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TigerDirect (also known as TigerDirect.com) is a
Systemax subsidiary. It is a direct online retailer of computer
electronic items. Tiger Direct also operates seven retail stores in the
United States and four in Canada.
TigerDirect has offices in Miami, Florida (corporate headquarters and 2
retail stores); Naperville, Illinois (distribution center, retail store
and corporate sales office); Orland Park, Illinois (retail store);
Hoffman Estates, Illinois (retail store); Raleigh, North Carolina
(retail store and corporate sales office); and Durham, North Carolina
(retail store). The online companies OnRebate.com and
WorldwideRebates.com perform its rebate processing and are owned its
parent company, Systemax
It was founded by Gilbert Fiorentino, Carl Fiorentino and Daniel Brown
in 1987 as Tiger Software, a publisher of titles for both Microsoft
Windows and Apple Macintosh. Some of the titles published by
TigerSoftware included The Typewriter, and PopDrop. In 1989, Tiger
Software became a subsidiary of publicly held "Bloc Development
Corporation" (NASDAQ:BDEV), founded by Frank Millman. Bloc Development
was also the parent company of SoftSync (founded and directed by Ken and
Sue Currier), former publisher of the Macintosh accounting software
"Accountant Inc." and Bloc Publishing (headed by Gilbert Fiorentino). It
was later spun off as "Tiger Direct" (NASDAQ:TIGR), and in 1996, it
changed its public representation to Systemax (NYSE: SYX).

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