Crown Records Management Acquires Athema Archiving In South Africa

http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/financial-services/2009090933305.htm

Crown Records Man­age­ment, the world’s num­ber one pri­vate busi­ness infor­ma­tion stor­age com­pany, announced the acqui­si­tion of Ath­ema Archiv­ing, a South African records man­age­ment busi­ness based in Johan­nes­burg, South Africa.

With the acqui­si­tion of this com­pany and highly-developed scan­ning oper­a­tion in South Africa, Crown’s clients will enjoy a full spec­trum of ser­vices rang­ing from imag­ing, data extrac­tion, elec­tronic media stor­age, secure and con­fi­den­tial waste destruc­tion and tra­di­tional doc­u­ment stor­age services.

Estab­lished in 1983, Crown Records Man­age­ment cur­rently serves clients in 52 coun­tries and brings its vast global knowl­edge and high-technology solu­tions to the South African mar­ket­place. Inno­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies pro­vide clients with Web-based sys­tems to retrieve records in stor­age, gen­er­ate cus­tomized reports, and access invoices and billing infor­ma­tion. Off-site data stor­age and host­ing ser­vices enable clients to access elec­tronic files on a secure, Web-based browser.

Flamely Fourie, who was pre­vi­ously based in Dubai, UAE, in charge of Crown’s records man­age­ment divi­sion, will over­see Crown South Africa’s records busi­ness. Fourie said, “I am excited about the growth poten­tial. We will be focus­ing on addi­tional scan­ning busi­ness, as well as more media stor­age and cer­ti­fied destruc­tion services.”

Crown’s Record Man­age­ment in South Africa, head­quar­tered in Johan­nes­burg, oper­ates and serves 300 clients through­out Dur­ban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.

Philip Briton, Crown’s group vice pres­i­dent of Records Man­age­ment added, “This acqui­si­tion strength­ens our devel­op­ment pro­gram through­out the con­ti­nent. South Africa is cur­rently in the top five fastest grow­ing economies and Crown looks for­ward to serv­ing the needs of clients in the quickly grow­ing industry.”

To read more about Crown Records Man­age­ment in South Africa, please visit our Web site at www.crownrms.com/southafrica

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Crown Records Man­age­ment is a divi­sion of the Crown World­wide Group which was estab­lished in 1965. In 1983, Crown real­ized there was a pro­found need for a com­pany to help man­age the explo­sion of phys­i­cal and elec­tronic busi­ness infor­ma­tion. Using its expe­ri­ence in secure stor­age, on-time deliv­ery and track­ing tech­nol­ogy, Crown began offer­ing tra­di­tional records man­age­ment ser­vices includ­ing stor­age, index­ing and destruc­tion of records.

As the company’s list of clients grew, the Crown Records Man­age­ment team expanded its range of ser­vices and tech­nolo­gies to meet its clients’ evolv­ing needs. Today, Crown serves large and small cor­po­ra­tions around the world, pro­vid­ing ser­vices rang­ing from stor­age of hard copies and elec­tronic busi­ness infor­ma­tion to scan­ning, imag­ing, data con­ver­sion, data host­ing, escrow and destruc­tion services.

Crown Records Man­age­ment man­ages more than 20,000,000 cubic feet of busi­ness records across 50 coun­tries, oper­at­ing from over 200 Man­age­ment Cen­ters. Crown has grown to become the num­ber one pri­vate com­pany in this field.

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