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Swedish audio brand Jays Group has partnered with distributor Aqipa, one of the leading retailers of consumer electronics and related accessories in the DACH region. The agreement covers Jays’ current and future product range including a dozen SKUs from the a-JAYS, u-JAYS and upcoming products. Aqipa’s experience as a consumer electronic retail specialist stretches back over 25 years. Aqipa focuses on the distribution and marketing of premium accessory products in the consumer electronics sector.
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Xiaomi and ABC Data open Mi Store in Warsaw
Global tech brand Xiaomi, in cooperation with its local distribution partner ABC Data, has opened an authorised Mi Store in the Arkadia shopping centre in Warsaw, Poland. On the first day of its operation, the shop was visited by 2800 customers. On 12th May the Warsaw Mi Store, along with Polish online shop Mi-home.pl sold almost 1000 Xiaomi devices.
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Rashi Peripherals holds annual review event
India-based distributor Rashi Peripherals held a two-day annual business review (ABR) conference in Mumbai. The event gathered Rashi Peripherals’ senior team from across the country to evaluate performance during the last 12 months and to outline the company’s future development vision. Krishna Choudhary, co-founder, and director at Rashi Peripherals, speaking at the event, stated: “The previous year was indeed tough as the industry went through a lot of turns and twists post-GST regime.”
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ALSO launches new financing unit
Distributor ALSO Group is expanding its range of financing and services with the launch of a new leasing company, ALSO Financial Services. The new offering for resellers extends ALSO’s services portfolio. Previously, customer leasing inquiries were referred to external partners, but now, customers can receive new, expanded financing solutions as part of a single offer. This also guarantees faster response times and a flexible, broad offering, according to ALSO.
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Tech Data reseller rides credit elevator to top floor
Distributor Tech Data has seen one of its UK customers reach the new £1m (US$1.36m) top line of its credit elevator programme. Tech Data claims that this underlines the need for the scheme and how effective it can be in giving businesses the ability to step up to height limits without having to go through repeated reassessments. The reseller concerned had been on the previous accelerator programme but stepped up to the new scheme when it was launched in February.
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Distributor Exertis plans to start distributing a wide range of core electrical products in the UK. Established and emerging vendors will be on-boarded in the coming weeks. The category will sit within Exertis’ consumer business unit and will be headed up by Harriet Croft who has joined from Argos. Exertis will initially focus on the small domestic appliance (SDA) and electronic personal care (EPC) categories.
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CMS Distribution sales exceed US$600m in 2017
Storit Limited, the holding company of CMS Distribution, boosted sales 38% in calendar 2017 to hit US$606.5m with pre-tax profits up 40% year-on-year at US$23.5m – a pre-tax profit margin of 3.9%. Frank Salmon, founder and CEO of Storit, said: “In February 2017, we were delighted to welcome TNS Connect into the Group. The TNS team are experts in emerging consumer technologies with an impressive portfolio of vendors and customers stretching worldwide. This acquisition has allowed CMS to expand into the Asia Pacific region as we continue our global growth trajectory.”
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DNS President Dmitry Alexeev confirmed to deliver GameChanger keynote at DISTREE Russia 2018
DISTREE Russia has confirmed that leading retailer DNS will deliver a GameChanger keynote presentation at this year’s 15th anniversary event, which takes place in Moscow on May 30th to June 1st, 2018. Dmitry Alexeev, President, DNS Group of Companies, will deliver the keynote presentation entitled: ‘Does the Digital Channel have a Future?’ The presentation will cover the evolution of digital channels in Russia, exploring possible scenarios for future development, assessing the risks and opportunities for future business development.
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Arrow Electronics adds Tenable rights across EMEA
Arrow Electronics has announced an EMEA distribution agreement with Tenable to distribute the company’s cybersecurity products. In 2017, Tenable launched Tenable.io, the first cyber exposure platform to provide visibility into any asset on any computing platform, including public cloud environments, and purpose-built applications for vulnerability management, container security and web application scanning.
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Nuvias adds pan-European rights for FireEye
Nuvias, the fast-growing VAD, has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with FireEye, the intelligence-led security company. Nuvias will aim to play a key role in driving further adoption of the FireEye product portfolio. The agreement is initially focused on markets in the UK and Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and the Netherlands. It will eventually cover the whole of Europe. FireEye is a major addition to the growing Nuvias security practice.
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