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.
Is the worst of the recession over for the manufacturing sector?
The gloom has certainly lifted a little due largely to encouraging output figures in April.
Ismosys has signed an agreement with Lineage Power to represent the US-based company's power conversion products in the UK and Ireland.
No one should be banking on the smart meter market to pull the industry out of the downturn any time soon.
The passive component market seems to be in a rare state of equilibrium at the moment, with supply and demand pretty much in balance, though at a fairly low level, writes Felix Corbett from Abacus Group in a recent article in Electronics Weekly.
Digi-Key has added the industrial battery line of EnerSys to its linecard.
Arrow Electronics has made its latest product catalogue available for download from its website.
There's an interesting article on new European rules affecting the use of energy-efficient lamps, which has been published on the EBV Elektronik website.
Premier Farnell is offering an online service which is intended to allow design engineers to search the distributor's website for parts while still working within their CAD design environment.
Gina Citroni has taken full control of Amplicon following the decision of managing director, Tony Gorbold to sell his shareholding in the Brighton-based company.
