Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. Names First Toshiba Certified Innovation...

Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. Names First Toshiba Certified Innovation Dealer Award Winner

Hagan Business Machines of Meadville Earns New Dealer Award for
Demonstrating Market Leadership and Creating Exceptional Toshiba
Customer Awareness
IRVINE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
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.

PainePR
Darek Connole, 949-809-6734
dconnole@painepr.com
or
Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc.
Sally Anderson, 949-462-6091
sally.anderson@tabs.toshiba.com

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