Tamil Nadu based Confed-ITA Association has planned to have a meeting with vendors and distributors. The meeting is titled, ‘GT2GT’ (Get together to grow together’ as is likely to attended by the vendors and distributors.
Sujay Vijayan, Secretary of the association, tells, “The association is likely to hold the meeting in a private hotel in Coimbatore. We had sent the invitations across the list of vendors and we expect participation from the vendors mainly in the laptop segments and we had extended the invitation to the national distributors association also.”
“The objective of the meet is to come out with new some solutions / sugsuggestions which would be mutually beneficial for both the vendor as well as dealer community. The agenda would be to have a healthy interactive session where both sides should debate and finalize on certain policies.”, he further added.
During the meeting some of the key aspects of the channel business including the service issues, dead-on-arrival and other pricing parity will also take part in the key discussions. The five key stakeholders of the IT industry, EOM, national distributor, regional distributors, resellers and service providers will discuss the issues that are hindering the growth of the channel industry.
The association has conducted a similar meeting in 2011 where the members discussed the issue of those days. “We will be discussing on the roadmap for the channel business for the next three years”, Sujay Vijayan concluded.