Xerox Emirates supports GEMS Education to reduce its carbon footprint

Press release

Published October 21st, 2012 - 07:35 GMT

Al Bawaba

Xerox Emirates and GEMS Education have signed an agreement to support GEMS sustainability commitment through its Managed Print Services. Through this partnership Xerox will establish print solutions using multifunction devices in GEMS Schools, which will use approximately 50% less energy than the combined annual consumption of the individual products it replaces.

Whilst the partnership is initially focussed on the UAE, Xerox Global reach and help desk will allow GEMS Education to link their regional around the world sites through a single point of contact.

Dino Varkey, Group Executive Director and Board Member, GEMS Education stated, “We look forward to working closely with Xerox Emirates to keep finding ways to improve our approach to document management and deliver more value.”

“Through the partnership between Xerox Emirates and GEMS Education we strive to streamline GEMS Education printing practices, while reducing their impact on the environment, through optimising their current infrastructure.” stated Andrew Hurt, General Manager, Xerox Emirates. “We at Xerox Emirates are very excited about this collaboration with GEMS Education and we believe we have the right technology, support, best practices, subject expertise and resources to execute and implement an extensive MPS initiative such as this one. This is the latest success for our Managed Print Services offering that is transforming the UAE market place.”

Background Information

Xerox

Xerox Corporation is a leading global enterprise for business process and document management. Through its broad portfolio of technology and services, Xerox provides the essential back-office support that clears the way for clients to focus on what they do best: their real business.

Headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, Xerox provides leading-edge document technology, services, software and genuine Xerox supplies for graphic communication and office printing environments of any size.

Company Profile

GEMS Education

In 1959, two teachers, KS Varkey and his wife Mariamma, arrived in Dubai.

At the time, Dubai was a burgeoning trade centre on the Arabian Gulf. The Varkey family had left Kerala, India to seek a better life for their family. What they found was a real need to educate children arriving in the city from around the world.

Their son, Sunny, added a visionary’s ambition to a practitioner's experience. From simple roots in a family of teachers, GEMS Education, is today an international company with schools and education services across the Middle East. We still share the same mission - to provide a quality education to everyone.