Rise of the global 'super VAR'

With a quarter of the firms included in Top VARs 2019 were headquartered outside the UK, the business of reselling and servicing IT is becoming more global in nature

The channel is becoming an increasingly global game, with 25 internationally headquartered firms - including 11 based in the US alone - featuring in Top VARs 2019, CRN's rundown of the UK's top 100 resellers and MSPs by revenue. New faces this year include Norwegian software licensing powerhouse Crayon, German reseller Cancom and the US' ePlus, which owns Cisco partner IGX Global.

A new elite of global ‘super VARs' is fast emerging, with the 16 firms below now posting combined global and UK revenues of £76.7bn and £6.6bn, respectively. This includes homegrown heroes SCC and Computacenter, the latter of which recently expanded into the US with its acquisition of FusionStorm. You can view CRN's Top VARs in its full glory here.