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Ingram Micro opens a new DC/POS subsidiary
2012-02-03
Italy : broadliner Ingram Micro has opened a new DC/POS office in Milano. Ingram Micro Italia, divisione DC/POS currently counts people, Key Account Manager Andrea Negroni and Sales Specialist Angelo Brenna, and will focus on the usual brands of DC/POS in Europe, among which Datalogic, Datamax-O'Neil, Intermec, Motorola Solutions and Zebra. Italy was the last major European country where Ingram Micro was present and did not own a DC/POS office.

Inuit manages mobile fleets with Dialogs Software
2012-02-01
Sweden : network and security VAD Inuit has started the distribution of Smartman mobile device management solution from German editor Dialogs Software in the country.

EET in RAID with United Digital
2012-01-31
Danish broadliner and sparepart specialist EET has acquired British RAID server vendor United Digital and its Mac-oriented brand Hive. The goal is to push its high-end products out of the United Kingdom. Thus, United Digital servers should be available soon to resellers in Europe through EET offices in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, while Hive products were already distributed in all countries.

Ingram Micro names Alain Monié CEO
2012-01-30
Broadliner Ingram Micro has promoted Alain Monié to CEO. Monié, who will also retain his current title of president, succeeds Gregory Spierkel, who will remain at the company until April 15, 2012, to assist in the management transition. Monié, a 61yo French national, is currently the company's president and COO. He joined Ingram Micro as executive vice president in January 2003 and was appointed president of the APAC region a year later. He was promoted to president and COO of the corporation in August 2007 and resigned three years later to become chief executive officer of April Management, a Singapore-based pulp and paper industry giant. On Nov. 1, 2011, Monié returned to Ingram Micro in his current role, re-assuming his prior responsibilities : a nearly flawless engagement for someone who was groomed to be Spierkel's successor. Before Ingram Micro, Monié was the head of LATAM operations at Honeywell International and APAC operations at Allied Signal, where he led the company's expansion into China and India. Monié has been a member of the board of directors of Amazon since November 2008, and was recently elected to the board of Ingram Micro in November 2011.

Two new distributor for Seagate
2012-01-26
After MCR in Spain and Siewert und Kau in Germany, hard drive vendor Seagate has further increased its distributor stable in the EMEA region through the appointment of broadliner Gandalf Data in Sweden and ECS Distribution in Egypt. Like the two first, Gandalf and ECS will distribute all Seagate internal and external hard drives, including GoFlex et Expansion external models, BlackArmor NAS, Barracuda, Momentus, Cheetah, Constellation and Savvio internal hard drives and Pulsar SSD.