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Sprint North Supply Fact Sheet |
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fact sheet provides key information regarding Sprint North Supply. For additional
information, contact the Marketing Communications Department at (913) 791-7000 or (800)
755-3004. Internet Web Site http:\\www.sprint.com or
http:\\www.sprintnorthsupply.com |
| Inventory: |
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- Number of different products in
stock: 30,000
- Approximate inventory value: $140
million
- Manufacturers represented: over
1300
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| Distribution
Centers: 11 facilities totaling 1,067,107 square feet |
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- Portland, Oregon
- Dallas, Texas
- San Francisco, California
- Leesburg, Florida
- Fayetteville, North Carolina
- Milford, Connecticut
- Warsaw, Indiana
- Birmingham, Alabama
- Ontario, California
- New Century, Kansas
- Dayton, New Jersey
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| Top
Officers: |
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- William G. Obermayer - President
- Phillip A. Harris - Executive Vice
President, Operations
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| Employee
Statistics: |
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| Company
Description: |
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Sprint North Supply
is a leading nationwide provider of integrated solutions for voice, data and
teleconferencing needs, security and alarm systems and cable television products. Sprint
North Supply practices Total Quality Management and supports the economy with its
Small/Women/Minority/Business Enterprise Procurement Program. |
| Company
Headquarters: |
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Sprint North
SupplyŐs corporate offices are located in southern metropolitan Kansas City. All customer
services, order entry and distribution operations are coordinated through this facility. |
| Company
History: |
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- 1905 - Founded as Union Electric,
Abilene, Kansas.
- 1965 - Union Electric becomes
United System Supply.
- 1791 - United System Supply merges
into North Electric, a subsidiary of United Utilities; begins selling products to
non-affiliated customers.
- 1972 - United Utilities becomes
United Telecom
- 1977 - North ElectricŐs
manufacturing divisions are sold to ITT; North Supply remains as a separate subsidiary of
United Telecom.
- 1988 - Company surpasses $500
million in annual sales.
- 1988 - Launched EF&I service.
- 1991 - Assumes central warehousing
functions for all United Telephone Operating Companies.
- 1992 - United Telecom changes its
name to Sprint.
- 1993 - North Supply Company adopts
new name, Sprint North Supply.
- 1996 - Initiated sales and service
into cellular and PCS markets.
- 1996 - Cutover Northstar 2000, a
state-of-the-art integrated processing system.
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Sprint Products Group
Company Description: |
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Sprint Products
Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sprint North Supply, develops and markets a broad line
of equipment to the telecommunications industry. These products include digital key hybrid
systems, station apparatus, network and data products. The company is structured to
cooperatively develop products for companies and divisions within the Sprint Corporation,
as well as providing products to an independent dealer network and other independent
telephone companies and equipment resellers. |
| Top
Officers: |
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- Richard K. Summers - Vice
President and General Manager
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| Company
History: |
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- 1983 - Sprint Products Group was
founded as NorthCom Group, Inc. the source of proprietary telecom products to be offered
exclusively through North Supply.
- 1987 - NorthCom renamed Premier
Telecom Products, Inc.; introduces Premier ESP Key System, PremierŐs two-line desk
telephone, and miscellaneous premier products and terminal equipment.
- 1989 - Introduces Premier
Expression Voice Processing; the Premier ESPDX Digital Hybrid / PBX system; and the
Delight Dial-In Handset telephone. Outside plant, network and transmission product lines
continue to expand.
- 1990 - The ESPMDX Digital Hybrid /
PBX System and associated PC console are introduced.
- 1991 - Introduces PremierŐs
Answer Digital ISDN-ready Hybrid / PBX and the Flair family of single- and two-line
feature phones.
- 1992 - PremierŐs Sprint 824
digital wired key system is introduced.
- 1993 - Premier Telecom Products is
renamed Sprint Products Group. The Sprint Protege Digital keysystem is introduced along
with a new wire management system.
- 1995 - Sprint Products Group
introduces Protege Dial, its first CTI software application, and the Questra collection of
Caller ID units.
- 1996 - Protege CTX introduced and
the Questra 5090 Call Waiting Caller ID unit.
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Sprint |
| Company
Description: |
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Sprint is a global
communications company--at the forefront in integrating long distance, local and wireless
communications services and the worldŐs largest carrier of Internet traffic. Sprint built
and operates the United StatesŐ only nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and is
the leader in advanced data communication services. Sprint has $14 billion in annual
revenues and serves more than 16 million business and residential customers. Internet Web
Site http:\\www.sprint.com Sprint
Local Telephone Operations - Provides local communications serving over 7.1 million customer lines
in 19 states.
Sprint Long Distance - Provides global voice, video and data
communications services and related products on the only nationwide, all-digital, all
fiber-optic network.
Sprint North Supply - Provides equipment, supplies and
customized services to the voice, data, teleconferencing, security and alarm and cable
television industries through its 11 distribution centers nationwide.
Sprint Publishing &
Advertising - Is the
10th largest yellow pages publisher in the United States, publishing 329 directories with
an annual circulation of 17 million across 20 states.
Sprint PCS - Is a partnership of Sprint and three of
the nationŐs largest cable companies to provide wireless personal communications service
(PCS) under the Sprint brand.
Global One - Is a worldwide joint venture of Sprint,
Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom to offer a comprehensive array of advanced voice and
data services internationally.
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| Sprint
North Supply
600 New Century Parkway
New Century, Kansas 66031-8000 |
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