ABM not Apple distributor anymore?

David George-Cosh’s article “Apples innovation keeps it streets ahead”, in The National today includes this passage:

““They don’t tell us anything, even though we work directly with them to sell products in the region,” said Nathalie Khouri, the marketing manager for Arab Business Machine, an authorised Apple dealer that supplies about 30 retail stores in the GCC region.”

So did ABM change from distributor to dealer and we didn’t know about it? They’re still “Apple authorized distributor” on their web site. They’re dealers through iStyle so perhaps that’s what it’s referring to but that ignores the distribution part.