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David Grant appointed to Senior Vice President Europe, Westcon Group
2010-08-24
Networking, convergence, security and mobility VAD Westcon has been promoted David Grant to senior vice president, Europe. He will continue reporting directly to Westcon Group President and CEO, Dean Douglas. In his new role, Grant will have primary responsibility for the continued growth Westcon Group's European business, including its European strategy, human resources and legal organizations, supporting the expansion strategy in the Nordics, the Baltics and Southern Europe of the company. David Grant has been with Westcon Convergence for three years and was previously CEO of European distributor Crane before its acquisition by Westcon Group in 2007. Prior to his role at Crane, Grant spent 14 years in a variety of senior level positions with Canon UK Ltd.

Barthe enters IT market
2010-03-25
Cebit 2010/France : created in 1927, Barthe is an historical vendor on foreign language learning products. It was among the newcomers on Cebit, with a booth on Planet Reseller. The company was presenting there its newborn product, Duplicator. This product ought to be the cheaper USB stick autonomous duplicator. It exists in two models, of 21 and 35 ports which are sold €699 and €899 excl. VAT. Duplicator has been created following a recurrent demand from teachers – the usual Barthe's market – which were looking for a simple solution to duplicate content for their students. In France, it fits perfectly well in current IT equipment State program for Digital School. The company is testing IT market through its presence on Cebit. According to Stéphanie Kabela, export sales manager of Barthe, Duplicator has met a huge interest from Cebit visitors : « two of them have even signed firm orders », she says. Many contacts have been made over whole Europe, with resellers wishing to sell the product, or to use it for their own use or for service providing. Everywhere, distribution network remains to be built.