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Timico snaps up London comms VAR Redwood

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Avaya and Mitel partner sells up to ISP group

09 Feb 2012

Coraid floats IPO strategy

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Ethernet SAN vendor rules out joining its rivals on the storage M&A bandwagon

02 Feb 2012

Avnet buys refurbished reseller Canvas

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Distribution giant boosts its remarketing offering with acquisition of UK, US and Dutch operator

01 Feb 2012

Dell uses soft touch on storage

Dell is pushing partners to sell a wider range of its products and vows not to pull rank on those that resist. Caroline Donnelly reports

23 Jan 2012

Misfiring Comet burns another £15m hole in owner's pocket

UK retailer's poor festive performance and mounting debt mean Kesa will have to pay up to £65m to offload it in two weeks' time

19 Jan 2012

Insight makes European hardware acquisition

VAR snaps up continental hardware reseller Inmac

12 Jan 2012

Riverbed gets sweet deal from Expand pick n' mix

WAN optimisation vendor confirms it has won race to acquire the IP of embattled rival, while being saddled with none of the liabilities

11 Jan 2012

Exclusive achieves “super VAD” status with German buy

Pan-European distributor follows up VADition acquisition with purchase of Münster-based distributor TLK

09 Jan 2012

TSG gets back in the black during robust FY11

Acquisitive VAR owned by Sage founder Graham Wylie posts solid annual numbers

21 Dec 2011

K3 steps up yuletide shopping spree

ERP reseller adds Microsoft Dynamics specialist Retail Systems Group to festive cart

20 Dec 2011

Maxima offloads ERP arm to K3 Retail

Loss-making VAR makes good on earlier pledge to sell off non-core business units

15 Dec 2011

Siptel looks to buy and build

Aggressive hosted/cloud and voice and data VAR is keen to start M&A activity after eight years' organic growth

14 Dec 2011

Watkins makes European purchase

Alan Watkins, former Cisco UK and Teksys boss and now head of private equity house Blackhawk Capital, snaps up Swiss and German subsidiaries of Glasshouse AG

12 Dec 2011

A year of living dangerously

Those who broke out their best guns in the fight for growth in 2011 may still be seeing strong results as we head towards 2012

12 Dec 2011

Integralis buys Secode from parent NTT

Managed security services player becomes a wholly owned subsidiary and gives firm greater clout in the Nordics

01 Dec 2011

Clearswift snapped up by investment firm

Web and email security player gets acquired and accrues three new directors

29 Nov 2011

HDD vendor mega-merger edges closer

Western Digital's buyout of Hitachi Global Storage Technology wins conditional backing from EU

24 Nov 2011

Storage Fusion outlines channel plans

ISV wants to use parent company's financial backing to fuel channel growth

21 Nov 2011

Accumuli eyes up next acquisition targets

Buy-and-build security reseller pinpoints SIEM as an area for investment

15 Nov 2011

Apple reseller Solutions Inc sells ISP unit to Gradwell

Top-level Mac partner offloads £435,000-worth of annual sales to Bath-based comms outfit

14 Nov 2011

APSU keen to woo clients left behind by top integrators

Newly formed channel player claims consolidation has estranged many mid-market customers

11 Nov 2011

Technology M&A activity drops in October

Latest Regent figures reveal total deal value of deals is down, but the market remains stable

11 Nov 2011

Many happy returns

With 35 years of business under its belt, CA is looking forward to the next three decades. Sara Yirrell takes a trip down memory lane with the vendor and discovers its future plans

11 Nov 2011

New Comet owner looks to protect jobs and stores

OpCapita has no plans for redundancies or 'significant' store closures following purchase of embattled retailer for £2

09 Nov 2011

CMS Computers acquired by VIP

£30m UK system builder sold to PC and components distributor

07 Nov 2011

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CRN Partner Connect 2012

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CRN's premier networking event is back on 17 May at the Ricoh Arena

Date: Thu 17 May 2012

CRN Fight Night 2012

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Channel fighters preparing to square up once more on 24 May

Date: Thu 24 May 2012

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