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Gateway in the News

Two news items from Gateway this week:

On 26 March, Gateway announced a new leadership team, incorporating many executives from eMachines into their senior management. They’ve segmented sales into retail/consumer channels and professional. The “Professional” group will be headed by Scott Weinbrandt, previously Gateway’s SVP/GM of enterprise systems and professional business services. In the new structure, he will run sales activities in the Professional segment, which includes public sector, SMB and corporate/strategic accounts.
It’s unclear who will be picking up the enterprise systems and prof svcs business, or if Gateway will manage and sell those products through this vertical approach. This is important because Gateway’s Utility Computing initiative was run from the old group. This new go-to-market plan might strengthen Gateway’s ability to sell and serve enterprise customers.

On 1 April, Gateway announced that it will close its retail stores on 9 April and will shift its retail strategy behind the strong relationships that eMachines (acquisition completed 11 March) has with retailers. They will lay off all store employees, affecting about 2,500 people. The impact of this may be positive, allowing Gateway concentrate on it its core businesses of design and production, and pssibly focus more on enterprise customers and services.

Sources: Gateway Computers - Press Releases