Distribution

A senior executive at Avnet has indicated that the European distribution industry is ripe for business consolidations and further acquisitions are likely

Distributor TDC sees business grow 30% in the last 12 months as it benefits from the boom in embedded GSM

Distributor Anglia donates 32-bit development kits to the University of Glamorgan

UK distribution firms Acal and Deltron add their names to firms on the acquisition trail in mainland Europe

UK distributor launches a military and obsolete division to increase support for long-life products

Component distributor still mulling acquisition options which would give the firm a boost in mainland Europe

Component distributor 2001 continues its expansion, signing US firm LSI/CSI

Gary Kibblewhite has stepped down as chairman of distributors association AFDEC after 19 years

Firm has identified China as the next big opportunity for its catalogue and online distribution business

Buyer Avnet is likely to run Memec as an independent company alongside EBV Elektronik, WBC and Silica