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Commtech Distribution to set up UK beachhead

Names channel veteran Mark Walker as boss

SCH Group prepares for life after distribution

Banks double digit-hike in sales and profits for fiscal 2012

IT distribution titan Tech Data to gobble UK's SDG for $350m

March of channel consolidation continues
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Sony distribution centre engulfed by fire

Sony Corp's compact discs and DVDs warehouse in Enfield, north London, was on fire throughout the night. The Japanese electronics giant may have been caught up in the riots that sporadically swept across London on a third consecutive night of trouble in the capital. However, the firm is yet to determine the cause of the blaze. …

Zycko shown door after Meraki Euro distie review

Meraki - which was recently swept off its feet by Cisco - has given distie Zycko the heave-ho and replaced it with Ingram Micro across Europe. The maker of wireless access points, switches and security appliances was acquired by Cisco in November for $1.2bn, and its new parent soon set about reviewing the channel line-up. Jon …
VMware's monster VM

VMware taps ex-Ciscoer as channel chief

The channel is the key to Virtzilla's impending vCloud Hybrid Service

RIM PlayBook trumps new iPad in UK channel sales - analyst

'As good as Apple's tab but half the price' Oh, BURN
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Microsoft: Brits, grab our Surface Pro ten-incher for satisfaction in May

Microsoft's Intel-powered Windows 8 Surface Pro laptop-tablet-thing will arrive in the UK within the next six weeks. But while Brits will be able to order the 10.6" touchscreen-keyboard hybrid direct from the software giant, companies in the IT distribution chain are unlikely to get their hands on pallets of the Pro until months …
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Mad Leo exit finally clears way for Blighty to love HP again

HP has finally halted the downward sales trend in distribution that dogged its UK operation for much of 2012. Figures from Context show that HP accounted for 22 per cent of the £1.8bn worth of tech shipped by distributors in Q1 2012, a share that steadily declined to 16 per cent by Q4. But Jeremy Davies, CEO at the Brit-based …

Administrator: 2e2 owed £412m to creditors when it went titsup

Well-known channel firms owed MEELLIONS

Slash A THIRD off Surface RT price or it's toast, Microsoft told

And actually sell it through the shops - who are you? Apple?

Surface Pro to hit Blighty priced 25% up on top-o-the-range iPad

'That's cos it replaces your current laptop+iPad combo'

Microsoft's UK OEM boss swaps Blighty for Singapore

With weather like this, who can blame him?

Ingram Micro wields axe in management rejig

Director of Advanced Solution Divison Jon Bunyard exits stage left

Enta Technologies consults m'learned friends after HMRC spat

Telford distie wound up by 'incorrect' winding-up order

Comparex posts single-digit margin returns for fiscal '13

Making a mint from software reselling? Uh, not quite

No UK date, no biz disties: Will Microsoft cock-up the Surface Pro too?

Office PC replacement not being sold to offices, say insiders

Tech distie Tech Data tears up last THREE years of profit numbers

IT distribution giant Tech Data has ripped up its financial results for the last three years after discovering errors in its UK subsidiary's accounts. The company revealed this morning it will recalculate the figures and publish new reports as a result of uncovering mistakes in "vendor accounting" by its Brit biz Computer 2000 …

Opinion

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Eddie Pacey

Does it do what it says on the tin? Credit insurance, that is
Funnel of cash. Credit: via SXC – http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Leonardini
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Dale Vile

Corporate decision-making's got nowt on non-techie MDs

Alexandre Mesguich

Cloud, virtualisation, mobile tech require fatter pipes

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