Xerox acquires Scottish Concept
Norwalk-based Xerox Corp. said it has purchased the Concept Group, a Scottish supplier of digital document solutions, to broaden its presence in the small and medium-sized business market in the United Kingdom.
The terms of the sale were not disclosed.
The Concept Group will begin selling Xerox products and supplies immediately.
Xerox recently made other expansions in Europe through the acquisitions of Irish Business Systems in Ireland and Veenman in the Netherlands.
Concept Group is based in Livingston, Scotland, and has nine locations in the U.K. and more than 50 salespeople. It will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox, keeping its name and headquarters.
Concept Group founder Colin Paterson will continue to run the company, reporting to Douraid Zaghouani, president of Xerox”™s Indirect Channels Group.
Xerox has more than 4,700 workers in the U.K., including 230 in Scotland.
Danbury gets a Planet
Planet Pizza has opened its ninth location on Newtown Road in Danbury.
The Planet Pizza restaurants are family owned and operated by brothers Frank, Joe and Mike Rocco. The company also has stores in Darien, Greenwich, Norwalk, Ridgefield, Shelton, Stamford, Westport and White Plains, N.Y.
The brothers said they opened in Danbury because of customer demand in the western part of Fairfield County and hope to serve Bethel, Newtown, New Fairfield and Brookfield.
New train cars arrive
Metro-North recently introduced the Kawasaki M-8 rail cars at the Stamford stop.
The first of the red and black trains left Stamford for Grand Central last week on the New Haven Line for a test run. The second of the six-car trains is expected to arrive next month.
The train is the first train of six M-8 cars and will begin carrying paying customers within the next couple of weeks after completing testing. The train must run without significant error for 4,000 miles.
The trains are the newest edition to the Metro-North train car. The predecessor M-7 cars were brought into service in 2002 on Metro-North”™s Harlem and Hudson lines and the Long Island Railroad.
The M-8 and the M-7 are built by Montreal-based Bombardier Inc.
