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What is Google telling us about the secondary market for IT and electronics?
Google’s Certified Refurbished Phone Program highlights a growing trend of OEMs entering the secondary market to control ecosystems, brand perception, and margins. This move disrupts traditional IT asset resale channels, creating challenges for ITAD vendors while underscoring the economic potential of refurbished IT assets. ITADs must adapt by focusing on premium services like ESG reporting and secure data handling to thrive in this evolving landscape.
First Impressions: Leadership Shift at Blancco: What Lou DiFruscio’s Appointment Signals
For as long as I’ve known Blancco Technology Group , the company has been making frequent adjustments to respond to market conditions. I started interacting with Blancco about two decades ago, when it began to penetrate the ITAD data erasure market, outshining various...
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What is Google telling us about the secondary market for IT and electronics?
Google’s Certified Refurbished Phone Program highlights a growing trend of OEMs entering the secondary market to control ecosystems, brand perception, and margins. This move disrupts traditional IT asset resale channels, creating challenges for ITAD vendors while underscoring the economic potential of refurbished IT assets. ITADs must adapt by focusing on premium services like ESG reporting and secure data handling to thrive in this evolving landscape.
First Impressions: Leadership Shift at Blancco: What Lou DiFruscio’s Appointment Signals
For as long as I’ve known Blancco Technology Group , the company has been making frequent adjustments to respond to market conditions. I started interacting with Blancco about two decades ago, when it began to penetrate the ITAD data erasure market, outshining various...
First impressions: Iron Mountain’s Third Quarter Results
Iron Mountain’s 3rd quarter results depict a strong performance for its Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM), where its ITAD operation resides. The revenue grown of 145% year over year to $102 million may be too premature to conclude that the tailwinds the company is...
Deep Dive into the ITAD and Recycling Certification Landscape, with Rike Sandlin
First Impressions: Leadership Shift at Blancco: What Lou DiFruscio’s Appointment Signals
For as long as I’ve known Blancco Technology Group , the company has been making frequent adjustments to respond to market conditions. I started interacting with Blancco about two decades ago, when it began to penetrate the ITAD data erasure market, outshining various...
Recurring Compliance Issues: Walmart and Retailer Waste Disposal Challenges
In a recent issue, E-Scrap News reported that Walmart will pay $7.5 million in a settlement it reached with California's Attorney General over allegations of hazardous and medical waste disposal violations. For context, the settlement is the result of a lawsuit filed...
Research: ITAD & E-Recycling Industries End 2024 on Solid Note, Brace for Stronger 2025
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the ITAD market’s performance over the past two years, the key factors driving growth, and potential challenges. It also explores the strategic responses of industry leaders, including operational improvements and evolving service offerings, and assesses the outlook for 2025.
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End-User Research: Getting to Know your ITAD Vendor: SHI International
Client Services: Established in 1989, Somerset, NJ-based SHI International calls itself as “a personal technology concierge.” With gross sales of $14 billion in 2022 and with 6,000 employees, SHI sells IT hardware, software, and solutions to thousands of customers worldwide. While it offers IT asset disposition services, ITAD is a tiny portion of the company’s business, and is insignificant compared to its various core businesses.
Making the Case for Effective Decarbonization: Why Carbon Trading is Not Enough
In 2023 and 2024, the urgency for real climate solutions has hit us harder than ever. We’ve seen devastating storms, wildfires and floods in places like Florida, California, China, Libya, and even the mighty Sahara Desert experienced rainfalls that it has not seen in centuries. Globally, there have been record-breaking wildfires, and the...
Recurring Compliance Issues: Walmart and Retailer Waste Disposal Challenges
In a recent issue, E-Scrap News reported that Walmart will pay $7.5 million in a settlement it reached with California's Attorney General over allegations of hazardous and medical waste disposal violations. For context, the settlement is the result of a lawsuit filed in 2021, following over 70 waste audits conducted between 2015 and 2021, which...
Analysis: Sage Expands Beyond ITAD, Breaks into the Break-Fix Market
On October 22, 2024, Sage Sustainable Electronics (Sage) issued a press release via Businesswire to announce its acquisition of an electronics repair firm called Relectro. This acquisition is somewhat unique in Sage’s context because Relectro does not operate in Sage’s traditional ITAD space. It offers board-level and post-warranty repair for devices like laptops, tablets, and mobile handsets, which means that it operates in a stage that precedes Sage’s typical involvement. As such, we perceive this acquisition as a pathway for Sage to expand upstream in the ITAM sector.
Research: ITAD & E-Recycling Industries End 2024 on Solid Note, Brace for Stronger 2025
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the ITAD market’s performance over the past two years, the key factors driving growth, and potential challenges. It also explores the strategic responses of industry leaders, including operational improvements and evolving service offerings, and assesses the outlook for 2025.
Ingram Micro’s ITAD Business at a Crossroads: 2025 Could Be a Make-or-Break Year
I was excited to learn that Ingram Micro (IM) filed for an IPO on the last day of September. Becoming a public company would give us better visibility on how the company is performing, even if its ITAD unit is small in comparison to its core business. The IPO filing by Platinum Equity would pave the way for the return of Ingram Micro to the public market after it left it in 2016. In 2021, Platinum Equity acquired it from previous owner, HNA Group, for $7.4 billion.
M&A: Iron Mountain’s ITAD Acquisitions: A Strategic Move or Risky Business?
The recent news stories of Iron Mountain acquiring the Irish firm Wisetek have created a head-scratching moment. As I spoke to a number of executives in the ITAD space, the general reaction has been: Are we seeing another Arrow in the making? However, it would be naïve to believe that the purchase of three ITAD-related entities could in itself spell doom. Iron Mountain certainly has its work cut out in terms of integration, optimization and messaging, but there are plenty of opportunities ahead to properly leverage its three ITAD units.
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