Amstrad - Expands its Sales Outlets
Amstrad expands sales outlets
AMSTRAD EXPANDS SALES OUTLETS DALLAS, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1989 AUG 28 (NB) -- Amstrad has announced a major expansion in the number of department stores and consumer electronics outlets selling its home office targeted products.
Availability in mass merchandising outlets makes computer, printers and basic software more readily accessible to the home office shopper. Amstrad is handling the question of service and support for end users by offering a toll free service hotline number.
Amstrad is now sold in over 800 Sears outlets and is on a trial basis in Walmart stores. The products are available through JC Penney's catalog as well as in Dillards, Fred Schmid, Luskins, H.H. Gregg, Home Centers, Lazarus, the Electronic Boutique, Crutchfield, Garrett Miller, J.B. Dahlkemper, Office America, Peterson's Sound Backgrounds and Swallens.
Amstrad has a Home Office Division for these products. Amstrad computers are IBM-compatible and come in a variety of configurations ranging from the PC20 (8 MHz 8086 16-bit processor with 512K RAM and Microsoft mouse) to the PC1640 (640K RAM, built-in EGA capability, and 30 MByte hard disk drive.) The company also sells several printers as well as two software packages, Discover Kit, a software sampler, and Alphaworks, a three-in-one word processing,database management and spreadsheet program.
(Janet Endrijonas/19890901/Press Contact: Cathy O'Rourke Johnson, CJ Associates, 617-266-4688)
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