MI­A­MI–Xe­rox Cor­po­ra­tion (NYSE: XRX) suc­cess­ful­ly held its an­nu­al Kick-Off with ex­clu­sive dis­trib­u­tors from Xe­rox Dis­trib­u­tor Group (XDG). Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, the Caribbean, Bermu­da and sev­en coun­tries from South Amer­i­ca, of which Venezuela and Colom­bia stand out as large mar­kets, at­tend­ed the meet­ing that was held from Jan­u­ary 16 to 18 in Playa del Car­men, Mex­i­co.

As part of the Kick-Off, Xe­rox award­ed the best dis­trib­u­tors of 2012. The win­ners re­ceived recog­ni­tion and awards for their per­for­mance dur­ing the year in dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories and for out­stand­ing busi­ness achieve­ments that drove Xe­rox's di­rec­tion and strat­e­gy in the re­gion.

The main award went to TSL Group, the T&T dis­trib­u­tor, which ob­tained the Dis­trib­u­tor of the Year Award for its op­er­a­tional ex­cel­lence, its or­ga­ni­za­tion­al struc­ture, its in­vest­ment in the busi­ness and its par­tic­i­pa­tion in train­ings and work­shops, among oth­er as­pects that were eval­u­at­ed by Xe­rox.

An im­por­tant award, known as Un­leash the Po­ten­tial, went to PBS–Pro­duc­tive Busi­ness So­lu­tions–Xe­rox's dis­trib­u­tor in sev­er­al Caribbean coun­tries and through­out Cen­tral Amer­i­ca. The award was giv­en for the de­vel­op­ment, im­ple­men­ta­tion and ex­e­cu­tion of sev­er­al ini­tia­tives that helped raise its per­for­mance to the top.

In ad­di­tion, awards were giv­en to the dis­trib­u­tors who stood out in the dif­fer­ent busi­ness lines: Of­fice, Graph­ic Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Sup­plies. There were al­so spe­cial awards for the dis­trib­u­tor with the best Cus­tomer Ser­vice, the best one in Pa­per Sales, and the use of Soft­ware So­lu­tions.

Fer­nan­do Garc�a Cant�n, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, XDG, par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Kick-Off and point­ed out: "The on­go­ing strength­en­ing of our re­gion­al busi­ness net­work is vi­tal for Xe­rox so that our end users and clients may ac­cess our prod­ucts and ser­vices, thus be­ing able to op­er­ate with greater ease and ef­fi­cien­cy and fo­cus on their busi­ness­es. This is why we are very proud of our part­ners and hope to con­tin­ue work­ing with them to keep in­creas­ing our busi­ness in the re­gion."