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Alco Industries company history timeline

1983

In 1983 seven office-products distributors were brought in.

1984

In 1984 Alco merged these smaller firms into a single operation named Alco Industries and sold the new company to its managers.

In 1984 Mundt divided the remaining companies into eight distinct segments including paper products, pharmaceuticals, and food equipment.

1987

1987: IOS Capital, Inc., is formed in Macon, Georgia.

1992

In 1992, Alco Standard entered into a joint venture with Europe's IMM Office Systems.

1996

By the end of September 1996, revenues had reached $4.1 billion.

The paper distribution business was spun off to shareholders in December 1996 as a separate, publicly owned company.

During the second quarter of 1996, Alco completed two mergers: Legal Copies International, Inc. and JMM Enterprises.

1998

The company's acquisitive period ended in the second quarter of 1998, and at that time, the Company was structured into three divisions--Business Services, Document Services, and Technology Services.

1999

In 1999, though, IKON began to change the structure of its operations in order to function more effectively as a "one-stop" provider of integrated solutions matched to customer's business communications needs.

The remaining business units of Document Services--Business Document Services, Legal Document Services, and Business Imaging Services--as well as Technology Services, which had received several awards in 1999 for industry leadership, were now included in the Other operating segment.

2001

Although a leader in its field, IKON experienced a 3.2 percent loss in revenues in 2001 due to decisions to de-emphasize or close down certain hardware and service offerings and the impact of a slowing economy.

2003

In February 2003, Espe replaced Forese as IKON's chairman.

2015

http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/railroads/alcohistory/index.html updated March 31, 2015

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