Blue River Systems gets insolvent
France : regional broadliner Blue River System is meeting more and more difficulties, as shipments have been interrupted by its carriers, because of failed payments which brought the company into insolvency. Activity was anyway slow in the last weeks, because of a lack of cash for product purchases which brought the safeguard procedure, opened at the beginning of June. Even more : May and June wages are not to bepaid before the end of July and customers have the greatest difficulties to reach their interlocutors. According to some of them, Blue River System management was waiting for its insurance company to pay compensation for last summer disaster, which caused €1m damage, before being forced into insolvency… (source : Channel News France)
ASBIS gets official with Belkin
Russia : broadliner ASBIS has been appointed official distributor by accessories vendor Belkin. It will distribute its full line of products through its reseller network (source : Computer Reseller News Rossiya).
Metra signs distribution deal with HP
Middle East : HP has signed Metra Computer as a distributor for its Imaging and Printing Group and its Personal Systems Group for several countries in the Middle East ; Metra will take on the IPG line for Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Yemen, and the PSG line, which includes notebooks and desktops for Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, UAE and Yemen (source : ITP Middle East).
Adweb Techno Trade to distribute Vasco
India : Vasco Data Security, specializing in authentication products, has signed a distribution agreement with security VAD Adweb Techno-Trade. Adweb Techno Trade will distribute Vasco’s range of authentication solutions consisting of Digipass, Idenikey, Vacman middleware and Digipass packs (source : Computer Reseller News India).
Hattelco fights viruses with Kaspersky
Sweden : broadliner Hattelco has expanded its offer with Kaspersky security solutions (source : IT Branschen Sverige).
Comercialfoto represents Elecom in Portugal
Portugal : Japanese accessories vendor Elecom has chosen photo specialist Comercialfoto as representative in the country (source : PC Guia Portugal).
ASPlenium manages assets with Pytheas
France : service specialist ASPlenium has signed a distribution partnership with Pytheas. This vendor is specialized in asset management and help desk tools, whose ASP and SaaS versions ASPlenium will distributed through its reseller network.
Icos gets exclusive with NetApp
Italy : storage vendor NetApp has decided to keep security and storage VAD Icos as exclusive partner in the country, thus dropping bigger names like Avnet or Bell Micro (source : ChannelCity Italia).
Enta signs Billion
United Kingdom : Telford based broadliner EntaTech has taken on network vendor Billion, and will handle the company’s networking products in the UK going forward (source : PCR United Kingdom).
Michael Telecom on the phone with Weissfunk
Germany : telephony specialist Michael Telecom has added Weissfunk telecom subscription to its offer (source : Computer Reseller News Deutschland).
