PRINTITRESELLER.UK 7 Toshiba accelerates cloud innovation Toshiba America Business Solutions has strengthened its cloud portfolio by acquiring Youmebee, Ltd., makers of directprint.io cloud-native print management solutions. The move reinforces Toshiba’s commitment to delivering open, flexible, and secure print infrastructure for today’s hybrid work environments. Beyond serving as a core component of Toshiba’s Elevate Sky print management platform, directprint.io provides a robust standalone SaaS solution for organisations operating across multi-vendor fleets. The acquisition ensures continued investment in the cloud platform’s growth while preserving its independence and vendorneutral approach. To support this vision, Youmebee will remain a standalone company focusing on developing cloud-first, AI-driven print, document and workflow solutions, under the brand name Coreza moving forward. The directprint.io product itself will be rebranded as Coreza Print in the coming months. The acquisition aligns with Toshiba’s successful managed print as a service (MPaaS) strategy, which recognises the realities of multi-vendor environments across enterprise and small-to-medium-size businesses. The directprint.io platform is uniquely capable of supporting this landscape by offering true vendor-agnostic support across all major print brands, cloud-native architecture that eliminates print servers and reduces IT complexity, seamless integration with identity providers, productivity suites, and security frameworks and real-time analytics for usage, cost, and sustainability insights. https://business.toshiba.com Xerox named as a supplier on NHS framework agreement Xerox has been named as a supplier on NHS Shared Business Services’ (NHS SBS) Digital Workplace Solutions 2 Framework Agreement. The framework provides a compliant and efficient route for NHS and wider public sector organisations to procure the latest digital tools and services. As a named supplier, Xerox will provide NHS organisations with access to secure IT hardware, software, and digital services that support modern, connected healthcare environments. These solutions help streamline workflows, strengthen data management, and create efficiencies across NHS operations. The framework also supports the adoption of AI and the IoT to drive greater productivity and smarter use of NHS resources. www.xerox.co.uk Konica Minolta hosts TechGirls event Konica Minolta welcomed Year 8 students from local schools for its annual TechGirls event which took place last month at its Client Engagement Centre (CEC) in Houghton Regis. Building on the success of last year’s Ada Lovelace Day celebration, the 2025 event continued the company’s commitment to increasing female representation in the tech industry and supporting the local community. The initiative is part of its broader diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy, which includes ambitious 2030 targets such as reducing the Gender Pay Gap to zero and achieving gender parity in leadership and recruitment. Marta Moreira Rodriguez, Balance Network Lead said: “Events like TechGirls are vital for breaking down barriers and showing young women that there is a place for them in STEM industries. By connecting students with real role models and hands-on experiences, we’re helping to shape a more inclusive future for technology.” www.konicaminolta.co.uk Sharp Europe unveils unified brand proposition Sharp Europe has announced the launch of its ‘One Sharp’ unified brand proposition. This new proposition marks a progressive new era of client-centric IT services, managed print, audio visual and workplace design solutions, supported by a portfolio of offerings across AI, business applications, cyber security and digital transformation, strengthened by the integration of managed services provider ITpoint and Apsia, an expert in cloud business applications integration. The launch also brings Sharp Display Solutions Europe into the Sharp Electronics Europe portfolio, allowing the brand to go-tomarket with a vibrant and hyper-connected technology proposition. Joe Tomota, President at Sharp Europe, said: “This business consolidation and brand repositioning is emblematic of where we’re going next. Bringing together Sharp’s expertise in IT services, document and printing services, audio visual technology, and workplace solutions under a single, cohesive identity.” Stuart Sykes, Chief Executive Officer of Sharp UK, added: “This brand repositioning and business consolidation reinforces our leadership in the UK technology market but also acts as a powerful catalyst, empowering our expert teams to connect people and technology more effectively than ever before through our comprehensive B2B solution offering.” www.sharp.eu BULLETIN Kyocera appointed to CCS framework Kyocera Document Solutions UK has been renamed as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) RM6361 framework which gives public sector buyers access to a wide range of multifunctional devices, software and services, delivered either through direct supply or managed service agreements. RM6361 is the UK’s largest public sector framework for print, managed print services and document solutions. It provides a streamlined route to purchase technology in line with government procurement and sustainability policies to deliver value for money and support environmental goals across the public sector estate in pursuit of net zero. Group Sales Director Steve Doust said: “The new CCS RM6361 framework is significant for Kyocera. It allows us to expand our support beyond the reliable, innovative and sustainable print and document solutions for which we are known in the public sector.” www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.uk Steve Doust Joe Tomota
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