Maxtor and Almasa Distribution have held their first partner excellence awards in Dubai. The company currently holds around 37 percent market share in the Middle East and has overachieved regional sales targets by 20 percent, according to a company press release. Almost a year after the merger between Maxtor and Quantum HDD, this event also celebrated the launch of the new company in the Middle East.
“This event is really a celebration of our success for the first year since the merger”, commented Cagatay Kilic, Maxtor’s area sales manager, Middle East and Turkey. “Many critics said that it would be impossible for us to keep the combined market share after the merger with Quantum, and we actually managed to keep and increase this share. Almasa and their resellers have done an excellent job of raising awareness about the Maxtor brand name in the region, as well as our products and technologies.”
“We are looking forward to a very buoyant 2002,” added Kilic, “In particular we are confident of strong growth in the storage intensive consumer market with our Fast Drives initiative which gives fast file access and optimal multimedia handling capabilities to its drives.”
Maxtor Corporation is an international supplier of information storage solutions. The company has a line of storage products for desktop computers, high-performance Intel-based servers, network attached storage and consumer electronics. — (menareport.com)
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