Kelway has bought fellow London reseller Repton Holdings Plc for an undisclosed sum.

Greg Carlow is staying on as Repton's CEO, and the firm will trade as a division of Kelway.

Repton specialises in enterprise IT and has earned channel badges from IBM, Sun, Cisco and HP. The company brings £40m turnover and 70 staff to the table, to take Kelway's annual sales to £180m. The combined organisation employs 350 staff in seven regional offices, making it comfortably one the UK's biggest channel businesses.

The takeover follows Kelway's acquisition of HP and services house Panacea [1] in February this year.

Kelway was founded in 1990 and claims to be the UK's fastest growing reseller. The firm is aiming for £250m+ turnover within three years.®

Links

1. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/02/27/panacea_hp_reseller/

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