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With soaring demand for personal computers and peripherals, resellers and top PC makers posted sharp sales and earnings gains for the December quarter.
Channel players, including MicroAge Inc. and CompuCom Systems Inc., Dallas, attributed the strong growth to continued demand for top-brand PCs. MicroAge's sales jumped 43 percent, to $470.4 million, compared to $327.3- million in the prior year's period. Earnings were $4.5 million, compared with $1.8-million in the year-earlier quarter.
Chairman Jeff McKeever at Tempe, Ariz.-based MicroAge attributed the growth to continued demand for top-brand PCs, along with a sharp increase in the reseller's large-account business. Billion-dollar reseller CompuCom's sales jumped 55 percent to $318.4 million, from $204.9 million in the same quarter the previous year. Earnings for the quarter increased 38 percent, to...