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We have established a multi-faceted direct marketing system to business customers, consisting primarily of our relationship marketers, catalog
mailings and proprietary internet websites, the combination of which is designed to maximize sales. Our relationship marketers focus their efforts on
our business customers by establishing a personal relationship between such customers and a Systemax account manager. The goal of the relationship
marketing sales force is to increase the purchasing productivity of current customers and to actively solicit newly targeted prospects to become
customers. With access to the records we maintain, our relationship marketers are prompted with product suggestions to expand customer order values.
In certain countries, we also have the ability to provide such customers with electronic data interchange (“EDI”) ordering and customized billing
services, customer savings reports and stocking of specialty items specifically requested by these customers. Our relationship marketers’ efforts are
supported by frequent catalog mailings and e-mail campaigns, both of which are designed to generate inbound telephone sales, and our interactive
websites, which allow customers to purchase products directly over the internet. We believe that the integration of our multiple marketing methods
enables us to more thoroughly penetrate our business, educational and government customer base. We believe increased internet exposure leads to
more internet-related sales and also generates more inbound telephone sales; just as we believe catalog mailings and email campaigns which feature
our websites results in greater internet-related sales.
E
-commerce
The worldwide growth in active internet users has made e-commerce a significant opportunity for sales growth.
The increase in our internet-related sales enables us to leverage our advertising spending. We currently operate multiple e-commerce sites, including:
We are continually upgrading the capabilities and performance of these websites. Our internet sites feature on-line catalogs of hundreds of thousands
of products, allowing us to offer a wider variety of computer and industrial products than our printed catalogs. Our customers have around-the-clock,
on-line access to purchase products and we have the ability to create targeted promotions for our customers’ interests. Many of our internet sites also
permit customers to purchase “build to order” PCs configured to their own specifications.
In addition to our own e-commerce websites, we have partnering agreements with several of the largest internet shopping and search engine providers
who feature our products on their websites or provide “click-throughs” from their sites directly to ours. These arrangements allow us to expand our
customer base at an economical cost.
Catalogs
We currently produce a total of 15 full-line or direct mail publications in North America and Europe under distinct titles. Our portfolio of catalogs
includes such established brand names as TigerDirect.com™, Global Computer Supplies™, TigerDirect.ca™, Misco®, Global Industrial™, Nexel™
and Inmac WStore®. We mail catalogs to both businesses and individual consumers. In the case of business mailings, we mail our catalogs to many
individuals at a single business location, providing us with multiple points-of-contact. Our in-house staff designs all of our catalogs, which reduces
overall catalog expense and shortens catalog production time. Our catalogs are printed by third parties under fixed pricing arrangements. The
commonality of certain core pages of our catalogs also allows for economies of scale in catalog production.
Continuing our focus on internet advertising, the distribution of our catalogs decreased to 30.7 million in 2011, which was 6.7% less than in the prior
year. In 2011, we mailed approximately 24.2 million catalogs in North America, a 6.4% decrease from last year and approximately 6.5 million catalogs
in Europe, or 7.5% fewer than mailed in 2010.
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North America
Europe
www.tigerdirect.com
www.misco.co.uk
www.compusa.com
www.misco.de
www.circuitcity.com
www.misco.fr
www.compusagoved.com
www.misco.nl
www.compusabusiness.com
www.misco.it
www.tigerdirect.ca
www.misco.es
www.infotelusa.com
www.misco.se
www.globalcomputer.com
www.misco.at
www.globalgoved.com
www.misco.ch
www.systemaxpc.com
www.misco.be
www.globalindustrial.com
www.misco.ie
www.globalindustrial.ca
www.wstore.co.uk
www.inmac
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wstore.com
www.dealopro.com
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