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Top Reasons to Join AGMA
- Stop erosion of brand equity
- Stop loss of profit margins to brokers
- Educate your customers and maintain customer satisfaction
- Gain access to important benchmarking tools
- Gain access to best practices and knowledge exchange
- Gain access to proprietary research
- Attend quarterly meetings of the members and other AGMA
events
- Participate in committees and workshops
- Meet leading edge solution providers
- Interact with industry professionals with expertise in
business and channel compliance, brand protection, security
and investigations, operations, internal audit and finance,
manufacturing, sales and marketing, intellectual property,
and law.
The Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement is
a strategic initiative composed of leading high technology
companies committed to addressing the global impact of the
gray market and counterfeiting of goods on the technology
industry.
Manufacturer membership is currently comprised of high technology
manufacturers and is open to information technology, electronic
components, computer hardware and/or software, semiconductor
manufacturing, telecommunications, proprietary technology
manufacturing, and consumer’ electronics manufacturing.
Annual Manufacturer’s Membership Fee:
(i) First Region: Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000)
(ii) Each Additional Region: Three Thousand Dollars
(3,000)
(iii) Worldwide: Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000)
Membership Fee is due at the time of enrollment, and is
non-refundable and renewable on each member’s 12-month
anniversary. Annual Fee is required per year to remain in
good standing.
In addition, our trade association is interested in partnering
with associate members who currently own or hold the rights
to a trademark or service mark used to brand goods, services
or products (including publications) in industries other than
the technology industry and wish to advise the Corporation
with respect to gray market, counterfeit abatement and related
issues affecting these other industries.
Annual Associate’s Membership Fee:
(i) First Region: Eight Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($8,500)
(ii) Each Additional Region: Two Thousands Five
Hundred Fifty Dollars (2,550)
(iii) Worldwide: Twelve Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars
($12,750)
Founding members of the group are 3Com, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard,
and Nortel. Other internationally recognized brand name companies
have since joined the alliance as members. If your organization
is interested in learning more about how your company could
participate, please contact the Alliance for Gray Market and
Counterfeit Abatement .
AGMA Membership
Application (PDF Document)
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