ChannelWeb's top five

A rundown of the five most popular stories broken on ChannelWeb.co.uk last week

1) Light-fingered Ingram Micro worker gets 14 months

After four-year wait, former employee of broadliner sent down for stealing electrical goods in 2005 and 2006

2) Five join Maverick from distribution rivals

UK and European arms boost ranks in expansion plan

3) ANS guns for northern supremacy
Manchester-based VAR grows turnover 10 per cent as it looks to become vendors' regional partner of choice

4) Comtek slams HP cull and eyes recruitment

Hardware giant's UK staff reduction provokes condemnation

5) Juniper reviews distributor finance initiative
Vendor examines 90-day payment initiative as European market shows signs of improvement