CEO : Mr Tony Jephcott General manager : Mr Sally Holdcroft Sales director : Mr Jayesh Batavia
Information
Creation year : 1990 Company registration number : 05656786 Indirect turnover : 100% Specialist : POS and AIDC Main brands : Datalogic, Intermec, Omron, Psion, Tagsys Clients : Associations, consultants, corporate resellers, dealers, industrials, installers, IT consulting and service providers, mail-order resellers, semi-distributors, service providers, software developers, software editors, specialized resellers, systems integrators, VAR
News
Bluestar hires new CFO for European operations
2012-02-24
American ADC, mobility, POS and RFID specialist BlueStar has announced that Manel Baranera has joined the company as CFO for European operations (that is, currently, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom). As CFO, Manel will lead the company's European controllership, manage BlueStar's European investments and capital structure and offer insight into the development of future financial plans affecting the European region. He will also oversee BlueStar's European budgets and forecasting, cultivate and maintain credit line relationships and help fuel projected growth across Europe for 2012 and into the future. Mr. Baranera was previously CFO at Impuls ID Distribution as well, handling structured and managed financials for six companies in five countries. Manel Baranera will work from BlueStar's Barcelona office.
BlueStar expands channel tradeshow offerings with Vartech UK 2012 event
2012-02-20 United Kingdom : DC, POS, RFID and digital signage specialist BlueStar is adding a new location to its VARTECH channel tradeshow offerings with the all-new VARTECH UK event. This one-day tradeshow will feature all the elements vendors and VARs have come to expect from VARTECH: networking and business development on the CodeZone show floor, premiere educational and training opportunities, and the potential to drive incremental new business throughout the year. Scheduled for Wednesday, 21 March 2012 at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham, VARTECH UK will be an opportunity for vendors and regional VARs to connect with one another on an individual level and get the latest channel and industry information in a single day of networking and education.
Blackroc Distribution becomes BlueStar UK Distribution
2012-01-25 United Kingdom : ADC, mobility, POS, RFID, digital signage and security specialist BlueStar has announced that recently acquired Blackroc Distribution is now part of BlueStar Europe's operations, and is adopting the corporate name of BlueStar UK Distribution Ltd. Despite the name change, many of the business components that made Blackroc Distribution one of the largest and most respected distributors of ADC technology in the UK will remain the same for their clients. The current service and sales support professionals will become part of the growing international BlueStar team. "We will work to nuture and maintain current partner relationships in the region," said Sally Holdcroft, BlueStar UK's General Manager, "as well as develop and grow new partnerships. We are so excited about all the new benefits BlueStar will bring to the region."
BlueStar adds a marketing manager to increase its development
2012-01-23
AIDC and POS specialist BlueStar has unveiled one addition to its EMEA marketing management team. Ricard Ferrer has joined BlueStar as the first EMEA marketing manager, overseeing marketing and business development efforts across the entire region. Mr Ferrer has a background in technology product management and more than a decade of experience in marketing and design management. He also has extensive channel expertise for ID card printers as well as ADC, RFID and security technology solutions. He will be based in the offices of Bluestar in Spain and work directly with all Bluestar local marketing managers in the EMEA region.
