News Romania

CPS signs with Duophon
2012-02-02
Germany : telecom trader Communication Partner Sales has expanded its portfolio with Duophon modular telephone conferencing sets, which is compatible with all telephone devices.

Asbis in partnership with Fujitsu
2012-02-01
Romania : broadliner Asbis has concluded a distribution agreement with Fujitsu Technology Solutions, the third IT services supplier worldwide and number 1 in Japan, as part of its development strategy. Through this partnership, ASBIS Romania will offer to its reselling partners products from the entire Fujitsu range, from mobile and desktop PCs, to workstations, servers, IT storage and peripheral solutions, both from the consumer range and the commercial one. Following this agreement, Asbis is extending its portfolio with new A-Brand products, which respond to various user requirements concerning functionality, quality and price of notebooks, desktop PCs, servers and other equipment. These products open new business opportunities for ASBIS partners, enabling them to approach a wider range of customers and to offer competitive products in different areas of interest.

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.

Hama controls heating with Xavax
2012-01-19
Accessory vendor and distributor Hama has extended its household brand Xavax into the Internet with MAX!, an intelligent heating control. MAX! can be programmed easily in just minutes using a control portal on the Internet, and allows users to reduce easily their heating costs by up to 30 % without sacrificing a bit of comfort. Xavax MAX! is available through Hama offices in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.