Office equipment
pp. 63-64 · Read in the full issue
Keen market in Islands for Office equipment
Three international companies eenly interested in Island markets 3r office equipment are Addresso raph Multigraph, Kalamazoo Busi ess Systems and Twinlock Australia.
Each of the three are known [ready for their products, particu irly in the larger centres such as iji. New Caledonia and Papua New ruinea.
Addressograph Multigraph, for ne, considers the rate of growth in ffice equipment buying in the lands as greater than anywhere se in the world.
Mr Tony Arnouts, general man ner for AM in the Far East and acific areas, mentions phototype :tters in PNG, automatic Multilith aplicators in Nauru and the latest iazo products in Fiji.
He says the major reasons for this owth are constant rises in labour
costs and the need for automation necessary to combat high costs, Addressograph Multigraph is ex panding its operations in the Asia- Pacific area. Pacific countries ser viced either with a subsidary office or dealerships include: New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and New Cale donia.
Papua New Guinea is pushing ahead with many new AM systems installations in both government and the private sector.
Kalamazoo (Aust) Ltd is Austra lian owned and based in the Sydney suburb of Lane Cove. Its area of in fluence extends beyond Australia, encompassing the numerous islands of the South Pacific Region, Kala mazoo claims.
The company specialises in stan dard systems for the basic account ing records such as cash receipts, cash payments, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, stock con trol, job costing, plant, staff, etc.
In addition, systems are also available for purchases control, share registry records, wall charting, strip indexing, cheque protection, etc.
The tremendous growth that has taken place in the South Pacific Islands in the post-war years has
created an important market for Kalamazoo products.
Kalamazoo representatives make regular trips to the area, servicing and instructing staff in the operation of the systems sold on the previous trip.
It is only possible for the Kala mazoo representatives to visit the major areas so that transactions with businesses in isolated locations are handled by correspondence in the same way as transactions with busi nesses in the remote areas of out back Australia where distance makes personal contact unecon omical.
In these cases, instruction book lets, written in simple terms, accom pany the principal accounting systems, so that by following the routines and procedures enumerated, the recipient can understand and operate the systems efficiently des pite the lack of personal service.
The Kalamazoo organisation is most optimistic concerning the growth potential of the area.
Twinlock Australia Limited has introduced a low-cost archival stor age system which saves time and space in dead-file storage.
The system consists of a wire reinforced plastic clip and a strong.
cardboard case—all called the D clip system. The system retails at less than 70 cents.
D-clip has been designed to aid all types of file storage and is already widely used throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, South Africa and Japan.
A new loose-leaf flexible system to assist bookkeeping and analysis
has also become available with Twin lock Variform.
It is a lightweight working account book in loose-leaf concept introduced by Twinlock Australia Limited. All rulings are international metric depth in A 4 size.
The system avoids the waste of unused pages and the excessive stor age of fast-bound books.