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Trey Beall has been in the copier and office machine business since the early 1990s. As president of Gulf Coast Office Products, he has seen these machines get faster, better and more capable over the years. “Just when I think they’ve done it all,” he says, “they have something new on the horizon.”
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Top executive: Trey Beall, President
Phone: 225.756.2644
Address: 10424 Plaza Americana Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70816Website: gcopnet.com
Gulf Coast Office Products has been a supplier of Savin and Ricoh office machines—such as copiers, printers, fax machines and multifunction machines—since 1977. More recently, the company has branched out into a new product area: interactive whiteboards.
Beall is impressed with these devices, too—and happy to see them catching on at businesses that have been coping with challenges related to remote and hybrid work since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic three years ago.
“It’s almost like having an iPad on the wall,” Beall says. “Anything that you can pull up on an iPad, you can pull up on the whiteboard. But you can also walk up to it with a pen and make notations on a spreadsheet or a construction drawing or something like that. Or you can push a button and turn it into a plain whiteboard. It allows people to have a collaborative meeting even if they aren’t in the same office.”
