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Euro sales growth boosts Westcoast in solid 2011

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Distributor's annual numbers show top and bottom lines holding firm in "extremely competitive marketplace"

29 May 2012

Synaxon adds Westcoast to partner list

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Dealer group adds more than 133,000 products to its armoury after tie-in with Theale-based distributor

24 May 2012

Westcoast hails UC push

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Distributor set to hold more dedicated events as it guns for a slice of the $16.6bn EMEA UC market

17 May 2012

Westcoast offers Mini sweetener to partners

Distributor has a Mini Cooper up for grabs for resellers who renew their Microsoft licensing

26 Apr 2012

Reversing the trend

Fleur Doidge investigates a boom in serving end customers better through reverse logistics

16 Apr 2012

Westcoast adds to HP config toolbox

Distributor launches iCreate Workstation configuration tool after lengthy development process

10 Apr 2012

United we stand

Partners and market watchers give their verdict on HP’s decision to merge its IPG and PSG units. Sam Trendall reports

02 Apr 2012

Westcoast offers education sweetener

Distributor looks to drive sales of Microsoft IT Academy with latest scheme, and also issues a fitness test to industry with 100-mile cycle challenge in May

20 Mar 2012

Thinking beyond the box

Is there really an opportunity for resellers and distributors in vastly expanding their sales of peripherals and accessories? Fleur Doidge investigates

05 Mar 2012

Westcoast catches SanDisk

Distributor signs deal to supply vendor's USB flash drives and SSD drives as it looks to expand its B2B reach

20 Feb 2012

Panda bares all to distributors

Cloud security vendor makes channel strategy black and white as hundreds of VARs are migrated to new partners Westcoast and VIP

23 Jan 2012

Avnet and Northamber lose Microsoft OEM rights

Microsoft moves from eight to six OEM distributors in the UK following review process

06 Jan 2012

Alex Tatham

15 Dec 2011

Good week/Bad week

We run through who's played a blinder and who's made a blunder in the channel this week

07 Nov 2011

Westcoast throws UC hat into ring

Distributor sets up dedicated unified communications team as it pursues ambitious growth targets

01 Nov 2011

Westcoast sparks channel apprentice drive

Distributor hopes to encourage its reseller base to take on 500 apprentices as part of Microsoft's scheme

29 Sep 2011

Microsoft launches OEM distributor review

Software giant orders worldwide audit of OEM distributor numbers

27 Sep 2011

Dell signs printer partnership with Westcoast

Consumables to the fore in latest push for the Dell channel

19 Sep 2011

Fancy footwork from Kelway

This year's Samsung Champions Cup saw Kelway take the honours

06 Jun 2011

Educating the channel on school needs

A Westcoast event investigated what the changes in education mean for the channel. Fleur Doidge went along to find out more

03 Jun 2011

Westcoast plans expansion

Distributor looks to new technology areas through acquisition or skills recruitment

12 May 2011

Westcoast sends resellers down the Amazon

Distributor pairs with Microsoft to offer four resellers (and partners) the trip of a lifetime to the Amazon rainforest

09 May 2011

Public sector success fuels XMA sales and profit spike

Reseller's top line rises 38 per cent to £140m

05 May 2011

Rivals query XMA Welsh council win

Competing resellers blast 'unfair' procurement process after losing out on £3.5m laptop deal

15 Apr 2011

Westcoast goes vertical

Distributor keen to mirror education success in healthcare market

13 Apr 2011

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