If you thought a test company with a product range as broad as Tektronix could not identify new product areas to fill, then think again.
Continue reading How many scopes does one company want?.
April 2010 Archives
Avnet's Q3 figures which saw sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa jump by 38% is the first good news the European distribution industry has had for almost two years.
Continue reading Distribution market is coming back, look at Avnet's numbers.
Graham Maggs has joined Mouser as its European supplier marketing director.
Continue reading Maggs joins Mouser from Bourns.
RS Components has extended the scope of its range of embedded development boards and modules through a tie-up with ARM's online microcontroller development tool known as mbed.
Continue reading RS joins with ARM for web-based embedded design.
If the performance of the manufacturing sector is the most important indicator of an economy on the mend, then things are looking promising.
Two days after the official figure for growth in GDP for the last quarter was increased to +0.4% the manufacturing sector gets a further shot in the arm.
UK manufacturing activity grew at a remarkably high rate in March, according to the purchasing managers' index (PMI).
The index reached 57.2 in March which was a better performance than expected.
The last time a month's output grew at that rate was 1994.
Similar upturns in manufacturing output were seen in German and France.
Happy Easter!
We all knew it would happen and now it has. The government's recession-busting car scrappage scheme ended yesterday.
Continue reading Automotive suppliers are on their own now....
