Italy : phone and mobility specialist Aldinet expands its offer with its first MP3 player, T.Sonic 840 from Transcend (source : ChannelOnline Italia).
Italy : phone and mobility specialist Aldinet expands its offer with its first MP3 player, T.Sonic 840 from Transcend (source : ChannelOnline Italia).
Spain : swedish UTM vendor Clavister has appointed young VAD Seguridad10 as official distributor for Spain, Portugal and Mexico, where the company also has a subsidiary.
United Kingdom : telecoms VAD VCOMM has added Voipex to its list of vendors, claiming it would enable it to become a major actor on VoIP market (source : Computer Reseller News United Kingdom).
American high-availability specialist vendor SteelEye Technology has chosen newly created VAD iO Partner, based in Paris, to cover France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Maghreb.
Germany : thanks to its activities around its products, broadliner COS Distribution has been awarded Platinum Channel Provider title by processor vendor AMD. The distributor also becomes ATI Radeon Authorized Partner (source : ChannelPartner Deutschland).
Giant american Avnet does not stop with its hunger of acquisitions : it has just announced it was buying for about 60 millions of euros ACAL IT Solutions, a part of ACAL specialized in storage, secure networking and document management. This purchase should be completed before next December, should stock exchange and competition authorities give their consent.
ACAL IT Solutions is about 180-people strong and weights about 200 millions of euros, made through a network of about 2000 resellers. Under the brand Headway, the company was present in Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and United Kingdom. Through its Storage Networking division, it was present in Belgium, France, United Kingdom. Spareparts business EAF (closed in France and Netherlands some months ago, still operational in Germany and United Kingdom) does not seem to be included in the deal.
All these structures should be merged into Avnet Technology Solutions, most surely into Avnet Partner Solutions, its Value-Added division. In this case, this division will have to be created in France, where it does not exist yet… In Denmark and Sweden, the division is being built, after Magirus Infrastructure business purchase, some weeks ago : ACAL teams will then have to merge with former Magirus team. Hopefully, in both cases, existing structures are almost in the same neighbourhood, which means there will be few people leaving due to relocations.
Avnet will, through this purchase, gain a feet into new markets with new brands it did not sell at all before, especially in document management. Also, let us remind that in Russia, Prosoft-M is the local ACAL partner : it remains to be checked if this partnership will continue or will end with this purchase.
France : getting international and earning some investments from capital-risk funds means obligations towards partners, particularly in terms of financial transparency. That is why security VAD Exclusive Networks has hired Philippe Sanchez to become CFO of the company, in charge of finance, administration, logistics and legal affairs. Philippe was previously working for Tradingcom Europe, bought last May by telecom operator Neuf Cegetel.
Italy : historically focused on network and cabling, EDSlan is turning more and more towards security, through its new brands. And to manage all these, the distributor has hired Riccardo Manzi, appointed security product manager.
Poland : RRC’s retail division, DiFo, has been appointed authorized distributor for Blaupunkt GPS (source : Computer Reseller News Polska).
Netherlands : networking vendor Hawking Technologies has chosen broadliner ETC BV as new distributor for the country. ETC will in particular be responsible for the introduction of its Home Automation products early next year (source : ComputerPartner Nederland).
India : PC components specialist Supertron Electronics has been chosen by chinese vendor Foxconn as new distributor for the country (source : ChannelWorld India).
Spain : storage VAD Terasystem, subsidiary of the italian, has been appointed official Hitachi Data Systems distributor. This announcement is also valid for Portugal (source : Channel Partner España).
United Kingdom : game and EC specialist Gem Distribution has unveiled a new logo in support of the future announcement of new services and initiatives (source : MCV United Kingdom).
France : VAD Azlan has expanded its offer with Synerway backup appliances and Chip PC thin clients.
Germany : broadliner Tech Data has finally reshuffles its management team. Beside Els Demeester are appointed Simone Frömming (formerly Oracle Germany VP sales) as commercial director, Günther Schiesst (formerly distribution manager for FSC Germany) as managing director in charge of marketing and Marcus Haberschusz (previously working for S&T) as operations director (source : Computer Reseller News Deutschland).
Germany : storage VAD TIM AG has added Nearpoint mail archiving solution from Mimosa Systems to its catalog (source : IT Business Deutschland).
France : network and security VAD Exer Datacom has added finnish security vendor F-Secure to its offer, alongside Panda Security thanks to different positioning.
United Kingdom : projector vendor Christie has chosen video VAD Maverick as its local distributor. This is the first time in 25 years that the vendor uses a distributor in this country (source : Computer Reseller News United Kingdom).
Germany : storage VAD Computer Partner Handels has added Eonstor RAID subsystem from Infortrend to its catalog, beside Promise products it referenced some time ago (source : IT Business Deutschland).
Scandinavia : german VAD Infinigate, which already owned a subsidiary in Norway, has bought its competitor Nocom, which is present in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Nocom was meeting some difficulties since some time and, reflecting that, chosed to close its finnish and baltic subsidiaries last may (source : ChannelPartner Deuschland).
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