Merisel Offers Financing Options

Electronic News, Jan 11, 1999 by Bernard Levine, Heidi Elliott, Ann Steffora

Merisel has launched Channel Financial Services to offer new options for resellers to attain additional capital, Web-based business tools and customized financial consulting.

Merisel's dedicated financial services team will work hand-in-hand with resellers to help them choose the financing options that best fit their business models. Many of the new services are specifically designed for small resellers in support of Merisel's VAR strategy, it was said.

"It can be extremely frustrating for a reseller to have no way to finance a great deal," said Don Hafer, Merisel's vice president of North American financial services. "During the past few months we've met with numerous resellers who've told us that they need their distributor to fulfill all of their financing and distribution needs. Our goal is to provide resellers with a wide variety of ways to secure deals and to offer them the benefits of partnering with Merisel as their one-stop financing and distribution shop."