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Distributor claims it is showing partners the way on IoT with several live applications, including a proof of concept with a UK brewery

With seven of the top 20 UK distributors of 2010 having been acquired or gone bust, will resellers and vendors soon be faced with a lack of choice, asks Doug Woodburn?

Both disties offer M&A udpates on earnings calls, as Ingram prepares to be swallowed by HNA and Avnet gears up to sell TS unit to Tech Data

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Bob Dutkowsky claims Avnet was the deal his firm wanted to do above all others as he talks to CRN sister publication Channelnomics Europe

The news that Tech Data is to acquire Avnet's Technology Solutions business for £2.6bn has left the industry reeling…..

Distributor tight-lipped on rumours it is closing a satellite office and weighing up moving some functions out to Poland

William Amelio given top job on permanent basis following Rick Hamada's exit

Graeme Watt talks to CRN sister publication Channelnomics Europe about the distributor's shifting sales strategy and investment in upskilling staff