please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . august 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message misco industry computer hardware founded 1985 ; 31 years ago 1985 new jersey u.s. headquarters wellingborough england u.k. website http www.misco.co.uk misco is an it reseller that is a subsidiary of systemax inc. 1 the company operates in the united kingdom italy france spain ireland belgium the netherlands and sweden . 1 misco also used to operate in germany but that business has been sold to cancom se . 2 sales are targeted at business education public sector and consumer markets with sales being made online via telephone and mail order catalogue . history edit misco was founded in new jersey usa and ran a business of mail order sale of computer supplies and accessories . gillette invested in misco in 1983 taking a 40 % stake as part of a program to acquire high growth low risk businesses . 3 misco established its first european subsidiary in italy followed by uk and west germany in late 1985 citation needed . in november 1987 gillette sold the company to the british company electrocomponents plc for the sum of 11 000 000 citation needed . the effects of the early 1990s recession led electrocomponents to sell misco at a loss in early 1993 citation needed . the buyer global computer supplies was controlled by systemax inc and hcs global ltd at the time citation needed . in 2002 global now known as systemax began a program of restructuring . this would see its newly acquired simply computers business merge with misco s uk operation in wellingborough by 2005 . 4 also logistics were established in a purpose built warehouse in greenock scotland . the brick and mortar outlets founded by simply were gradually closed down a symptom of consumer trends moving away from the high street and to online citation needed . misco expanded its business from 2005 onwards winning customer satisfaction awards from pricegrabber a performance award from hitwise and achieving isis and idis disambiguation needed accreditations . 5 in 2009 misco announced plans for hiring remote sales agents on a work from home basis . 6 in 2016 systemax sold misco germany to cancom se . 2 external links edit misco uk official website misco ireland official website misco netherlands official website misco europe portal references edit a b systemax worldwide partners a b systemax announces sale of german operations to cancom se press release . port washington new york pr newswire . 2016 07 25 . retrieved 2016 09 23 . gordon mckibben 1998 . cutting edge gillette s journey to global leadership . harvard business press . p. 121 . isbn 978 0 87584 725 2 . simply computers suffers big redundancies misco accreditation awards misco gm sandy price interviewed by hexus.tv retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title misco & oldid 742277166 categories companies based in northamptonshirehidden categories articles needing additional references from august 2011all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2011all articles with links needing disambiguationarticles with links needing disambiguation from march 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 october 2016 at 19 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view