Systemax North American Technology Products Group Announces Management Appointments
The Systemax North American Technology Products Group, a business unit of Systemax Inc. (NYSE: SYX), which includes the TigerDirect, CompUSA and Circuit City brands, announced today that it has appointed three new executives. Joining the leadership team are Jed Stillman, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Services, Michael Amkreutz, Executive Vice President of Merchandising, and Michael Jones, Chief Information Officer.
David Sprosty, Systemax’s Chief Executive of the North American Technology Products Group, commented, “On behalf of our Board of Directors and employees, I’d like to welcome Jed Stillman, Michael Amkreutz and Michael Jones to Systemax and the North American Technology Products Group (“NATPG”). All are experienced executives and proven leaders with strong backgrounds in their respective fields. They will be tremendous assets to our team as we execute on our goal to improve the experience for our SMB, retail and online customers.”
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TigerDirect and CompUSA to Offer NOOK Simple Touch Reader® and NOOK Color® by Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, in collaboration with TigerDirect and CompUSA, leading multi-channel retailers of computers and electronics (wholly owned subsidiaries of Systemax Inc), announced today they will be bringing the company’s award-winning line of NOOK eReading devices and related accessories to retail stores nationwide including TigerDirect and CompUSA, and online at TigerDirect.com and CompUSA.com, beginning in December. Customers will now have access to a wide array of popular and innovative NOOK devices designed for readers of all ages.
NOOK devices are the perfect choice for anyone who wants access to their favorite reads anywhere they go. Customers seeking a simple, easy-to-use, dedicated reading experience will love the NOOK Simple Touch Reader, an ultra-light, portable 6-inch eReader with the most-advanced E Ink® Pearl display and the longest battery life of any eReader. With a simple tap, it’s intuitive and easy to navigate, shop and read.
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TabletCentral launches at Retail
Tablets, Android, Win7 and WebOS, are coming out nearly every day it seems. With the high level of Android momentum continuing to increase, we are seeing more and more tablet products on the market. With this wide selection and their varying specifications, just like any computer hardware, TigerDirect.com and CompUSA Retail Stores have started to roll out TabletCentral sections to feature the wide selection of Tablets available.
Better than just a bunch of tablets on display, this is a fully Retail 2.0 enabled department which allows you to obtain full product information just by lifting the tablet from the display. Plus, you can get extensive product specifications, read customer reviews, surf the web to obtain even more information or to compare pricing, as well as integrated comparison technology to allow you to compare up to four different tablets side by side.
This new TabletCenter Department will provide shoppers with the same great Retail 2.0 experience as in other departments, but totally tablet-centric!
Check out your local TigerDirect.com or CompUSA Retail Store to see if you have the new TabletCentral and find yourself a great new tablet!
Protect Your PC – As seen on WSVN Miami
TigerDirect’s showing off the latest in protecting your PC on some local television segments across the country, and here is our first clip from WSVJ 6 Miami/Ft. Lauderdale showcasing products from CA, LoJack and PhoneGuard.
Miami Flagler Retail Store Opens in New Location
Today we opened an all new flagship TigerDirect.com retail store at the Mall of Americas on Flagler Street in Miami. While Flagler is the location for the first of all Tiger retail stores, we have opened a bigger TigerDirect (much bigger) store complete with the full power of Retail 2.0 on the opposite side of the corporate offices.
This new location features some new displays that have never been seen in any of our other stores, and innovative TigerDirect features (like retail 2.0) throughout the entire store.
AMD Debuts Retail Display At TigerDirect
Chipmaker AMD has developed a new interactive retail display that will debut this weekend in select TigerDirect stores. The Vision Experience Center (VEC) is a 6-foot-tall visual merchandising display featuring an ATI Eyefinity touchscreen interface and cloud-based services to help customers select the best AMD desktop and notebook components or platforms based on their computing needs rather than on technical specs alone.
By providing crucial product information available online while shopping in-store, the VEC extends TigerDirect’s and sister chain CompUSA’s Internet-based Retail 2.0 store concept, which allows shoppers to access price and product information — and even browse competitors’ Web sites — from in-store display screens adjacent to the product. AMD and TigerDirect will discuss the VEC and the future of Retail 2.0 during a webcast on Saturday, Aug. 28, at 2:00 p.m. EST at www.retail20.com/amd.
Source: TWICE
Systemax Ranked #14 US Cataloger
Systemax has been ranked the 14th largest direct mail/print/cataloger in the United States by MultiChannel Merchant magazine (July/Aug 2010 edition). More importantly, of the top 14, Systemax was one of only a handful which had growth since 2008. Most actually had a decline in previous revenue.
To read the full article from the MultiChannel Merchant magazine, click here.
TigerDirect Retail Store now open in Chicago!
Yep, you heard it right folks, there is an all new TigerDirect.com Retail and Outlet Store located at 2500 North Elston Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Right downtown for your convenience. Best news, this store is unlike any other before: there will be a huge array of liquidation and clearance items at this store all the time plus all of the great products you have come to count on TigerDirect for – at the same prices you will find online at TigerDirect.com.
The store is currently in ‘soft open’ mode and will be having a grand opening celebration shortly, once the store is 100% together and ready for prime time. We are still stocking some shelves and getting used to things, but we didn’t want to make you wait – and simply opened the doors while we get settled in. Plus, the store is fully outfitted with ‘Retail 2.0’ a all-new concept in retailing that brings the convenience of the Internet right to you inside the retail store.
Systemax ranked #45 Healthiest Public Retailer
According to the most recent TWICE magazine, Systemax has been named the #45 “Healthiest” Public retailer, based on such criteria as asset utilization, balance-sheet strength, sound growth and pricing power – as tracked over a five year period.
Systemax at #45 outranks other industry leaders such as hhGregg, PcConnection, PC Mall, Radioshack and Brookstone.
Source: Twice Magazine
Dallas Star-Tribune reports on CompUSA
CompUSA is back — with an Internet-linked, in-store system that gives customers instant product information, including videos, and then allows them to compare prices charged by rivals.
The chain opened a new store in Euless in February and plans another in about a month in Arlington near Interstate 20 and Cooper Street.
It’s been a choppy ride for the 26-year-old consumer electronics retailer. Once known as Software Warehouse, it went public in 1991, acquired Tandy Corp.’s Computer City chain 12 years ago and then took over California-based The Good Guys chain in 2003.
But it struggled to make profits as fierce competition ate into margins. Not even Mexico’s renowned investor Carlos Slim — Forbes magazine’s richest man in the world — could salvage the ailing chain after investing over $3 billion.
Systemax, a publicly traded Long Island-based company that owns TigerDirect.com, an online electronics retailer, bought the CompUSA brand and 16 stores, including ones in Plano and El Paso, in early 2008 from a liquidator. Just the year before, CompUSA had operated 229 outlets nationally and employed 1,500 in North Texas alone.
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