{"id":12738,"date":"2016-10-11T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=12738"},"modified":"2016-10-11T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T07:04:09","slug":"logicom-named-microsoft-oem-and-fpp-for-entire-gulf-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2016\/10\/11\/logicom-named-microsoft-oem-and-fpp-for-entire-gulf-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Logicom named Microsoft OEM and FPP for entire Gulf region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logicom, the regional distributor of technology solutions and services, has\u00a0announced that it has expanded its distribution agreement with Microsoft to include UAE, Kuwait, and Oman, thus covering the entire Gulf region.<\/p>\n<p>Logicom is now the official distributor for Microsoft original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and full packaged product (FPP) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>With this distribution agreement, which was signed on 1<sup>st<\/sup> September 2016, Logicom will be able to offer its customer base full access to the latest Microsoft OEM and FPP software, devices, and services.<\/p>\n<p>Logicom\u2019s agreement with Microsoft has expanded rapidly to include all Gulf countries in under two years, and the company has now added Microsoft-dedicated resources to all its growing local teams.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Irinarchos, General Manager of Logicom UAE &amp; Gulf, said of the agreement: &#8216;We are very pleased to further expand our regional Microsoft Business to include UAE, Kuwait and Oman. Less than a year ago, we began our OEM business in Qatar, quickly followed by an expansion in Bahrain. To be awarded the OEM and FPP distribution to cover the complete Gulf is a significant recognition of the service and value we provide to our ever growing partner network.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to expand our partnership with Logicom in the Gulf region,\u201d said Lance Thorp, Consumer Channels Group Lead at Microsoft. \u201cLogicom has demonstrated a strong commitment towards bringing new business opportunities through excellent logistics, strategic marketing plans and stock availability, increasing Microsoft\u2019s reach to our customers and enabling them to achieve more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logicom, the regional distributor of technology solutions and services, has\u00a0announced that it has expanded its distribution agreement with Microsoft to include UAE, Kuwait, and Oman, thus covering the entire Gulf region. Logicom is now the official distributor for Microsoft original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and full packaged product (FPP) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":12739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[809,332],"tags":[1441,1072,673,162],"class_list":["post-12738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-news","category-software","tag-distributor","tag-gulf","tag-logicom","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}