Hotlamps has landed
Maverick’s lamp-dedicated division, Hotlamps, has finally opened its first offices in Continental Europe, with a few months delay. First covered countries are Belgium and the Netherlands. France and Spain, which were promised in Q4/08, do still not have their own office, albeit local domains names have been reserved.
Dell takes the Metro
France : cash-and-carry Metro has added a selection of Dell PC and notebooks to its catalog.
ETC gets secured
Netherlands : broadliner ETC has been chosen by IBM ISS to become its new distributor (source : ChannelWorld Nederland).
A second distributor for Infocus
Poland : beside broadliner Tech Data, videoprojector vendor Infocus has chosen projection screen vendor Kauber (Exus company) to distribute its products in the country. Exus may very well be more efficient to push Infocus products in the country, as it is dedicated to video-projection market (source : Computer Reseller News Polska).
Cash and carry : a winning formula
Sweden : after a first successfull try near its main office in Göteborg, supplies specialist Isolda has decided to open a second cash-and-carry in Solna, near Stockholm (source : IT-Branschen Sverige).
More UPS for Ingram Micro
Italy : broadliner Ingram Micro has expanded its UPS offer with Eaton products (source : BitCity Italia).
A distributor for Invea-Tech
Czech Republic : Czech network monitoring vendor Invea-Tech has chosen network and security VAD VUMS Datacom as a distributor (source : Channel World Cesko).
New manager for OCS in Novosivirsk
Russia : Natalia Malishko replaces Petr Peliavin as new manager for OCS Novosibirsk branch. Petr does not leave the company but gets back as manager of Perm branch (source : Astera Rossiya).
Trend Micro and Westcon to part ways
United Kingdom : Trend Micro and distributor Westcon Security are parting company in the UK after admitting their quest to infiltrate Cisco dealers has largely failed. The anti-virus vendor granted Westcon access to its full portfolio in November 2007, alongside incumbents Sphinx, Computerlinks, Ingram Micro and Blue Solutions. The aim was to grab share from Cisco dealers that bought from the distributor’s Comstor arm (source : Computer Reseller News United Kingdom).
A new telecom operator for Herweck
Germany : telephony specialist Herweck has signed a distribution partnership with virtual operation Weissfunk. This company is specialized into providing mobile phone prepaid contracts to companies and individuals who have a negative credit information (source : Computer Reseller News Deutschland).
