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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.

ADS on the Silver Peak
2012-02-01
Africa : France-based network and security VAD ADS has been chosen by WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak as its official distributor for the whole African continent.

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.

Esquire launches its virtual reseller network
2012-01-27
South Africa : broadliner Esquire has launched a virtual reseller network (VRN). The company hopes to link 2000 of its estimated 12000 resellers by the end of 2012. The VRN allows resellers to get virtual access to the entire Esquire stockholding, which is updated directly to the reseller's Web site at regular intervals – often as frequently as every three minutes. Currently, up to 5 resellers sign in every day, which allow Esquire to be confident with its goal of 2000 resellers signes within a year.