The Utility Company™ Announces Latest Utility Service Provider Franchise in the North Bay and Timmins Regions of Ontario
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Leading Office Equipment Dealer, Tranter Office Plus, Adds Recurring Technology Services to Existing Business
April 19 , 2007, Ottawa, Canada -The Utility Company, the leading provider of information technology (IT) as a utility to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), today announced its latest Utility Service Provider franchise in the North Bay and Timmins region of Ontario. Joe Tranter, the owner of Tranter Office Plus, purchased the rights to Utility Northern Ontario.
The Utility Company understands the need for independent office equipment dealers to add technology services as part of their offering in today’s highly competitive market. To expand their service business, office equipment dealers like Tranter are seeing the need to manage the entire customer infrastructure to provide more value to organizations that are becoming increasingly more reliant on technology. In fact, in many cases, the dealers are already being asked to “connect their customer’s office” as the majority of today’s copier and printers are networked.
Already a successful name in Northern Ontario over the past ten years, Tranter recently diversified and started bringing on IT services with the addition of his business partner Chris Guertin. “By adding Chris and starting to offer IT services, we saw the importance of ‘owning the network’ from our customers’ perspective”, stated Joe Tranter. “That being said, our service revenues were coming in on a project or break-fix basis - not in a recurring model. We felt the most straight-forward path to transitioning to recurring revenue model and offer a more predictable and reliable level of service to our customers was by joining forces with The Utility Company. It was a natural fit and was much simpler then the ‘do-it-yourself’ approach to add even a fraction of the Connected Office™ services on our own. Now we can act as the single point of contact for all of our customers’ technology needs.”
The Utility Company partners with SMB service organizations, like office equipment dealers, to deliver information technology as a utility providing the required hardware, software and service for a monthly fee per user. The partnership allows office equipment dealers to provide their customers a 360 degree view on spending and utilization in the five major areas of technology: network/desktop, business applications, Web/Internet, copier/printer and telecommunications. We then tailor a technology service plan specific to the SMB’s requirements and budget in a monthly user-based model.
The Utility Business System allows office equipment dealers to do this by being able to leverage their existing infrastructures - there is no need for them to make a large investment in additional employees, technology or training. Utility has a complete business system to separate our service providers from the competition to allow them to become the single point of contact for technology that their customers are already requesting.
“As we continue to build out our operations across North America it is important for us to identify those SMB service organizations that compliment our business and brand in each particular market,” stated Mark Scott, President of The Utility Company. “Office equipment dealers are now faced with the challenge of adding technology services to their business to remain competitive in the marketplace. We provide a means for forward-thinking organizations like Tranter to achieve that goal and better serve their customers with a complete consumption-based technology portfolio from one source.”
Connected Office is now available in the North Bay and Timmins regions by calling 1-866-My-Utility. Before you spend another cent on technology take our free Utility Meter Reading business-technology assessment online at www.theutilitycompany.com.
Tranter Office Plus and The Utility Company would like to invite area businesses and customers to the North Bay & District Chamber of Commerce’s Business Networking Social to be held on May 24th from 3-8 pm at the Clarion Resort Pinewood Park (www.clarionresortpinewoodpark.com). For more information please contact Matt Minor at 705-495-2002.
About The Utility Company™
The Utility Company is the leading provider of information technology as a utility to small and medium-sized businesses, delivering the required hardware, software and service for a monthly fee per user. Our Connected Office™ service suite empowers people to properly leverage technology to operate, communicate and manage their business more effectively to increase productivity, performance and ultimately profit. Our customers are supported by the Utility Service Network delivering on-site service and business-technology consulting across North America – technology sales, professionals and service organizations can review the Beyond Managed Services™ franchise opportunity on our website. Learn how to make technology work for your business today at www.theutilitycompany.com.
For more information contact:
Aaron Bradley
Marketing Manager
1-866-My-Utility ext.7675
abradley@theutilitycompany.com
