TigerDirect Buying CompUSA Assets

By Geoff Duncan
January 08, 2008

Electronics marketer Systemax - owner of direct marketer TigerDirect - is buying the CompUSA brand, trademarks, and some of its retail locations.

Fans of old-school technology retailing may rejoice: the CompUSA brand may be changing, but it's not going away. As word broke in late 2007 that the venerable computer retailer CompUSA would be closing its remaining retail stores and, essentially, holding a fire sale on anything left on the shelves, some technology enthusiasts rejoices (whoo hoo! Longer lines at Best Buy, Fry's, and Circuit City!) but others lamented the loss of a well-known brand, where you could always go for a motherboard at two in the morning. And stop for some fries nearby.

Thanks to a deal with electronics retailer Systemax, CompUSA will not be vanishing altogether. The company—which also owns TigerDirect—has inked a deal to buy the CompUSA brand and trademark, along with picking up as many ...

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