AJ Letizio Chooses FirstLight

ALBANY, NY, Sept. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstLight, a leading provider of fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud, and voice services to enterprise and carrier customers throughout the Northeast, announced today that A.J. Letizio Sales and Marketing, Inc. has selected FirstLight as the fiber-based Internet and hosted phone provider for its new Windham, New Hampshire corporate office.

A.J. Letizio is a leading sales agency for retail consumer packaged goods as well as foodservice and disposable goods. The company sells and markets all classes of food and non-food products to customers based in New England and Upstate New York. As brokers, the company serves mainstream foodservice companies, as well as K-12/school nutrition programs, convenience stores, and non foods/disposables and janitorial sectors.

With the trend in restaurants and grocery stores of securing food as fresh as possible and locally or authentically sourced, the company needs to stay in close contact with its customers and suppliers more than ever, explains Sandy Neals, Vice President, Finance and Technology. "That requires dependable, high-speed, low-latency Internet. That's an important factor to our success. We need to constantly update our suppliers, vendors, and customers regarding inventory and delivery at moment's notice."

The company has been in the midst of a multi-year renovation project which required them to raze their old building and build a new, 20,000-square-foot Enterprise Center, complete with a modern test kitchen. A .J. Letizio also purchased 40 new hosted phones from FirstLight. "We had to move to a temporary location during construction where FirstLight service was unfortunately not available," added Neals. "When it was time to move back to our new office, I needed to make sure that we had not only the required speed, but absolute reliability. Outages in my business are not acceptable. For that reason, we chose FirstLight."

Looking toward its future growth, A.J. Letizio may consider FirstLight services such as cloud or disaster recovery solutions for its growing business needs. The company has been a customer of FirstLight for nearly a decade.

"FirstLight is proud to have a food services marketing customer of the caliber of A.J. Letizio," says Matt Jancovic, FirstLight's Chief Revenue Officer. "The food services industry is increasingly global in scope, as customers look for exotic foods and expect timely delivery of fresh food, especially when a product's shelf life is measured in days if not hours. Meeting those high expectations requires reliable connectivity for coordination among suppliers, distributors, and marketers. A low-latency, reliable service is an essential ingredient that keeps them all connected."

About FirstLight

FirstLight, headquartered in Albany, New York, provides fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud and voice services to enterprise and carrier customers throughout the Northeast and mid-Atlantic connecting more than 9,000 locations in service with more than 30,000 locations serviceable by our more than 20,000-route mile network. FirstLight offers a robust suite of advanced telecommunications products featuring a comprehensive portfolio of high bandwidth connectivity solutions including Ethernet, wavelength and dark fiber services as well as dedicated Internet access solutions, data center, cloud and voice services. FirstLight's clientele includes national cellular providers and wireline carriers and many leading enterprises, spanning high tech manufacturing and research, hospitals and healthcare, banking and financial, secondary education, colleges and universities, and local and state governments.

To learn more about FirstLight, visit www.firstlight.net, or follow the company on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

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About A.J. Letizio

With origins dating back to 1912, A.J. Letizio Sales & Marketing is a professional sales and marketing agency serving the food and non-foods/disposable products industry in New England and New York. The company is located in Windham, NH, and operates separate Retail and Foodservice Divisions that deliver specialized service and expertise in various sectors as food brokers and non-food brokers.

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