Our Most Valuable Assets Went Home At Night
When Glenayre purchased Quintron and BBL (circa’89), we were three independent paging companies, manufacturing similar, or competitive products, and overnight we became one. At first, management focused on the tangible assets, warehouses and manufacturing facilities. We then focused on products and customers, but as the businesses came together, it became clear that the real value […]
A Chronological Operating History of Brightpoint Middle East
During the late 1990s, Brightpoint Middle East operated from Dubai as a regional mobile-handset distribution, logistics and outsourced-services company. It connected handset manufacturers—including Nokia and emerging wireless-device brands—with mobile-network operators, distributors, retailers and consumers across the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia. The operation handled handset procurement, importing, demand forecasting, inventory management, product configuration, […]
Workz: From Mobile Distribution to Global eSIM Technology
Workz developed alongside the extraordinary growth of mobile telecommunications across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Over approximately 27 years, the Dubai-based company evolved from a regional telecom-products and supply-chain business into one of the world’s largest manufacturers of SIM and prepaid recharge products—and ultimately into an international eSIM, remote-provisioning and cloud-connectivity company. Its history […]