Business Services Industry
After Takeover, Billerica, Mass., IT Firm Shifts to Service-Oriented Strategy.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
By Frank Tutalo, The Sun, Lowell, Mass. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 31--BILLERICA, Mass.--The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Getronics NV, a Netherlands-based IT services company which bought Wang Global four years ago, has been honing in on both new and existing customers as of late. At the same time, some of Getronics' practices have brought it back to its local roots.
The North American head...uarters in Billerica are led by a longtime Wang employee who cut his teeth at Dr. An Wang's first manufacturing site, the Tewksbury facility, more than 20 years ago -- Kevin T. Roche. And, more than half of the 531 employees in Billerica and Tewksbury, about 280 workers, have been with Wang and Getronics for...
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