Ingram drops Mustek
Germany : in a move to rationalize its vendor linecard, broadliner Ingram Micro has decided to end its partnership with scanner and CE vendor Mustek. Disappointed, the vendor hopes its current partnership with COS will compensate the loss of the other distributor (source : ChannelPartner Deutschland).
CCD to pull out of PC and print distribution
United Kingdom : broadliner CCD has announced plans to pull out of PC and print distribution to focus on storage, servers, software and services. In a growing sign that low margin business is no longer attractive CCD wrote to customers pointing out that the PC and print markets were commoditised (source : Microscope United Kingdom).
A gift for Brack resellers for Xmas
Switzerland : any reseller buying a LCD TV from the Swiss broadliner Brack will get for free a 4-year warranty, providing the chosen model has a diagonal bigger than 82 cm (32 in).
More Toshiba for Focelda
Italy : broadliner Focelda has extended its partnership with Toshiba to its newly built Consumer Product Division (including LCD TV and DVD/MP4 players and writers) (source : Channel Insider Italia).
Tech Data drives with MIO
Spain : broadliner Tech Data has expanded its GPS offer with MIO products. This partnership also expands to mobile phone through Tech Data specialist venture Brightstar (source : Channel Insider España).
Chenbro in Roma
Ukraine : PC component specialist Roma has bagged Chenbro PC and industrial cases (source : ChannelPartner Ukraina).
SES becomes Samsung’s National Distributor
India : Samsung Electronics has appointed SES as its national distributor for hard drives, in India. This tie up is done with the objective of making the product more accessible across the country, leveraging off the well known strength that SES holds in up country markets and metros (source : ChannelWorld India).
BioXS destroys data Absolute(ly)
Netherlands : security specialist BioXS International has signed a partnership with Canadian editor Absolute Software to distribute its remote data wiping utility ComputraceOne in the country (source : Computer Reseller News Nederland).
NSP goes bankrupt
France : regional broadliner NSP Informatique, which was based in Reims and reached a turnover of €15.8m in 2007, has gone bankrupt because of too many late payments.
More freedom for USB peripherals with NTP
Germany : CE and peripherals specialist NTP has added the USB Wireless extender from Gefen to its catalog (source : CE Business Deutschland).
