{"id":2639,"date":"2012-01-16T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T12:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2012-01-16T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T12:18:55","slug":"western-digital-appoints-sa-country-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/2639\/western-digital-appoints-sa-country-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital appoints SA country manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global hard-drive manufacturer, <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/386647-Western-Digital\" target=\"_blank\">Western Digital<\/a>, has appointed <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/396483-Anamika-Budree\" target=\"_blank\">Anamika Budree<\/a> as the country manager for South Africa, as the group looks to expand further into the country.<\/p>\n<p>The position will create a vendor presence in the country for Western Digital, and provide a platform for greater penetration into the local market.<\/p>\n<p>The position highlights WD&#8217;s expansion plans, which include growing its retail business &#8211; through both franchise and independent retailers &#8211; while introducing training and marketing initiatives to grow WD&#8217;s brand presence in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apart from growing our existing business, we also want to tap into new markets,&#8221; said Budree in a statement. &#8220;The retail space is growing in leaps and bounds for WD in the South African market, and we aim to continue this momentum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2647\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Anamika-Budree1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2647\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2647\" title=\"Anamika Budree\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Anamika-Budree1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Anamika-Budree1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Anamika-Budree1-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anamika Budree<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global hard-drive manufacturer, Western Digital, has appointed Anamika Budree as the Country Manager for South Africa as part of its local expansion strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,635,637,633],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-anamika-budree","tag-local","tag-western-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","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=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}