American distributor Stampede opens a UK office, headed by Stampede founder and CEO Mark Wilkins.

Before founding Stampede nearly 20 years ago, Wilkins served as the Managing Director of UK-based Maverick Presentation Products, Ltd. In 1997, Wilkins saw the opportunity to bring the Maverick business model to the United States and he formed Stampede, which is today the oldest and largest value-added distributor of pro AV solutions in No. America, serving customers throughout the United States, Canada, and Latin America.

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InFocus comes to ISE 2016 on the back of its acquisition of VIDCO, a systems provider of multimedia room and building solutions headquartered in Frankfurt.

This acquisition follows recent acquisitions of Avistar and Jupiter Systems, and is expected to provide new resources for InFocus, its EMEA channel partners and its end users.

This March, InFocus will open an EMEA Executive Briefing Center and Training Academy in Frankfurt. Channel partners will gain access to a state-of-the-art facility to preview and bring InFocus customers to see their Read more...

Avnet sets to bolster its position in EMEA as it acquires Orchestra Service GmbH, the German EMC-based storage solution and services distributor, for an undisclosed sum.

The focus of Orchestra is on backup and recovery, but the distributor also has investments in cloud computing, big data and information management. It records 2014 revenues worth $95 million, and will be integrated into the Avnet EMEA business.

Following a 10-month long independent probe into fiscal 2011, 2012 and 2013 results Tech Data reveals the delayed numbers for the 9 months ending 31 October 2013-- with results only positive through 2012 acquisition SDG.

The March 2013 discovery of errors in the "vendor accounting" of UK subsidiary Computer 2000 forced the IT distribution giant to rip up 3 years of results. Further probing found further "improper vendor accounting, improper use of manual journal entries and improper recognition of foreign currency exchange transactions" in the accounts of two European countries and a Latin America operation.

At first glance Tech Data results for 9-month fiscal 2014 look positive, with sales growing by 5% Y-o-Y to $18.8 billion. However, remove the $1.6bn generated by SDG and sales actually fall by -5%. The difference is equally stark in the fiscal Q3 (ending October 2013) numbers, with sales falling by -7% Y-o-Y if one eliminates SDG sales.