Harris Technology Pty Ltd. is an Australian electronics retailer owned and operated by Officeworks

Officeworks

Officeworks is a chain of Australian office supplies stores which was established in the early 1990s by Coles Myer...

, a subsidiary of Wesfarmers

Wesfarmers

Wesfarmers Limited is one of Australia’s largest public companies and one of Australia's largest retailers. Its headquarters are in Perth, Western Australia....

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Early history

Harris Technology was started by Ron Harris on 6 October 1986. After a trip to the USA, it became apparent that the IT Retail market in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 would be receptive to a computer superstore. Harris Technology opened its first Superstore in North Sydney

North Sydney, New South Wales

North Sydney is a suburb and commercial district on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. North Sydney is located 3 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of North Sydney...

, under the Bayer Building (formerly Mann Building then Konika Building).

On 1 April 1999, Coles Myer acquired Harris Technology. Since then, Harris Technology expanded with business centres in five Australian states

States and territories of Australia

The Commonwealth of Australia is a union of six states and various territories. The Australian mainland is made up of five states and three territories, with the sixth state of Tasmania being made up of islands. In addition there are six island territories, known as external territories, and a...

 and a website including detailed information on more than 15,000 technology products (as of Aug 2006), and has become one of Australia’s major resellers of technology to small and medium businesses.

In late 2008 Harris Technology reduced the number of business centres it operated from 11 to 5 (one in each major capital), placing more focus on their direct retail channels (i.e.: phone, fax and internet orders).

Business Focus

Harris Technology has a small/medium business and retail focus, with sales teams, websites and stores designed to appeal to this market. Their product range includes computers, networking, storage, printing, accessories, servers, software and licensing, sold through retail stores, contact centres and online.

Harris Technology works alongside a range of major vendors in the IT industry, including Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

, Compaq

Compaq

Compaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard....

, Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, Acer

Acer (company)

Acer Incorporated is a multinational information technology and electronics corporation headquartered in Xizhi, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Acer's products include desktop and laptop PCs, tablet computers, servers, storage devices, displays, smartphones and peripherals...

, Toshiba

Toshiba

is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...

, Samsung

Samsung

The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...

 and many more. In mid 2006 Harris Technology expanded the reselling of Apple products, expanding from just iPods to the entire range of Apple products including the Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

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Harris Technology offers finance options, such as leasing and rental to approved applicants. Extended warranty are offered for most purchases.

Locations

The company's business centres are located in North Ryde, New South Wales

North Ryde, New South Wales

North Ryde is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. North Ryde is located 15 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Ryde...

, Hawthorn East, Victoria

Hawthorn East, Victoria

Hawthorn East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara...

, Fyshwick, Australian Capital Territory

Fyshwick, Australian Capital Territory

Fyshwick is an industrial suburb of Canberra, located east of the South Canberra district. On Census night 2006, Fyshwick had a population of 54 people....

 and Fortitude Valley, Queensland