EXTON, PA — Ricoh is pressing deeper into the fast-growing professional audiovisual market, acquiring New York-based Presentation Products, Inc. in a move that sharply expands its U.S. footprint in workplace technology and managed services.
The deal brings PPI, a thirty-year-old AV integrator with a staff of about 100 engineers, designers, and technologists, into Ricoh’s North American digital services operation. The company will be folded into Cenero, Ricoh’s wholly owned managed AV services business, strengthening Ricoh’s ability to deliver large-scale workplace, collaboration, and conferencing solutions.
PPI serves enterprise customers across finance, legal, media, and other high-value industries, where demand for complex hybrid-work environments and always-on collaboration platforms continues to grow. Its design and engineering expertise gives Ricoh a faster path to delivering integrated systems that combine audiovisual, IT, collaboration software, and managed services under one umbrella.
“Ricoh is investing in high-growth digital services that enable enterprises to build more connected, collaborative, and intelligent workplaces,” said Bob Lamendola, chief digital services and delivery officer for Ricoh North America. He said PPI’s strong presence in New York City, the largest AV market in North America, will immediately expand Ricoh’s ability to deliver those solutions at scale.
Ricoh said the integration will be designed to maintain service continuity for clients while giving PPI employees access to broader career paths, training, and technical resources within Ricoh’s global organization.
“Ricoh’s vision for a connected, intelligent workplace aligns perfectly with the work our team has been doing for decades,” said Orin Knopp, founder and chief executive of Presentation Products. He said the combination will allow PPI to deliver more innovation and scale without losing the culture and client relationships it has built since 1994.
The acquisition is the latest in a string of AV and collaboration-technology investments by Ricoh around the world, including Cenero in the United States and DataVision, Pure AV, AVC, Videocorp, and Go2neXt across Europe and Latin America. Together, those deals reflect a broader shift by Ricoh away from traditional office hardware toward digital workplace services aimed at the hybrid and remote-work economy.
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