MicroWarehouse
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Micro Warehouse Inc, stylised as MicroWarehouse and MicroWAREHOUSE, was a mail order seller of computer hardware.
By 2000, Micro Warehouse was the leading direct marketer and catalogue retailer of personal computer products, with worldwide sales of $2.6 billion. At the height of their industry dominance,[when?] Micro Warehouse had 3,500 employees in thirteen different countries.
MicroWarehouse owned and operated the domain names Inmac.co.uk, MacWarehouse.co.uk and MicroWarehouse.co.uk. All three were online, web based, computer hardware and software retailers.
History
The company was originally co founded by Peter Godfrey, Felix Dennis and Bob Bartner in 1987, and was based in South Norwalk, Connecticut. After an initial public offering on December 10, 1992, the company paved the way for a variety of competitors. In the 1990s, Micro Warehouse acquired a large number of similar companies in Europe.
Companies were acquired in the United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands, Sweden and Finland. Inmac was also purchased, raising European sales to over $700 million. After growing to become the fifth largest catalogue company in the world and a dominant re seller for Apple, Microsoft, and many other hardware manufacturers and software publishers, a class action lawsuit distracted senior management for several years.
The company sold its North American operations to
MicroWarehouse, along with Equanet and MacWarehouse are the three brands owned by
MacWarehouse closure
In June 2012, the MacWarehouse website was replaced by a simple banner that redirected you to the website for PC World Business.[4]
References
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- ^ "CUSTOMIZED QUERIES & OUTPUTS". Bankruptcydata.com. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ^ "PC World Business - Taking Care of Your Business". Archived from the original on 2006-12-12. Retrieved 2006-11-15.
- ^ "MacWarehouse". 15 April 2012. Archived from the original on 15 February 1998. Retrieved 21 May 2019.