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The Old Hand: the end times are near?

Keep The Faith The Old Hand theoldhand.wordpresscom

The Handelot Times Issue 8, July 2018 4 min read

Having been in the business of smartphone distribution for many years (28 in fact), I get rather bored of hearing the cynics beating on the same drum over and over again.

Will we ever do another deal? There’s no profit anymore! Its over!

Well it’s not over! In fact it’s just started. Let me tell you why.

The latest figures released show that in the first quarter of 2018, there was a global distribution reduction across the whole manufacturing spectrum by an average of 29%. Now that’s big!

The rest of this article is in the magazine Continue in issue 8

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