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			<title>Almasa cements acquisition of rival distributor</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Almasa IT Distribution has put out a statement confirming the takeover of Dubai-based retail distributor Delta Business Products]]></description>
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			<title>Almasa and Delta expected to confirm tie-up</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Delta and Almasa expected to announce co-operation agreement next week]]></description>
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			<title>What now for distribution?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Channel Middle East called senior executives from ten companies featured in last issue’s Power List and asked: Will the Middle East distribution sector be able to survive the current financial climate?]]></description>
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			<title>Sheu rebuffs departure talk</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Frank Sheu to stay in CEO post at Almasa]]></description>
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			<title>Basheer out as Almasa restructures in Saudi</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Almasa to replace country managers for Saudi and Kuwait to go with category manager approach]]></description>
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			<title>Almasa fired up by new logistics hub</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Company starts operations of its new 17,000 square metre warehousing hub in Jebel Ali next month]]></description>
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			<title>Juniper and Almasa terminate partnership</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Both parties agree to discontinue Middle East distribution relationship]]></description>
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			<title>Disties axed in wake of USR Middle East office closure</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[US Robotics has split with two of its Middle East distributors in a radical channel overhaul just weeks after closing its Dubai office.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Almasa names new head of networking business</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pradeep Angeveetil moves from Comguard to take on Almasa's networking business]]></description>
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			<title>The components game</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  The wholesale trading and supply of PC components still remains an enduring and very much active feature of a Dubai channel that serves the entire MEA region - but for how much longer? Channel Middle East editor Andrew Seymour investigates the state of the components channel and the forces shaping its development.]]></description>
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			<title>Almasa highlighting capabilities of new Saudi subsidiary</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Almasa IT Distribution showcases new KSA channel subsidiary at Gitex Saudi Arabia  ]]></description>
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			<title>AMD gives Middle East first look at triple core CPUs</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[AMD will present the first regional live demonstration of its new triple core Phenom processors at Saudi Gitex  ]]></description>
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			<title>Almasa briefs Kuwaiti resellers on IPG programmes</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Almasa gives IT sellers in Kuwait rundown of HP's latest channel programmes]]></description>
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			<title>Menezes renews acquaintances with Almasa</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Former Samsung printer exec rejoins distribution house]]></description>
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			<title>Office in a box</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Momenta has launched `Office in a Box', an innovative product, based on the concept of HaaS (Hardware as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) that aims to meet all the IT infrastructure requirements of its clients as a pre-built package.]]></description>
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			<title>Almasa and ViewSonic join up</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ViewSonic, a provider of visual display products, has announced the appointment of Almasa IT Distribution as a distributor of its products.]]></description>
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			<title>Almasa drafted in as Seagate splits from Mindware</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Hard drive vendor Seagate has split with distributor Mindware and appointed Almasa as a replacement in what represents the third major change to its Middle East line-up since the company revealed its post-Maxtor distribution strategy last September.   ]]></description>
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			<title>Market movers </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  As the middlemen in the IT supply chain process, the ability to move products from A to B quickly and effectively remains a yardstick by which distribution companies are measured. Yet as distributors across the region will testify, implementing a successful logistics strategy is fraught with challenges.   ]]></description>
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			<title>Vendors raise Saudi stakes</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Race to grab a piece of the US$3 billion-a-year Saudi market sees leading vendors announce a slew of distribution agreements to increase coverage in the Kingdom.]]></description>
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			<title>En route to Riyadh</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Saudi Arabia has rapidly emerged as the market that no vendor or distributor with genuine pan-regional ambition can afford to ignore. Its strategic importance to the wider Middle East channel has grown enormously in recent years, prompting an unprecedented level of domestic and foreign investment that has made the Kingdom a compelling arena to operate. As the market shapes up for another year of strong development in 2007, Channel Middle East asks what it takes to succeed in Saudi.   ]]></description>
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			<title>Ahmed launches new distributor</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The former sales and marketing director of Almasa IT Distribution, Parvez Ahmed, has launched his own distribution company named Active IT Distribution.]]></description>
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			<title>Almasa plots to tighten grip on market with in-country offices</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IT distribution powerhouse outlines plans to take its distribution model to the next level by appointing regional manager to launch local subsidiaries in Egypt and Saudi Arabia]]></description>
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			<title>GFI and Almasa lure resellers with free software promotion</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Almasa IT Distribution has kicked off its recent distribution agreement with GFI Software by offering resellers the opportunity to pick up some free products during the fourth quarter]]></description>
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			<title>Distributors</title>
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			<title>Making ‘IT’ Move</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As competition increases between IT distributors in the Middle East, efficient supply chain management could make the difference between a profit and a loss, reports Stuart Wilson.]]></description>
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			<title>Seagate shuts Maxtor Dubai office</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Firm also announces changes to channel structure in region ]]></description>
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