{"id":204148,"date":"2017-10-10T16:34:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=204148"},"modified":"2017-10-10T16:34:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:34:02","slug":"asus-south-africa-and-mustek-announce-new-sales-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/204148\/asus-south-africa-and-mustek-announce-new-sales-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUS South Africa and Mustek announce new sales partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Listed assembler and distributor of personal computers and complementary ICT products in South Africa, Mustek has partnered with ASUS South Africa&#8217;s Republic of Gamers (ROG).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Availability and distribution will commence on the 16th October 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/192392\/mustek-appointed-apple-reseller-for-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In August<\/a>, Mustek was officially appointed as an authorised Apple reseller for the South African market, selling and supporting Apple\u2019s entire product range.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, the ICT group reported a drop in revenue for the year ended June 2017, citing reduced spending from the government sector.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s revenue from continuing operations decreased by 0.8% to R5.24 billion, while profit from operations declined to R173 .6 million, from R188.8 million before.<\/p>\n<p>Mustek\u2019s headline earnings per share is 5.7% higher at 81.26 cents (2016: 76.88 cents) and basic earnings per share is 8.4% higher at 80.32 cents (2016: 74.13 cents).<\/p>\n<p>The gross profit percentage from continuing operations was marginally down from 12.9% to 12.6%, predominantly as a result of product mix, the drive to reduce inventory levels and an increase in inventory provisions, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the gross profit percentages achieved by products such as Huawei Enterprise Solutions and Microsoft Volume Licensing are lower, their contributions to profit are expected to continue growing,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/195300\/mustek-revenue-hit-by-reduced-government-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mustek revenue hit by reduced government spending<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed assembler and distributor of personal computers and complementary ICT products in South Africa, Mustek has partnered with ASUS South Africa Republic of Gamers (ROG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6322,1097],"class_list":["post-204148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-asus","tag-mustek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204176,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204148\/revisions\/204176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}