{
  "id": 17222258,
  "title": "Kodak Alaris appoints Kolok as SA distributor",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/kodak-alaris-appoints-kolok-as-sa-distributor",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-30T11:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ITWeb",
    "slug": "itweb",
    "url": "https://www.itweb.co.za/article/kodak-alaris-appoints-kolok-as-sa-distributor/KA3Ww7dzXGnqrydZ"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Document scanning technology company Kodak Alaris has announced the appointment of Kolok as its South African distribution partner. The collaboration aims to enhance product availability, expand reseller coverage, and make the company's document scanner portfolio more accessible to customers nationwide.\n\nKolok, which has around 2,500 resellers, will bring its extensive distribution infrastructure and expertise in representing global technology brands to the partnership. Elias Mouchantaf, Kodak Alaris' regional business director for MEA, Southern and Eastern Europe, and APAC, highlighted that Kodak Alaris already collaborates with three other distributors in South Africa.\n\nThe companies plan to target industries that still rely on paper documents or incorporate paper into their business processes. Mouchantaf noted that South Africa is a strategically important market for Kodak Alaris, and appointing Kolok as its distributor marks an important step in the company's development.\n\nKolok's CEO, Warren Strauss, expressed enthusiasm about the partnership, emphasizing the strong potential of combining Kodak Alaris' document capture technology with Kolok's reseller network and customer base in South Africa. The agreement involves joint sales and marketing efforts, reseller training, and customer engagement initiatives. The two companies will also identify priority industry sectors and provide resellers with applications for production and distributed scanning.\n\nKodak Alaris and Kolok aim to leverage their combined global technology and local expertise to create a stronger commercial foundation for their partners and customers. The partnership is set to commence immediately, with joint reseller engagement, training, and demand-generation activities planned as part of the rollout.",
  "summary": "The appointment expands scanner availability and reseller coverage across SA.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}