General manager : Mr Paul Roughley Sales director : Mr Kieron Reirdan Sales director : Mr Nick Preston Marketing director : Mr Paul Evison Division director : Mr Tony Howard Communication director : Mrs Gemma Nichols
Information
Creation year : 1997 Company registration number : 3371018 VAT identification number : GB 686 8557 62 Annual turnover 2010 : 38,25 M€ 2009 : 38,06 M€ 2006 : 95,00 M€ Indirect turnover : 100% National/regional/export split : 100/0/0 Specialist : Storage Main brands : Cibox, Edimax, Freecom, Hitachi, HP Clients : Assemblers, associations, central purchasing companies, corporate resellers, dealers, department stores, e-commerce, hypermarkets, mail-order resellers, multispecialists, outlets, semi-distributors, service providers, specialized resellers, specialized retailers, superstores, VAR Employees : 65 people
Services
Value added services Direct shipping to final client, e-commerce site, online order status checking
News
CCI finds an Energizer
2012-02-07 United Kingdom : storage specialist CCI Distribution has expanded its portfolio with battery and portable battery-powered devices from Energizer.
CMS Peripherals acquires CCI Distribution
2011-09-22
Irish storage distributor CMS Peripherals, which also owns an office in the United Kingdom, has acquired its competitor CCI Distribution for an undisclosed amount. As a result, CMS Peripherals becomes the UK and Ireland’s largest independent data storage distributor in terms of revenues, employees and brands sold, with bases in Ireland, northern and southern England. Commenting on the acquisition, Frank Salmon, founder and managing director of CMS Peripherals said: "we saw a great opportunity to buy a like-minded, successful distribution business that would offer our customers a broader range of storage solutions. The acquisition, which will be followed by another one next year, will also support our three-year business objective of 20% annual growth that would take us to turnover of €250M." The decision to buy CCI Distribution was based on several inherent synergies between the two organisations:
Both firms focus heavily on delivering exceptional customer service, a differentiating factor when competing with broadline distributors.
Their combined product portfolio has minimal overlap and addresses the entire spectrum of data storage needs of small, medium and large businesses.
Both organisations will benefit from the synergies of their combined buying power which translates into cost savings that can be passed onto customers, ensuring the businesses remain highly competitive.
CMS Peripherals will continue to run the business under the CCI Distribution brand. Paul Roughley will remain as managing director and he takes a seat on the board of the main CMS Peripherals’ holding company. A key change is that CCI Distribution will have access to CMS Peripherals’ extensive portfolio of storage brands, and vice versa.
A new sales director for CCI
2010-05-27 United Kingdom : storage specialist CCI Distribution has appointed Kevin Reirdon as sales director, in charge of the diversification of CCI's BU and the development of its storage range (source : PC Retail United Kingdom).
CCI locks Datastor into UK deal
2010-05-07 United Kingdom : storage specialist CCI Distribution has added Data Storage Group’s backup and deduplication software tools to its data management portfolio. The deal, which will see CCI distributing DataStor's products to reseller and systems integrators across the UK, forms part of the firm’s wider aim to be a provider of a wider range of backup solutions (source : Computer Reseller News United Kingdom).
