MTU closes its doors
Norway : a few years after leaving France, Norwegian telephony specialist MTU has gone bankrupt. A doubt seems to subsist about who owns the majority of its Danish subsidiary, while German subsidiary has changed its manager in January. It is therefore yet unknown which fate this subsidiary, as well as the Swedish one, will be (source : Computer Reseller News Danmark and ComputerWorld Norge).
Palo Alto extends its partnership with Exclusive Networks
France : already distributing Palo Alto firewalls in Italy, Portugal and Spain, Exclusive Networks has succeeded into expanding its partnership with the vendor to France.
Elko becomes official distributor of In WIN in the Baltic States
ELKO Grupa JSC, Latvia’s biggest enterprise and one of the leading distributors of IT products and components in the Eastern Europe, has become the official distributor of “In Win” (producer of computer cases and power supply units) products in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Some UPS for World Driver
PC components and peripherals World Driver, which is based in Spain and owns a sales office in Italy, has signed a distribution partnership with UPS vendor Inverter (source : TAI Noticias del Canal España).
Some Altos for Ingram Micro
Netherlands : broadliner Ingram Micro becomes the third authorized distributor beside ETC and Tech Data to distribute Acer Altos servers (source : ChannelWorld Nederland).
A new president for Optimus
Poland : for the third time in less than 1 one year, broadliner Optimus welcomes a new president : after Tomasz Lewandowski, who left last August, and interim Joanna Horoszko, Wiesław Skrobowski has taken recently his functions (source : Computer Reseller News Polska).
Elmat goes wireless with Aruba
Italy : networking VAD Elmat has expanded its wireless offer with specialist Aruba (source : Channel Insider Italia).
Lanit stops distribution
Ukraine : system integrator Lanit has decided to stop its distribution activity, known under Lanit-IV Trading, to focus on more cash-generation activities (source : Channel Partner Ukraine).
Entrepreneur backs distributor 802 Global
United Kingdom : wireless specialist distributor 802 Global is looking to bolster its headcount and accelerate revenue growth after securing a £1m investment from entrepreneur David Hammond. Tim Close, managing director of 802 Global, said that the investment would help bolster technical, sales and marketing resources, as well as improve its stockholding capabilities (source : Computer Reseller News United Kingdom).
DigitTrade enters Actebis
Germany : broadliner Actebis Peacock has expanded its offer with the whole line of CE and IT products from DigitTrade, including external hard drives, DVB-T tuners or notebook cases, whose it becomes the first distributor in the country (source : ChannelPartner Deutschland).
