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Introduction

1102 15th Street Southwest, Suite 102
Auburn, Washington 98001
U.S.A.
Telephone: (253) 205-30000
Fax: (253) 205-2558
Web site: http://www.zones.com

Public Company
Incorporated: 1988 as Multiple Zones International, Inc.
Employees: 527
Sales: $460.77 million (2003)
Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol: ZONS
NAIC: 454113 Mail-Order Houses

Zones, Inc. is a direct marketer of information technology products to small-to-medium sized businesses and the public sector. Zones sells its products through catalogs, the Internet, and legions of account executives. The company began by selling primarily Mac software to consumers—something Zones still does through an inbound call center—but during the late 1990s the company shifted its market focus to corporate customers. Zones sells more than 150,000 products made by manufacturers such as Apple, Cisco, Epson, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, and Sony, among others. The company's facilities in the Pacific Northwest are complemented by a distribution center in Wilmington, Ohio.

1. Introduction
2. Origins
3. Strong Growth During the 1990s
4. Stumbling in the Late 1990s
5. Lalji Taking Command in 1998
6. Principal Subsidiaries
7. Principal Competitors
8. Further Reading
9. Copyright Page
10. About Page