RM exits PC builder market and plans 300 UK job cuts

Hannah Breeze
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Specialist education VAR will instead concentrate on software and services

Education reseller RM has announced plans to cut its UK headcount by 300 and to stop building PCs in an effort to improve profitability in its Education Technology (ET) business. The firm announ...

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