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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.

Tough Times for the ITAD/Electronics Recycling Sector

The IT Asset Disposition space, and extending into electronics recycling are witnessing an unprecedented state of retraction. Growth has been lagging, as volumes and prices have been moving in directions that do not help the industry maintain proper...

Will Arrow Electronics Focus on Cleaning Up its ITAD Acquisitions?

It’s been a while since the late October release of Arrow’s results for its fiscal third quarter. Arrow Electronics results are important considering it has some 11% direct penetration rate of US enterprise ITAD, and it is therefore relevant in the assessment of the...