Noticias
Atomblock becomes ALSO Digital
2013-03-18
Netherlands: following the authorization of the Dutch antitrust board, German broadliner ALSO has acquired 51% of the shares of Micromedia-owned ESD specialist Atomblock, which in the process and as planned becomes ALSO Digital. Rowdy ten Hove, interviewed on Distree, explained us that "retail specialist Micromedia will supervise the business of ALSO Digital in the Benelux, while ALSO will focus remaining Europe", focusing more especially on the countries where ALSO is already present (Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland).
More ALSO for Asustek
2013-02-27
Scandinavia: already working together in Denmark and Finland, Asustek has decided to allow the Swedish and Norwegian offices of broadliner ALSO to distribute its notebooks and tablets.
More IBM for ALSO
2013-02-22
Norway: while having severed their links in Denmark, IBM has decided to strengthen its partnership with broadliner ALSO, which is now authorized to distribute its storage portfolio throughout its reseller network.
IBM drops ALSO
2013-02-12
Denmark: Big Blue has decided to reduce its local distributor stable down to three companies (VADs Arrow ECS and Pedab and broadliner Tech Data), dropping broadliner ALSO in the process. As an official reason, IBM says that the local market is not big enough to need as many distributors.
ALSO to acquire Alpha International ?
2013-01-17
Just a few days after the acquisition of download specialist Atomblock, German broadliner ALSO has opened negociations to acquire the Dutch group Saphin. This company owns the supply specialist Alpha International (which is present in France (now mainly a post address), Germany, the Netherlands (which effectively covers the French market) and the United Kingdom), 50% of the shares of a Dutch MPS provider named OSN (which will certainly be converted into the local ALSO MPS), the Dutch IT reseller Scholter Awalters and 60% of the shares of a plastic distributor named Coops Kunststoffen. No doubt the company was mainly chosen for Alpha International and OSN, which would allow ALSO to become the biggest distributor on the Dutch market.
