Modi Infosol forays into telecom and retail

Modi Infosol, earlier known as Modi

Peripheral, a Delhi based regional distributor has forayed into

telecom and retail business. The company is aggressively looking at

this space. Of late, it has signed up partnership with major mobile

handset companies and set up a separate telecom channel. While

explaining the new line of business, Shyam Sunder Modi, director,

Modi Infosol said, “This year, we have expanded our distribution

platter, while having alliance with principal companies like Asus,

Ricoh, Acer, Motorola, Philips, Viewsonic and Samsung. Apart from our

IT business, which is mainly for HP commercial range of products and

Microsoft. We had decided to expand our horizon from IT to telecom

and retail. In the current IT distribution business, selling pure IT

is becoming challenging, therefore we diversify into retail and

telecom. Currently, our telecom business is contributing Rs 2 crore

every month.”

All the above partnerships are largely

limited to Delhi and some parts of northern region. Moreover, for

retail business, the company has formed a separate company under the

name of New Age Techsol. In the telecom space, Modi has added Acer

tablets and smartphones, followed by Motorola mobile in Central

Delhi, Philips mobile, Viewsonic tablets, whereas in the IT business,

it has added Asus notebook and netbook and Ricoh entry level

printers. However, the company has discontinued its alliance with

Toshiba laptops. “We are quite bullish on the Asus laptops

business. We have sold 1,500 units of SKUs in last month and seeing a

rapid growth mo- m. To push our telecom sales, we have appointed 125

new telecom partners in Delhi. On the retail front, we have added

Samsung and opened our retail store, dubbed as Samsung Smart Cafe in

Delhi for its complete range of mobile phones, laptops, and cameras,”

Modi concluded.