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Rumor verified w/email from HQ. Also all Non-Sales will be asked to take unpaid five-day furlough. Not verified but heard reliably is RIF of 25% Production Print Sales Reps and 500 Gen'l Line Salesforce. This probably just make the IKON/Ricoh marriage easier although it also feed the ranks of Canon and dealers if they are looking at quality rather than quantity to shore-up their ranks.
The inmates continue to run the asylum at Ricoh, Direct (IKON & RBS) is not profitable, Dealers are being squeezed instead of hugged, and general morale is at an all-time low over in HQ. Moreover, you now see talented executives, such as Ron Potesky, jumping ship to find safe harbor. If the axe must fall, I simply hope the correct heads get chopped (which has not happened over the past 6 months).
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Also all Non-Sales will be asked to take unpaid five-day furlough.



I have heard that this is also true, but all of the will make Ricoh leaner and meaner, there are those that think Ricoh is on the downside, however thier equipment has never been better and they are hedging the future with hardware.

Let's see when was the last time you saw some like Quanp from the likes of Sharp, Canon, Xerox or KonicaMinolta?

Do any of these companies have anything closely related to Document Mall?

I could go on and on, but I've got to finishing posting items on other boards.

Cheers!
UPDATE: FRIDAY 9/25/09

IKON employees are not subject to the 'mandatory' 5 Day furlough, just the employees on the Ricoh side.

An announcement has also been made in regard to Ricoh's pension, wherein all activity will be ceased. However, any changes to the Ricoh pension do not apply to IKON employees.

As you could imagine, the Ricoh employees are not happy.
In other news, Matt Espe (IKON) will be taking control of Ricoh, as President and CEO. I guess whoever said that IKON would begin to swallow Ricoh, was indeed correct. I once joked (April Fool's) that they were putting up an IKON sign at Ricoh HQ in NJ and taking down the Ricoh sign. They may not go so far as to make that cosmetic change, but the poloitcal change has just set sail. What will the Independent Rioch / Savin / Lanier Dealers think about this change? Time will tell.
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Originally posted by Art Post:
Was told last week by a Ricoh employee that Ricoh will be offering the InfoPrint (Lexmark) A4 machines soon.


I heard this rumor as well and confirmed it with my Lexmark DSM. He said, however, that the Ricoh-branded products will be somewhat stripped down and will not have some of the Lexmark solutions that are available.
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Originally posted by M138:
I wonder if that will work with reynolds and reynolds. Those bastards changed their print stream to only work with lexmark.


Reply from my Lexmark DSM regaring whether the BSD models are compatible with Reynolds & Reynolds and whether or not there would be embedded connectors available for RR:

"- There should be no compatibility issues with any of the BSD models
connecting to the R&R system. Their print streams are standard PCL.

- We have never done any work with any of the BSD apps and the R&R system.
While we have made numerous proposals to them over the years regarding a
variety of workflow solutions with MFP's, they have never moved forward
with them. I wish I could provide some helpful insight on this one, but
we really don't have any to offer."
there is something not standard about that stream.I've tried it before w/ RPCS, PCL/Universal Print Driver, PostScript and all were complete failures. I put in another box w/ emulated postscript and had some better results but still the output wasn't right and the trays wouldn't switch.. had an SE d/l print streams and send them up the line, on and on.. The thing that is really frustrating about it is to put yourself in the customer's shoes.. they are being pushed around pretty hard right now by auto mfg's and paying thru the nose already to either R&R or ADP and now R&R is further tightening the noose
Two guys I know were let go in marketing. I think the total number was 50 or 60 from across the US, however keep in mind that Ikon, and Infoprint are slowing being merged in.

Heard this today that a RBS branch is closing and it will be replaced with an IKON branch......CRAZY huh?
Who posted this last September 2009:

"In other news, Matt Espe (IKON) will be taking control of Ricoh, as President and CEO. I guess whoever said that IKON would begin to swallow Ricoh, was indeed correct. I once joked (April Fool's) that they were putting up an IKON sign at Ricoh HQ in NJ and taking down the Ricoh sign. They may not go so far as to make that cosmetic change, but the poloitcal change has just set sail. What will the Independent Rioch / Savin / Lanier Dealers think about this change? Time will tell."

The Ricoh e-mail went out at 8:02 AM today.
confirmed MATT Espe is now CEO of Ricoh Americas Corp, thus having Control of Ricoh Americas which includes Ricoh Canada and LAD (Latin American Division), Martin Brodigan is now CFO of Ricoh Americas and Jeff Hicklin (former IKON) is now President of Ricoh US!

Ricoh also created Ricoh Americas Holding Company which incororates all od the above or so I'm told!
I think this serves as a wake up call to all RFG (Ricoh / Savin / Lanier) Independent Dealers. The 'Dealer Talking Points' suggest that the new leadership structure will continue to provide strong support for the Dealer community. Utilizing the experiences and expertise accumulated thus far by RBS and IKON, the new integrated management team will minimize conflict in the marketplace.

By the way, Kiyo Shimuzu will continue to lead Ricoh’s U.S. Dealer channel, and the current RVPs will also remain the same. So, anyone hoping that The Sheriff and the Deputy would slide into new roles at the top will be disappointed.

So, who's ready to call the new IKON guys (I mean Ricoh senior management) for help?
I heard this the other day at the AIIM/OnDemand Show in Phili, by a former Ricoh employee. Ricoh Americas Corp which is headquartered in West Caldwell will be moving to Malvern, PA!!!!!

Isaid no, no,......can't be...however reasoning was Ricoh Americas is out of space in NJ, operating inb three seperate building I beleive. Senior reps are from the Malvern area, and the Malvern facility is huge!!

I still don't beleive it,however as we've stated he, ya never know!
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Ricoh Americas is out of space in NJ, operating inb three seperate building I beleive


This is very true, even though recent layoffs have freed up some space in the NJ buildings. Yet, with the IKON PA Army, they could never just utilize those three NJ buildings when IKON is integrated. I suspected this and do believe the 'rumor.' A lot of the rumors on this thread have come to fruition.
Ricoh A4 devices to hit market at the end of this year. Heard theat they are true MFP's and not combined printing and scanner. New engine design and corp is worried they'll damage A3 sales.

I made a comment that what's the big deal about hurting A3 sales, since all of the money is in the consumables? Seems now there is quite a bit of profit in the A3 devices as I'm told.

BTW new wide format to replaced the aged W3600 has been pushed back to November.
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Originally posted by GMAN:
Ricoh (Rikon) will keep the two Headquarter locations (West Caldwell, NJ and Malvern, PA).

The Savin or Lanier brand will go away on or around 3/31/11.


Will be interesting to see how that affects the local dealers who carry Savin or Lanier???
Actually I meant the rumor that the Savin and Lanier labels would be absorbed by the Ricoh label.

The article you referenced is about Ikon being absorbed by Ricoh in Canada only.

I am with a Savin dealer and have heard they will keep the name going forward, but you never know, that is why I want to find out if this rumor is founded in anything definite?
It was announced on Friday (10/1/10) that IKON will fold into RBS and that the IKON name will be eliminated, with additional layoffs on the horizon. This could be the first in a series of moves to place an even heavier focus on Direct operations, which could be followed by the Lanier or Savin brand also being eliminated by 4/1/11. Has anyone else heard that the IKON name is being eliminated and RBS will be the sole 'Direct' channel?
This makes sense.

When Ricoh Canada announced that it had integrated of all of IKON Canada's assets and liabilities in August, Ricoh Canada said that it was the first step in a worldwide integration of the IKON channel and the IKON brand, so the US is a logical next step.

I can't say if the rumors regarding the integration of the Savin and/or Lanier brands , but from a supply chain perspective, it makes more sense to me to only operate and supply on brand.

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