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Rumors that Toshiba is considering selling Toshiba America Business Solutions or Toshiba Business Solutions have circulated for some time. Although TABS and many of Toshiba's other business units (specifically memory/semiconductor) have struggled in recent years, Toshiba has consistently denied that it plans to sell its copier business. Toshiba distributed a letter to its dealers and direct sales force in February, 2009 maintaining that, despite recent rumors, it has no plans to sell its copier business or direct sales operations. Additionally, TABS's COO began each of the company's July, 2009 regional dealer meetings with a promise that it does not plan to exit the copier business.

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Not sure what is Toshiba's most significant asset... My guess is TBS, since direct presence is a hot commodity. There is not much that Toshiba does on the hardware side that the other MFRs cannot do. eBridge is cool, but most MFRs have their platforms covered. Toshiba has some high-speed Color MFPs, but most MFRs have that covered too. Any purchase from a major MFR would just be a direct presence grab, unless a printer manufacturer or lower tier copier maker (Kyocera?) purchased Toshiba. Then the acquisition would provide both hardware and direct presence.


That said, there are certainly several industry players that would benefit from acquiring TBS' channel presence or adding TABS' product portfolio and the fact that this rumor continues to surface suggests that deals may have been proposed or discussed. Canon was rumored to be eyeing Toshiba in August, but I think they made a better move with Oce.

It should also be noted that there has been some notable adjustments within TBS during the last year that suggests that Toshiba was looking to reduce costs within its direct sales business. Toshiba thinned-out the executive ranks of TBS in April and now regional sales and service execs will report directly to TABS COO, instead of TBS managment. Toshiba's dealer channel chief also moved to Konica Minolta Business Solution at the end of the 2008. On the other hand, they did just add a Operations VP, so that does not seem to be a move that a for-sale company would make.
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The e451c is a great copier with good reliabilty.

Toshiba TEC (TTEC), a subsiduary of Toshiba Corp., is responsible for manufacturing Copiers/POS/Thermal Label Printers. Copier production left Toshiba Corp many years ago. TTEC and copiers were profitable in its last publicly released financial statements April 2009.

Copiers make up around 55% of TTECs business. TTEC is unlikely to go away.

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