45 Distributors You Need to Know 2022 - Part Two

Meet the UK IT distribution players ranked from 30th to 16th in this year's countdown

Doug Woodburn
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45 Distributors You Need to Know 2022 - Part Two

Who are the UK's top IT distributors, and how do they view the market going into the final four months of 2022?

This three-part feature counts down the 45 largest UK broadliners and VADs on CRN's radar by revenue. See part one here. And part three here. This second part counts down those ranked 30th to 16th*....

30. M2M

Revenue: £37m (+24%)

Specialism: Memory and SSDs

Key vendors: Samsung, Intel, Micron

HQ: London

Counting Intel, Micron, Samsung and Seagate among its vendor chums, this memory and data storage distributor saw revenues swell by nearly a quarter in calendar 2021, according to numbers it shared with us.

Founded in 1998 by Ged Mitchell, the London-based outfit specialises in memory modules, SSDs, hard drives, portable media, optical drives, graphic cards, USB drives and SD cards.

Which £40m-revenue distributor became employee-owned earlier this year? See next page for more...

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