Marketing and Distribution

We manage our business based on the principal segments described earlier. We have organized the marketing, selling and distribution of our products and services by geography, channel type, customer or market, and line of business.

Our brand is a valuable resource and continues to be ranked in the top percentile of the most valuable
global brands.

We sell our products and services directly to customers through our worldwide sales force and through a network of independent agents, dealers, value-added resellers, systems integrators and the Web.

In large enterprises, we follow a services-led approach that enables us to address two basic challenges facing large enterprise customers:

  • How to simplify and streamline their infrastructure to be both cost-effective and globally consistent
  • How to improve their value proposition and communication with their customers.
Our go-to-market approach includes the largest direct sales force in the industry, with customers served by Client Managing Directors, Account General Managers and Sales Representatives.

For small and midsize businesses, we continued to expand our distribution in 2011 by acquiring nine companies.

In Europe, Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia, we distribute our products through Xerox Limited, a company established under the laws of England, and related non-U.S. companies. Xerox Limited enters into distribution agreements with unaffiliated third parties to distribute our products in many of the countries located in these regions, and previously entered into agreements with unaffiliated third parties distributing our products in Iran, Sudan and Syria. Iran, Sudan and Syria, among others, have been designated as state sponsors of terrorism by the U.S. Department of State and are subject to U.S. economic sanctions. We maintain an export and sanctions compliance program and believe that we have been and are in compliance with U.S. laws and government regulations for these countries. We have no assets, liabilities or operations in these countries other than liabilities under the distribution agreements. After observing required prior notice periods, Xerox Limited terminated its distribution agreements with distributors servicing Sudan and Syria in
August 2006 and terminated its distribution agreement with the distributor servicing Iran in December 2006. Now, Xerox only has legacy obligations to third parties, such as providing spare parts and supplies to these third parties. In 2011, total Xerox revenues of $22.6 billion included less than $0.1 million attributable to Iran, Sudan and Syria.

We operate in over 160 countries worldwide. We provide the industry’s broadest portfolio of document technology, services and software, and the most diverse array of business processes and IT outsourcing support through a variety of distribution channels around the world.