After local kaumatua blessed the whare, Wade Brown welcomed the visitors saying, “This is a significant milestone for Konica Minolta and positive news for the Wellington business community. Konica Minolta continues to shine as an industry leader and future-thinking corporation, which I’m pleased to support, with the recent announcement of the company’s naming as a Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporation.”
The 900sqm centre encompasses a showroom, meeting rooms and offices, as well as demonstration facilities that showcase Konica Minolta’s award-winning range of bizhub printers, multifunctional devices and the new flagship range of bizhub Press production print systems. The company also features its portfolio of software solutions for document imaging and management.
Warwick Beban, general manager for Konica Minolta in New Zealand, says, “This exciting new centre provides us with state-of-the-art facilities to serve our customers in the capital. The opening of the new Wellington office demonstrates Konica Minolta’s continued success and drive for growth. The outstanding bizhub range is in great demand and our new centre provides the ideal showcase.”
Situated in Taranaki Street in the middle of the Windy city, the technology centre has conference areas and meeting rooms for customer consultations. Konica Minolta Wellington boasts the largest service and support team in the region, and remotely monitors bizhub devices around the clock.
Beban says that environmental consideration plays an integral part of research and development for Konica Minolta, along with its drive to continually produce new, market-leading technologies. The company recently made the list for the 2011 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World, a global list of corporations that excel in the area of sustainability.
Konica Minolta also received recognition from independent research company Buyers Lab, which gave its Line of the Year Award to Konica Minolta for its multifunctional peripherals (MFPs).
This annual award is presented to the manufacturer whose product line BLI considered the best overall in its rigorous evaluations.
