Black Box Historie

Black Box Network Services - the world's largest technical services company dedicated to designing, building and maintaining today's complicated network infrastructure systems. Black Box services clients of all sizes in 141 countries throughout the world.

Black Box Network Services Denmark was set up in 2000 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Black Box Corporation based in Pittsburgh, USA. The Black Box Denmark office situated in Køge.

Growth

Growth in the Denmark has been consistent at 10% over the last 5 years. Worldwide revenues exceed $535 million and the team of nearly 5.000 employees serves more than 152,000 clients in 141 countries throughout the world. In 1990, the Black Box catalogue had just 145 pages containing 500 products.

Now, the latest Black Box catalogue has over 700 pages featuring more than 10,000 products!

Black Box Corporation

Black Box Corporation is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and was co-founded by Gene Yost and Dick Raub in 1977. The company began selling connectivity devices - the "little black boxes" - that customers needed to connect their primary communications products. The company was originally called Expandor, Inc., but it soon changed to Black Box because customers came to know the company by its catalogue name.

When the first Black Box Catalogue rolled off the presses in early 1977, it had just 6 pages, containing 9 products and it generated $170,000 in sales. Today the Black Box Catalogue-an enormous 700+ page book-features more than 10,000 products and has international versions published in 8 languages.

Headquartered in scenic Lawrence, Pennsylvania, 20 miles south of Pittsburgh, Black Box is now a leading worldwide distributor of computer communications equipment and technical support services with representatives in more than 100 countries.

The company employees around 4000 employees around the world in Europe, South America and the Far East.


The company's success is firmly rooted in the original vision. To create a "central, reliable source for hard-to-find products and technical skill".

Black Box is unique, distinguished by its superior technical support and customer services. Black Box has also merged with onsite communications cabling companies throughout America and Western Europe, making them the largest infrastructure provider in the world. Black Box's services now include not only FREE hotline technical support but also on-site network infrastructure and structured cabling, design, installation, and maintenance. Black Box is poised for excellence in this millennium and beyond.

"We are well positioned in a large and growing market and we have a focused strategy in place to continue our growth for many years." Comments Fred Young, chairman and chief executive officer of Black Box Corporation.

In October 2012, Mr. McAndrew was named president and COO of the company. He served as Executive Vice President from 2010 to 2012. He had been promoted to Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2002, and was named Secretary and Treasurer in 2003. Mr. McAndrew, who has been at Black Box since 1989, held the position of Manager of Corporate Planning and Analysis prior to becoming CFO.

Mission Statement

"Our mission is to provide a service that meets and exceeds the requirements of our customers for network solutions. We aim to achieve this by providing a comprehensive range of quality products and the best technical support and customer care in the business. We are committed to continually improving the quality of our service to our customers."