Average VAR margins fall to one per cent

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Plimsoll analysis of top 1,000 resellers warns of too many firms chasing too little business

Average profit margins among the UK’s top 1,000 resellers have fallen to a wafer-thin one per cent, with 225 in danger of going under. That is the stark conclusion of analyst Plimsoll, which war...

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