The big squeeze hits resellers

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Resellers are being squeezed on all fronts - software, services and especially hardware. But the best-run companies are changing to meet these new challenges

When 2e2 spectacularly crashed at the end of January, leaving behind debts of more than £400m after administrators had sold all its component parts in a fire sale, it lifted the lid on the follies ...

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