Hagan Business Machines of Meadville Earns New Dealer Award for

Demonstrating Market Leadership and Creating Exceptional Toshiba

Customer Awareness

IRVINE, Calif.–(EMWNews)–In an effort to recognize outstanding service, support and market

achievement by the dealer community, Toshiba America Business Solutions

Inc. (TABS) announced today that Pennsylvania-based Hagan Business

Machines of Meadville is the first to earn the Toshiba Certified

Innovation Dealer Award. This newly-created annual program is designed

to single out exceptional Toshiba authorized dealers who demonstrate

innovation and market leadership by implementing the full complement of

Toshiba’s marketing, sales and service

programs.

“Toshiba is very pleased to name Hagan

Business Machines of Meadville as our first Toshiba Certified Innovation

Dealer Award recipient, and we congratulate Jay Verno, Craig Guy and

their dedicated staff in their continued efforts in championing the

Toshiba brand,” said Kay Fernandez, vice

president, Marketing, TABS. “The Toshiba

Certified Innovation Dealer designation and award is our way to publicly

distinguish those members of our national authorized dealer community

that go above and beyond in promoting and supporting Toshiba’s

best-in-class services, products and solutions to their end customers.

Congratulations, Hagan Business Machines of Meadville, on this well

deserved award.”

First announced at the 2008 Toshiba National Dealer Meeting, the Toshiba

Certified Innovation Dealer Award program evaluates authorized Toshiba

dealers on their active use of Toshiba’s full

array of marketing, sales and service programs. To qualify as a Toshiba

Certified Innovation Dealer, organizations must be nominated by Toshiba

district sales managers and regional sales directors, and are judged on

13 separate criteria in three categories: 1) Innovation in Customer

Service; 2) Innovation in Marketing; and 3) Innovation in Market

Achievement. Top scoring dealerships are awarded the Toshiba Certified

Innovation Dealer designation, an Innovation Dealer Award trophy, and

other elite benefits.

“As an independent dealer, it’s

very important that you choose a partner that will not only support you

with quality products and solutions, but also support your sales and

marketing initiatives as well, and Toshiba is among the best at

understanding the personalized market approach we employ,”

said Jay Verno, co-owner, Hagan Business Machines of Meadville. “Having

been an authorized Toshiba dealer for more than 14 years, Hagan Business

Machines of Meadville is especially honored to be named the first-ever

Toshiba Certified Innovation Dealer. Toshiba has been a great partner to

work with, and their long history of leading innovation helps us meet

the unique daily demands and needs of our customers.”

About Hagan Business Machines

Winner of the 2007 Dealer of the Year Award from the Business Technology

Association (BTA), Hagan Business Machines was founded in 1950 by Paul

Hagan as a typewriter sales and service business. The Pennsylvania-based

company later expanded into other product lines which included

duplicating machines, calculators and eventually copy machines. Today,

Hagan offers state-of-the-art products for copying, printing, scanning

and faxing along with reconditioned equipment. The Meadville facility

has been locally owned and operated by Jay Verno and Craig Guy since

1992, and Hagan Business Machines of Butler was opened in 1998.

Hagan Business Machines provides quality products and reliable service

to all of Crawford, Mercer, Venango, Butler, Lawrence, Beaver and

Armstrong counties. For more information about Hagan Business Machines,

please visit our website at: http://www.hagan1.com/.

About Toshiba America Business

Solutions Inc.

Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages product planning,

marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers,

facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and

toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin

America, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has

five divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products

Division; the Document Solutions Engineering Division; the International

Division; and TOPAC U.S.A., Inc., dba Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS),

a wholly-owned subsidiary corporation of TABS, that operates a network

of wholly-owned office equipment dealers throughout the United States.

Named the most favored manufacturer nine times by the Business

Technology Association (BTA), Toshiba’s

entire product line, customer support and marketing distribution

policies are markers for the industry. Among the many other awards

garnered in recent years, Toshiba was named the “Manufacturer

of the Year” seven times by Marketing

Research Consultants (MRC), and has twice been named to the CIO

100 for being among the top 100 “bold”

(2005) and “agile”

(2004) companies in the world.

TABS is an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, the

seventh largest electronics/electrical equipment company and the world’s

91st largest company in terms of sales. Ranked by Fortune

magazine as the eighth Most Admired Electronics Company in the World,

Toshiba Corporation is a world leader in high technology products with

more than 300 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Fiscal year

revenue in 2007 was approximately $76.6 billion.

For more information on Toshiba copiers, facsimiles, multifunction

printing products, network controllers or toner products, or for a

dealer in your area, call (800)-GO-TOSHIBA or visit the TABS Web site at www.copiers.toshiba.com.

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