel’s Choice Awards are based on feedback from independent office technology dealers representing all copier/multifunction product (MFP) vendors in the industry, and all regions of the country. Nearly 400 dealers participated in this year’s survey and were asked to rank their primary and secondary vendors in four key performance categories – Corporate Support, Distribution, Product Line, and Inventory. As in 2010, Toshiba almost swept the awards, taking home the top honor, as well as three of the four key performance category awards.

"Congratulations, once again, to Toshiba for going above and beyond in support of BTA dealers,” said Brent Hoskins, executive director, BTA, and editor, Office Technology magazine. “After five consecutive years of winning BTA’s top award, it’s clear that Toshiba is truly dedicated to providing top-notch service, support, products and programs to its dealers, and ultimately, customers.”

About The Business Technology Association

The Business Technology Association is an international organization serving dealers, value-added resellers, systems integrators, manufacturers and distributors in the office technology industry. BTA helps its members profit through a wide variety of services, including free legal counseling, benchmarking studies and reports, the latest news about trend and products in the industry, cutting-edge educational opportunities and hard-hitting publications. Fore more information on BTA, please visit their Web site at www.bta.org or call [phone].

About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc.

Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) is an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, the seventh largest electronics/electrical equipment company in the world. TABS is a leading provider of managed print and professional services (MPS and PS), and manages product planning, marketing, sales, service, support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. MPS and PS are strategic focus areas for the company, which first developed and began marketing the Encompass™ MPS program in 2003.

Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has five divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions Engineering Division; the International Division; and Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS), a wholly-owned subsidiary corporation of TABS, that operates a network of wholly-owned office equipment dealers throughout the United States.

For more information on Toshiba products, programs, solutions and services, please visit www.copiers.toshiba.com.

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