Acal has teamed with supply chain systems specialist ByBox to optimise the delivery services it offers customers in the IT sector.
But the approach is also likely to be extended to Acal's electronics businesses in due course.
Nu Horizons is soon to offer the latest Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGAs.
Spartan 6 will also be a headline feature of Avnet Silica's next X-Fest event which takes place in the UK on November 3 at Silverstone.
A market downturn is not the most obvious time for a distributor to take on the extra cost burden of new product lines.
Yet, Ismosys, RS, EBV and Digi-Key are amongst those distributors which looked at the figures coming out of the European market in the last couple of months and signed new lines to address specific markets.
Components Bureau believes at a time of reduced inventory levels in the supply chain there is a greater emphasis on distributors to ensure that their sales turnaround times don't suffer.
With inventory in the supply chain at historically low levels there is a real hope that there will soon be an upturn.
But when it comes will the upturn be sustainable?
Arrow's lighting portfolio now includes specialist power supplies from Lightech.
2001, the Stevenage based component distributor, has signed an agreement with Via Technologies to sell its embedded processor platforms for the UK and Ireland.
The power supply manufacturer wants to target the test bench and has signed a distribution agreement with test and measurement specialist Aspen Electronics.
A surprise conference call from Intel involving Anand Chandrasekher, general manager of the chip firm's Ultra Mobility group has fuelled speculation that Intel is to announce a design- in with a big-name handset firm.
And the name in the frame is none other than Nokia.
ACW Technology has strengthened its management team with the appointment of big-hitter, Grant Bennett as manufacturing director.
Bennett is a significant appointment for the Southampton-based contract manufacturer as he formerly held the position of general manager at Toshiba's Plymouth-based TV plant.
Camden Electronics has acquired Boss Enclosures, the Suffolk-based manufacturer and distributor of plastic and metal enclosures, 19in racks and cabinets.
Point 35 Microstructures has signed its first distribution partner in China.
The distributor, WESI Technology will provide sales and service support for the Scottish firm's memsstar range of MEMS process equipment.
Anglia has signed up the important analogue chip line of Intersil for the UK and Ireland.
I read the news that Deepstream Technologies had finally called in the administrators at the behest of some of its creditors with great saddness and some anger.
If there ever was a case for government money being used to rescue a cash-strapped high-tech start-up with much potential, this is it.
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