Expands sales and marketing team with 3 new people

Anglia has expanded its sales and marketing team with three new appointments. Jaqui Fretwell joins Anglia as Divisional Marketing Manager – Business Development and Shirley Vacher and Nicole Claxton join as Key Account Managers.

Commenting, Jim Ward said, “Anglia’s strong emphasis on investing in our customer relationships has been a key factor in bringing our business through the recent downturn successfully. As the market recovers, we are continuing that strategy and bringing on board three individuals with exceptional skills and experience to enlarge our customer facing organisation.”

Jaqui Fretwell has spent 17 years in the industry and joins as Divisional Marketing Manager, reporting to Jim Ward, Sales and Marketing Director.

Nicole Claxton and Shirley Vacher are both seasoned sales professionals. Claxton, who will look after customers in Surrey, Oxfordshire and Middlesex, has a 14 year track record in distribution sales and joins from Acal where she spent three years as Account Manager. Previously, she has held sales positions at Memec, Avnet Millennium, 2001 and Arrow.

Vacher will cover Wiltshire, Hampshire and Berkshire, and joins from sales generation specialists the Newbury Group. She brings 25 years sales experience to the role, including ten years in component distribution with Acal, Gothic and Advanced Crystal Technology.

As Key Account Managers, both will report to Debbie Houseley Stott, Regional Sales Manager, South.

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Anglia collects Intersil Partner award

Anglia Components today announced that it has been named the Intersil ‘Best Distribution Partner’ for Europe in 2009, less than six months after signing the franchise agreement. The award was presented by Robert Pfister, VP of Sales, Europe, at the Intersil Global Conference in California. This is the first time it has been presented since 2006.

The award is due to Anglia’s design and engineering capability, which has led to fast progress in securing design wins, according to Peter Schubert, Director of Sales, Distribution & Horizontal, Europe, at Intersil. He said, “Our goal in appointing Anglia was to add more and deeper technical expertise to our network, and their performance in the first months of our relationship has fully justified their appointment. Their ability to get up to speed with the technology quickly has been extremely impressive, and as a result they have already secured several design-ins with customers that are new to Intersil. In one case, they secured the first design-win globally for a new line of Intersil products.” Schubert continued, “Anglia has invested strongly in the Intersil line and the relationship is working well at every level.”

Steve Rawlins, Anglia CEO responded, “Intersil is a world leader in analog and power IC solutions and has a reputation for delivering innovative solutions that solve real challenges for our customers. We are excited about the opportunity that the line offers, and appreciate the very strong commitment that they have made to get our relationship of to a strong start. We are especially delighted that they already feel so positively about Anglia and our work with them. Joel Munday and the team are to be congratulated on their hard work, effort and enthusiasm.”

Announced in June 2009, the agreement allows Anglia to sell and support Intersil’s entire portfolio of standard analog ICs across the UK and Ireland. Intersil offers Anglia’s customers a complete portfolio of analog ICs, from building block devices to high precision solutions for use in industrial, instrumentation and medical applications.

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Signs agreement with world leader in crystal timing devices

Anglia Components, the UK’s leading independent component distributor, today announced a franchise agreement with Epson Toyocom, a world leader in crystal timing devices, giving it the remit to take a broad based range of timing, sensing, and optical devices to its customers in the UK market.

According to Stefan Hartmann, Department Manager QD of Epson Europe Electronics GmbH (Epson Toyocom’s sales affiliate in Europe), “As market leader, we at Epson Toyocom always strive to give the best possible support to customers. One major factor to ensure this is to have a strong and tight distribution network. During our continuous market evaluation process we have found that the UK market presents us with a rich opportunity from a large number of innovative small and medium sized companies undertaking design work. We identified Anglia as an ideal expansion of our distribution network, as it has excellent contacts with this market, taking us into many customers where we currently don’t have representation. In addition, they have a very strong engineering team, able to work alongside customers to help them make the most of the solutions that we offer. Finally, they have a base of highly complementary products and technologies with which our devices can form a package. These include semiconductor ranges and wireless communications technologies.”

Steve Rawlins, CEO of Anglia added, “We are delighted to have formed a relationship with one of world’s leading manufacturers of timing components. Epson Toyocom is the quartz crystal vendor of choice for many of the top OEMs, and we are now in a position to take these products and solutions to the entire base of industrial, medical and consumer electronics customers in the UK. This will include new and innovative products as they bring them to market.”

Joel Munday, Anglia Components Divisional Marketing Manager, added, “Timing components are becoming increasingly critical to our customers, in particular as wireless communications becomes more prevalent. Standard microprocessor based designs suffer a degradation in performance if substandard timing components are used, but usually still work. Wireless communications products won’t work at all if the timing doesn’t meet the specification.”

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Anglis signs up to SBAC SC21 Programme

Anglia Components, the UK’s leading privately owned Electronic component distributor, today reinforced its commitment to its extensive military and aerospace customer base with the announcement that it has signed up to the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) demanding 21st century supply chain (SC21) programme, and is seeking AS9120 accreditation.

Anglia is now working towards gaining formal recognition under the SC21 programme, and expects to achieve this within six to nine months. The distributor already offers a very high standard of service to military and aerospace customers, including full lot traceability.

Commenting, Steve Rawlins, CEO at Anglia, “The seven SC21 commitments are already central to our business culture. SC21 offers us a great opportunity to formalise this culture, and sign up to a programme which will strengthen our focus on these key issues. We are excited about the opportunity to further develop and improve our business and service by learning from industry wide best practice.”

The seven commitments within the SC21 programme include the adoption of a new SC21 business culture to deliver benefits across the industry and avoid duplication and waste. The others are to deliver innovation, to address through-life cost, deliver on the SC21 plan, show leadership, conduct business in an ethical manner and increase the pace of change.

SC21 is a change programme implemented by SBAC to accelerate the competitiveness of the aerospace and defence industry by raising the performance of its supply chains. SBAC is the UK’s national trade association representing companies supplying civil air transport, defence, homeland security and space, and encompasses over 2,600 companies including the British Aviation Group and UKspace as well as Farnborough International Limited who are responsible for the Farnborough Airshow.

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Anglia strengthens passive portfolio with AVX

Anglia has significantly strengthened its passive component portfolio with the signing of a franchise agreement with AVX, one of the world’s leading manufacturers, covering the UK and Ireland for its full product portfolio.

Commenting, Katie Pooley, Business Development Manager, Anglia said, “AVX not only expands the already very broad range of capacitors that we offer, but also gives us access to exciting new ranges of components. These include a very extensive portfolio of High Reliability capacitors and the innovative Transguard® circuit protection, EMI filters, frequency control and connector products.”

Tak Koutsoumanis, AVX Distribution Manager, Northern Region added, “We believe that Anglia has the ability to open a new base of customers beyond those that we are reaching at the moment. Their service model and design-in capability is extremely impressive, and we believe that they can identify new opportunities for our innovative technologies.”

Under the agreement, Anglia will have access to the complete portfolio of AVX component products, and will support them to its’ UK and Ireland customer base. This spans ceramic and tantalum capacitors, thick and thin film capacitors, timing devices and integrated passive components as well as EMI filters, circuit protection and connectors. AVX offers solutions to address applications from demanding military and medical systems through telecommunications to general consumer and industrial electronics.

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Anglia signs new power line

Anglia is strengthening its support of automatic meter reading, green energy and other expanding power markets with the announcement of a new a franchise agreement with Maxwell Technology, developer of the award winning Ultracapacitor energy storage and power delivery technology.

According to Maarten van der Reijden, Maxwell Technologies’ Business Partner Manager, the appointment was down to the strength of Anglia’s technical support. “Ultracapacitor is an innovative technology on a fast growth ramp. We’re looking for a distributor who could partner with us to identify opportunities where this technology can make a real difference to customer’s designs. Anglia offers a very strong technical focus and fits that profile exactly.”

The signing nicely complements existing Anglia franchises in the power and energy markets, believes, John Bowman, Anglia’s Divisional Marketing Manager. “Maxwell Technologies’ products fit perfectly within our power portfolio, and complement our activities within the consumer, industrial, and renewable energy markets. Their technology has great potential on projects that we’re already aware of and will equally appeal to new customers. Maxwell is seeing 60-70% growth on this product line, we are extremely excited at the opportunity to work with them and expand the market for their technology.” He added, “Their products are ideal for any application requiring a short burst of high power.”

The award winning Ultracapacitors, available in single cells, or multi-cell packs, from 10 Farads to thousands of Farads, bring new levels of efficiency and power to everything from consumer electronics to hybrid cars and renewable energy sources.

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Anglia expands power portfolio with Murata Power Solutions

Anglia has announced that it has signed a UK and Ireland distribution agreement with Murata Power Solutions for its broad range of power converter products.

A world-leading manufacturer of DC-DC converters, AC-DC power supplies, magnetics, data acquisition devices and panel meters, Murata Power Solutions offers the widest range of power products from a single manufacturer. Their applications typically span the telecommunication, computing and industrial sectors.

Anglia’s Divisional Marketing Manager, John Bowman said, “Murata Power Solutions’ products are a tremendous addition to our power management product line-up and a perfect complement to our existing activities in this area. This means even greater choice for our customers, backed by expert technical support from our dedicated power team.”

Trevor Jennings, Northern European Sales Manager, Murata Power Solutions said, “Anglia has a highly focused team who have the right power technology experience to support our products and I am delighted that they are partnered with us. Their design-led approach coupled with their extensive reach in the UK and Ireland will ensure customers receive the best possible design-in and supply service.”

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Anglia adds M2M comms capability with Cinterion

Anglia has signed a UK and Ireland distribution agreement with the world’s leading manufacturer of GSM and GPRS modules, Cinterion – formerly Siemens Wireless Modules. Under the deal, Anglia will provide sales, marketing and design support to promote Cinterion’s entire product range.

The agreement further extends Anglia’s wireless portfolio, enabling it to offer design-in solutions for a rapidly expanding variety of machine-to-machine (M2M) applications making use of the mobile phone network. Applications include remote utility metering, fire and security system monitoring, e-tolls, secure transactions, POS terminals, asset tracking systems and mobile computers.

Arthur Woode, Cinterion’s UK and Ireland country manager said, “We were looking for an additional partner with proven expertise in wireless technology, and a solid understanding of the design-in process. Anglia was therefore a natural choice to help us grow our business in the UK and Ireland.”

Commenting on the deal, John Bowman, Anglia’s Divisional Marketing Manager, highlighted Cinterion’s GSM/GPRS strength, “Cinterion leads the market with a wide range of cutting-edge wireless M2M solutions. The inclusion of this technology perfectly complements our existing product offering, firmly establishing us as a truly significant player in the wireless space”.

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Anglia expands range of LED lighting accessories by signing Carclo Optics

Anglia has announced that it has expanded the range of optics offered by its Anglia Lighting division by signing a UK and Ireland distribution agreement with optics manufacturer Carclo.

Carclo Optics manufactures a range of standard and custom optics products for use with LEDs and other solid state devices: these include high efficiency collimator lenses for use with LED lighting and laser diodes, display light-guides for LED matrices, and polyethylene PIR lenses.

“The goal of Anglia Lighting is to provide customers with the full range of products and services they need to put together a lighting system, and optics forms an integral part of this capability. Carclo offers a wide range of options that are an ideal complement for our solid state lighting portfolio,” commented John Bowman, Anglia’s Divisional Marketing Manager.

“Because optics are integral to the design of a lighting system, the choice of a distributor is very important to us,” added Ian Bryant, Business Development Manager of Carclo Optics. “Anglia’s specialist experience across the whole spectrum of solid state lighting design makes it an ideal distribution partner for us.”

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