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HP IPG announced plans to reorganize its printer unit. As part of this move,
the company will be reducing its number of global business units from five to
three. The new organizational structure will have three units in place-graphics
solutions, inkjet and web solutions and laserjet and enterprise solutions.
Talking about the reorganization, Ravi Aggarwal, President, Imaging and
Printing Group (IPG), HP India stated, “This move is designed to simplify the
organization's structure to drive business results, accelerate IPG's Print 2.0
strategy and sharpen focus on core business units while lowering costs and
improving customer focus. This re-organization will percolate to India.”
While the graphics solutions business will be led by Michael Hoffmann, Senior
VP, the inkjet and web solutions business will be led by Stephen Nigro, Senior
VP and the laserjet and enterprise solutions business will be looked after by
David Murphy, Senior VP.
This move will also have an impact on the supplies business of the company,
and HP's aftermarket business (both ink and media) will be a part of the inkjet
and web solutions business led by Nigro.
In order to integrate businesses such as Snapfish, LogoWorks, Retail Photo
Printing and Exstream and connect to hardware, supplies and software
initiatives, the consumer and SMB offerings under the web services and software
business, will be incorporated in the inkjet and web solutions business.
Whereas, the enterprise offerings (Exstream Software and Halo) will fall under
the laserjet and enterprise solutions business led by Murphy.
The inkjet and web solutions business will consist of consumer inkjet
hardware, SMB business inkjet hardware; retail publishing solutions, Snapfish,
Logoworks, ink supplies, media and technology platform development.
The laserjet and enterprise solutions business that is responsible for
laserjet solutions (hardware, software and supplies) with focus on the
enterprise segment will consist of laserjet printers and supplies, Edgeline,
scanners, enterprise software solutions (Exstream Software, Web Jetadmin/Output
Server), managed print services (products and solutions) and Halo telepresence. Page(s) 1
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