{"id":45645,"date":"2013-09-10T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=45645"},"modified":"2013-09-10T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:32:52","slug":"platinum-micro-to-merge-with-tarsus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/45645\/platinum-micro-to-merge-with-tarsus\/","title":{"rendered":"Platinum Micro to merge with Tarsus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT components distributor, Platinum Micro will merge with Tarsus Technologies on 1 October 2013 as a part of a\u00a0streamlining process within the MB Technologies Group.<\/p>\n<p>MB Technologies Group\u00a0majority shareholder is Royal Bafokeng Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The integration combines the strengths of both companies and allows\u00a0for leveraging of resources and industry expertise to deliver a\u00a0richer, more comprehensive and unparalleled customer experience,&#8221; the groups said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>The move is also a precursor to the planned move to MB Technologies new 30,000sqm warehouse and distribution facility in\u00a0Waterfall Commercial District, Woodmead, Gauteng, in December 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The merger will also provide customers with improved efficiencies in\u00a0distribution, management, operations and overall service delivery, the group&#8217;s said with product portfolios to be integrated.<\/p>\n<p>Tarsus\u2019 head office is situated in Johannesburg with branches in Cape\u00a0Town, KwaZulu-Natal, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein and Nelspruit.<\/p>\n<p>The group has also extended its footprint into Africa with branches in\u00a0Namibia, Botswana and Mauritius.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Tarsus<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Tarsus Technologies appoints CEO\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/42397\/tarsus-technologies-appoints-ceo\/\"><strong>Tarsus Technologies appoints CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tarsus CEO steps down\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/38189\/tarsus-ceo-steps-down\/\"><strong>Tarsus CEO steps down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Tarsus boosted by RIM partnership\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/25230\/tarsus-boosted-by-rim-partnership\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tarsus boosted by RIM partnership<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The need for upgradability in the PC world is dead\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/columns\/19681\/the-need-for-upgradability-in-the-pc-world-is-dead\/\"><strong>The need for upgradability in the PC world is dead<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tarsus targets 18%-22% revenue growth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/19488\/tarsus-targets-18-22-revenue-growth\/\"><strong>Tarsus targets 18%-22% revenue growth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT components distributor, Platinum Micro will merge with Tarsus Technologies on 1 October 2013 as a part of a streamlining process within the MB Technologies Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[25,6626,6621,6625,3790],"class_list":["post-45645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-trending","tag-active","tag-mb-technologies-group","tag-platinum-micro","tag-royal-bafokeng-holdings","tag-tarsus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45645","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=45645"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45677,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45645\/revisions\/45677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}