Toshiba Channel Busters In Noumea

Written by Adam Gosling

Monday, 21 August 2006

Now in its 18th year, TargetBusters is the way laptop vendor Toshiba recognises and rewards its distributors and resellers. More than 100 of Toshiba's channel partners from Australia and New Zealand attend this year's awards ceremony which was conveniently held in Noumea, New Caledonia earlier this week. Themed ‘Moulin Rouge', the awards were granted during the gala awards dinner on Saturday night. As well as the eight partner companies, nine individuals were recognised for outstanding sales achievement and customer service over the last 12 months. Sales Achiever of the Year awards, to Don Bath, Anton Maxwell, Matthew Sachse, Adrian Youl, Mitchell Simpson, Julian Phuaand Vince Eggels. Outstanding Achievement - Retail awards went to Albert Zurzolo and Matt Hayler. Business Partner of the Year awards went to Volante for the Northern Region and Computelec for Southern Region. The Laptop Company (SI) was New Zealand Business Partner of the Year. Dick Smith Australia, and Leading Edge Australia were noted for their Retail Excellence, while Retailer of the Year for ANZ was Harvey Norman Australia. Ingram Micro was named Distributor of the Year and MobilePlus Reseller of Year was Commander. "Our channel partners have yet again been instrumental in helping us remain the most popular mobile computing brand," said Mark Whittard, general manager Toshiba ISD. "It's an exciting time to be in our industry with notebook sales representing the strongest growing category in IT. This result is largely due to the hard work and education undertaken by our channel, and for that, we'd like to say thanks and congratulations," he said. Related news items Toshiba Gets Serious With New Gaming Laptop -27/06/2007 Toshiba Becomes Latest AMD Customer -27/06/2007 New Toshiba Qosmio Slightly Smaller -27/06/2007 Samsung Quits Notebook Business -29/01/2007 Tougher Laptops On The Way -06/12/2006 Newer news items Vodafone Expands Brightpoint Relationship -06/08/2007 Crazy John's To Sell People's Fixed Services -11/07/2007 Intel Makes Good On Whitebook Promise -30/04/2007 BigAir Hopes To Ramp Wireless Sales -30/08/2006 BigAir Signs Broader Deal As Unwired Increases Reach -22/08/2006 Older news items Business Waiting To Be Mobilised Says IDC -09/08/2006 Telstra Snags Good Opportunity -12/07/2006 The Terminator Mandates Total Recall -03/07/2006 Adelaide Airport Installs Wireless -02/05/2006 C2One Goes Way Of The Dinosaur -02/05/2006 Tag This Now: