Black Box Corporation
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Black Box Corporation NYSE: BBOX headquartered in Lawrence County near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
It is a technical services company[citation needed] dedicated to designing, building, and maintaining data and voice network infrastructure systems. The company serves small, medium and enterprise corporations, government, educational institutions, home offices plus resellers, such as CDW and Tiger Direct.
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[edit] History
Starting as a company called Expandor, Inc. in 1976, the company officially changed its name to Black Box in 1982. In 1994 the company went public. In 2006, Black Box acquired NextiraOne, LLC, to expand its voice services.
Black Box is known for maintaining a large inventory of products. They offer: cabinets, racks and furniture, cable & Infrastructure Converters, Data Communication, Industrial, KVM Switch, multimedia and Presentation, networking, Peripheral Switching and Sharing, Power and Surge Protection, reference and training, security, servers and storage, telephony, tools and testers plus wireless equipment.
The company announced in March 2007 that it would take a substantial charge related to stock options.
[edit] Services
Black Box specializes in three areas:
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[edit] References
- [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07116/781235-100.stm Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
Thursday, April 26, 2007. Nasdaq lets Black Box stay. By Corilyn Shropshire]
