Hanging up your boots

Hannah Breeze
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Many of the UK's biggest resellers and channel firms were born at the same time, meaning in the next few years, their founders may be considering retirement. Hannah Breeze investigates what impact this will have on their businesses

The late 70s and 80s was boom time for the channel - with many of today's industry giants - such as SCC, Comptacenter, Misco and XMA opening their doors for the first time, along with countless sma...

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