SYDNEY, Australia, 16 August, 2011– Pitney Bowes Australia today announced it has formed anational distribution alliance with Ingram Micro, significantly increasing the company’s nationwidereach and placing it in a strong position to retain its leading market share in the mailingsolutions market.

The customer communications management provider said the new distribution agreementwould focus initially on selling postage meters, and folding and inserting systems, though theproduct and solutions range would expand in future.

Pitney Bowes said the national distribution agreement signalled the company was keen to formnew agreements and alliances, with the goal of further strengthening the company’s brand andincreasing access to our solutions for more businesses across Australia.

"We are delighted to have secured an agreement with Ingram Micro to distribute Pitney Bowesproducts to its national reseller network," said Pitney Bowes Channel Director Joseph Saleh.

"This partnership with Pitney Bowes will enable us to offer a range of high-performance mailingsolutions to our broad reseller base," says Jenny Southon, Ingram Micro's Director Vantex andVendor Operations. "Pitney Bowes is recognised as a world-leader in this segment of themarket, and we are looking forward to being able to working alongside the Pitney Bowes teamto offer these products to our resellers, and expand Pitney Bowes' reach into the channel."

Ingram Micro's initial focus will be on distributing the Di200 and Di380 folding and insertingsystems and the DM120, DM130 and DM140 series of digital postage meters. These solutionsare ideally suited to the needs of small to mid-sized Australian businesses due to their compactsize and ease of use.

"We have a range of high-quality mailing or solutions, and we expect that the relationship withIngram Micro will evolve to include more of our customer communication management solutionsin the future," said Saleh.

Saleh said Pitney Bowes would continue to remain active in the channel since launching anenhanced reseller program last year. The company will continue to deal directly with large-scalechannel resellers, who are supported by dedicated Pitney Bowes channel managers in eachstate across Australia.

Delivering more than 90 years of innovation, Pitney Bowes provides software, hardware andservices that integrate physical and digital communications channels. Long known for making itscustomers more productive, Pitney Bowes is increasingly helping other companies grow theirbusiness through its advanced suite of customer communications management solutions.Pitney Bowes is a US$5.4 billion company and employs more than 30,000 worldwide. PitneyBowes Australia is a leading customer communications solutions provider with offices aroundAustralia, and is a foundation partner of Planet Ark's Business Recycling initiative.

For more information about Pitney Bowes, its products, services and solutions, visit www.pb.com or visit www.pitneybowes.com.au

As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitabilityopportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourcedlogistics, technical and financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and productaggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, servingmore than 150 countries on six continents with the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of ITproducts and services.
For more information visit www.ingrammicro.com.au