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Avnet welds services tentacles into one mighty arm

Octupus looks to get some knuckle in its punch

Avnet sales bigwig Bryant to hop off after Easter

Magirus slurp out of the way, now she's on her way out

Enormo-distie Avnet's profits nosedive FORTY PER CENT

The bigger they are, the harder they completely go to pieces

Avnet TS confirms EMEA exec line-up

Rejigs structure as it digests Magirus buy
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Avnet Technology Solutions swallows Pepperweed

Avnet Technology Solutions has swallowed Pepperweed Consulting, an HP Software Elite Partner Stateside. This is the latest acquisition Avnet TS has made this year after snapping up enterprise distie Magirus and minnow solutions providers including Mattelli and Ascendant Tech. IT enterprise management and integration firm …
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Avnet TS swallows bite-sized Mattelli

Avnet Technology Solutions has devoured IT estate management small fry Mattelli as it builds out a services portfolio. This comes just a week after Avnet TS acquired enterprise distie Magirus and some months after it took over IBM reseller and consultancy Ascendant Technologies. Cheshire-based Mattelli developed the UNITY …
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EC happy for Avnet to gobble down Magirus

Competition authorities not concerned about resulting mega Euro distie

Avnet Technology Solutions in UK revamp

Don't just use us when you feel like it, we want a relationship
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Avnet gobbles Magirus, aiming to deliver swollen offerings

Avnet Inc is consuming pan-European distributor Magirus Group for an undisclosed sum. The agreement was made public today - just hours after it emerged that Ingram Micro is splashing $850m to acquire BrightPoint ($650m in cash and assuming $190m worth of debts). Stuttgart-based Magirus offloaded its $500m enterprise hardware …
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Avnet waves farewell to John Toal ahead of Magirus gobble

Avnet Technology Solutions (TS) is starting to restructure ahead of its acquisition of Magirus with long serving director Sukh Rayat replacing John Toal at the top of the UK organisation. Distie veteran Toal, who was in charge of the operation for two years and four months, joined Avnet when it acquired Bell Microproducts in …

Avnet devours reseller BrightStar Partners

'We're buying it for the services, don't ya know'

Avnet looking to cut costs AGAIN

Fiscal Q1 profits slide by nearly 30 per cent

Avnet CEO: Sales flat, profit down... but 'outlook' is better

800 staff shown the door as cost-cutting takes effect

Avnet 'evaluating resource commitments' as times stay tough

'Resource commitments' means your job

Avnet TS swallows Ascendant Technology

IBM VAR and consultancy part of distie's cloud plan

Avnet fears possible $73m bill as US Customs probe deeper

Shoves $10m in goodwill tip jar, hopes for the best

Avnet TS sales slide but operating income up

EMEA boosted by cutting costs and unprofitable business

Nicked sensitive Avnet server disks sparks ICO probe

Watchdog sniffs 'potential data breach' at distie
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Avnet sales dampened by slippery EMEA market

The integration of acquisitions and a "tepid recovery" in the local tech market saw Avnet EMEA sales slide in Q4 but less challenging conditions in the rest of its world-wide operations more than made up for the dip. The distributor pushed up global revenues 32.6 per cent to $6.9bn for the period ended 3 July, while organic …

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Joe Fay

Server boss comes to London, become hostage to fortune
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Tim Ayling

Er, what does that mean? Anything you want it to
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Eddie Pacey

Get your money up front if you want money up front

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