Avnet Abacus today announced that Molex Incorporated has awarded the 2011 Global Distributor of the Year award to Avnet Electronics Marketing, a leading global distributor of electronic parts and embedded subsystems. The Molex Global Distributor of the Year award recognizes valued partners demonstrating financial, operational and executive management excellence. Molex is represented by Avnet’s European interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power specialist distributor, Avnet Abacus, in the EMEA region.

“We are proud to recognize Avnet’s significant contribution to our global distribution results in 2011,” stated Graham Brock, president, sales and marketing division, Molex. “This award represents the commitment demonstrated by the Avnet teams in Asia, Europe and the Americas and the contribution that it made to significant revenue growth for both our companies. We have worked very hard to be a major supplier of interconnection products to Avnet for 29 years. We value our partnership with Avnet and look forward to continued expansion of our global relationship.”

“Avnet and Molex have shared a distribution partnership that has spanned nearly 30 years. Receiving the Distributor of the Year award is truly an honor,” said Harley Feldberg, president, Avnet Electronics Marketing worldwide. “Our customers hold Avnet to the highest standards, and it is long-standing relationships with proven technology leaders such as Molex that allow us to consistently provide the best-in-class design- and supply-chain services to our customers around the world. We look forward to what the future holds and appreciate this recognition of our efforts.”

The Avnet team achieved this recognition by growing POS revenue by more than 30% from the previous year. Avnet achieved the highest score on operations metrics and had the largest percent growth of lines stocked. Avnet further expanded the Molex global reach by promoting and stocking all of the new products introduced in FY11.

Distributors were evaluated based on criteria in three categories, including:
•Financial: Year over year sales growth
•Operational: Inventory management, new product support, order coverage, among other factors.
•Management: Accessibility to management team, training program support, feedback on pricing strategy, etc.

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Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading Power, interconnect, passive, electromechanical component distributors, is to be a gold sponsor at the forthcoming Fortronic LED Lighting & Design Forum on 27th March at the Williams F1 Conference Centre in Oxford, UK.

Fortronic Technology Forums are one day, technology focused events for high tech communication from “technical specialist to technical specialist” within the electronic community. This successful programme of events, covering a range of themes including RF & Wireless, LED & Lighting, Solar PV, Power & Energy and Automation, is aimed at anyone actively involved in the design and manufacture of electronic systems or modules.

The March LED Lighting and Design forum programme consists of a morning plenary session, with up to 8 short technical presentations. The afternoon workshops will be hosted by a number of industry leading manufacturers and distributors including Avnet Abacus who in partnership with Mean Well Europe BV will offer a workshop on Power solutions for LED and Lighting systems. In the exhibition area Avnet Abacus will showcase a broad range of component solutions for the Solid State Lighting industry.
Alan Jermyn, VP European Marketing at Avnet Abacus comments: “Avnet Abacus will be showcasing a broad range of power, interconnect, control, circuit protection and thermal management solutions for solid state lighting applications at The Fortronic Led Lighting and Design Forum. We’re pleased to be partnering with Mean Well which delivers a high quality range of switched mode power products for lighting which are ultra-reliable and highly-efficient.”

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Molex Incorporated today announced that it has awarded the 2011 Global Distributor of the Year award to Avnet Electronics Marketing, a leading global distributor of electronic parts and embedded subsystems. Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Avnet, Inc. the Phoenix, Arizona-based firm accepted the award at a meeting in Phoenix. The Molex Global Distributor of the Year award recognises valued partners demonstrating financial, operational and executive management excellence.

“We are proud to recognise Avnet’s significant contribution to our global distribution results in 2011,” stated Graham Brock, president, sales and marketing division, Molex. “This award represents the commitment demonstrated by the Avnet teams in Asia, Europe and the Americas and the contribution that it made to significant revenue growth for both our companies. We have worked very hard to be a major supplier of interconnection products to Avnet for 29 years. We value our partnership with Avnet and look forward to continued expansion of our global relationship.”

“Avnet and Molex have shared a distribution partnership that has spanned nearly 30 years. Receiving the Distributor of the Year award is truly an honour,” said Harley Feldberg, president, Avnet Electronics Marketing worldwide. “Our customers hold Avnet to the highest standards, and it is long-standing relationships with proven technology leaders such as Molex that allow us to consistently provide the best-in-class design- and supply-chain services to our customers around the world. We look forward to what the future holds and appreciate this recognition of our efforts.”

The Avnet team achieved this recognition by growing POS revenue by more than 30% from the previous year. Avnet achieved the highest score on operations metrics and had the largest percent growth of lines stocked. Avnet further expanded the Molex global reach by promoting and stocking all of the new products introduced in FY11.

Distributors were evaluated based on criteria in three categories, including:
• Financial: Year over year sales growth
• Operational: Inventory management, new product support, order coverage, among other factors.
• Management: Accessibility to management team, training program support, feedback on pricing strategy, etc.

The Global Distributor award follows Molex’s mid-2011 presentation of Regional Distributor of the Year awards to four leading distributors in Asia/Pacific (TTI), Europe (TTI, MT Systems), and the U.S. (Heiland).

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Avnet Abacus has recently been honoured by Emerson Network Power for ‘Excellence in Distribution’ in the Southern Europe region covering Italy, France, Spain, Israel, South Africa, Turkey and Greece. The award recognizes the design-in success, sales growth, new product promotions, ease of doing business as well as the exceptional and innovative efforts applied by Avnet Abacus.

Avnet Abacus promotes and distributes Emerson Network Power’s embedded power products on a pan-European basis. A market leader in ac-dc power supplies and distributed power applications, Emerson Network Power’s products are especially well suited to industrial and medical applications. “We are very proud of this award from Emerson as it recognises that our efforts in Southern Europe have been successful. I especially want to thank Luigi Caronni, Product Specialist for power products at Avnet Abacus, for all his hard work in promoting Emerson’s outstanding products to our customers”, comments Cor van Dam, European Marketing Director for power and battery products at Avnet Abacus.

Greg White, vice president worldwide sales for Embedded Power at Emerson Network Power remarks: “Avnet Abacus has performed very well in designing-in and supporting our products. They truly deserve this award. We hope the successful alliance we have with Avnet Abacus will continue for many years to come.”

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Avnet Abacus will be demonstrating various forms of energy harvesting at its booth (Hall 1, Stand 249) at Embedded World, Nuremburg, using Cymbet EnerChip™ energy harvesting evaluation kits connected to microcontroller and wireless reference designs from Texas Instruments, Atmel, and Silicon Labs. The company will also be showing an “Uninterruptible Power Supply in a Chip” real time clock power holdover solution using Cymbet’s solid state batteries.

Energy harvesting demonstrations will include various different technologies: flexible photovoltaic cells; thermal gradient harvesting using a thermoelectric harvester; vibration harvesting using a piezoelectric transducer; and RF induction charging. Cymbet evaluation kits and reference designs for all these harvesters are available from Avnet Abacus. The real time clock (RTC) power holdover application is based on a Cymbet CBC-EVAL-06 evaluation kit which combines an EnerChip CBC3112 “UPS in a Chip “with the Microcrystal RTC RV-2123-C2 which is the world’s smallest integrated RTC module.

Cymbet Energy Harvesting kits are now interoperable with the Silicon Labs RF-to-USB2 RD wireless demonstration kit, available from Avnet Abacus’ sister company, Avnet Memec enabling designers to experiment with all the ambient energy harvesting techniques to power the low power SiLabs Si1014 wireless MCU nodes.

Visitors to the Cymbet booth will be able to see a demonstration of the use of the Texas Instruments CC2540 Bluetooth low energy (BLE) evaluation kit powered by the Cymbet EnerCard™ solar energy harvesting module. The TI BLE kit, available from fellow Avnet companies, Silica and EBV, is connected to the EnerCard that supplies power from small solar cells or the EnerChip smart solid state batteries when there is no light.

The core of the EnerCard is the Cymbet EnerChip EP CBC915 energy processor which utilizes maximum peak power tracking for the highest efficiency solar energy conversion. The EnerChip EP, available from Avnet Abacus, also manages the EnerChip batteries and provides energy aware functions to the TI BLE key fob device. Energy aware functions are very important for optimal system performance under varying light and power conditions. Alan Jermyn, VP European Marketing at Avnet Abacus comments: “These demos show the expertise we have with Avnet Abacus, bringing together complementary products and technologies to deliver innovative solutions for new applications.”

EnerChip smart solid state batteries last the life of the product, have the smallest footprint of any energy storage solution, and can be placed anywhere on a board using surface mount assembly and reflow solder. EnerChips enable designers to remove cumbersome battery holders and battery access doors from their products. All the Cymbet evaluation kits are in stock at Avnet Abacus which makes it easy to experiment with these new energy harvesting and energy storage capabilities.

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Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power distributors, has announced that it will make its debut at Embedded World in 2012, demonstrating embedded power solutions for diverse applications as Smart metering, LED lighting, energy harvesting, Information systems, digital imaging and wireless LAN systems. The company will also have CAN-bus interface and sensor products on display for the first time.

The emerging markets mentioned above require much more than single component approach. In solid state lighting, for example, it is important to support the LEDs with the latest, high reliability driver IC circuitry, passives and connectors in order to maximize the benefits of moving away from older, inefficient filament & fluorescent technology. Applications for energy harvesting, are so new that many approaches are currently under evaluation and designers need to see a complete systems picture before deciding on which technology is most appropriate.

Comments Alan Jermyn, VP European Marketing at Avnet Abacus: “We have paired exciting new, enabling technology from companies such as Cymbet and Enpirion with passive and electromechanical products from the industry’s leading names to ensure that designers looking to develop energy- and cost-efficient embedded systems can access a full package of parts designed to work perfectly together. Embedded World 2012 is the perfect opportunity for us to showcase our technical and applications capabilities, and we will also take the opportunity to feature products only recently launched.”

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 Avnet Abacus has received an award from Kingbright, the Taiwanese maker of LEDs and related lighting products for outstanding Sales Growth in 2010/2011.

Avnet Abacus is Kingbright’s largest Pan European distributor, holding extensive stocks of the LED company’s wide product range. Commented Alan Jermyn, Avnet Abacus’ VP European Marketing: “Avnet Abacus has sold Kingbright products for many years into the Industrial electronics market, this award recognizes not only our success but the suitability of Kingbright’s innovative portfolio of discrete LEDs, super-bright LEDs, displays sensors, clusters and light pipes.  Kingbright’s product portfolio complements our commodity passive component ranges“

Added Udo Reinhold, Managing Director, Kingbright Europe: “Avnet Abacus has the technical expertise to help designers maximise the benefits that our LED technology offers in terms of product range, power and cost savings as well as creativity in implementing new product designs.”

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Avnet Abacus has received an award from Kingbright, the Taiwanese maker of LEDs and related lighting products for outstanding Sales Growth in 2010/2011.
Avnet Abacus is Kingbright’s largest Pan European distributor, holding extensive stocks of the LED company’s wide product range. Commented Alan Jermyn, Avnet Abacus’ VP European Marketing: “Avnet Abacus has sold Kingbright products for many years into the Industrial electronics market, this award recognizes not only our success but the suitability of Kingbright’s innovative portfolio of discrete LEDs, super-bright LEDs, displays sensors, clusters and light pipes. Kingbright’s product portfolio complements our commodity passive component ranges“
Added Udo Reinhold, Managing Director, Kingbright Europe: “Avnet Abacus has the technical expertise to help designers maximise the benefits that our LED technology offers in terms of product range, power and cost savings as well as creativity in implementing new product designs.

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Murata has announced it has signed a Pan-European franchise agreement with Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power distributors. Covering Murata’s range of innovative passive products, the agreement builds on a 20-year relationship between the two companies. Previously, Avnet Abacus has covered selected European territories for Murata passives and has held a Pan-European agreement for the company’s power solutions products. This extended agreement further enhances Avnet Abacus’ position as a leading distributor of Murata products.

Avnet Abacus is particularly enthusiastic about introducing Murata’s innovative ceramic-based components to a wider European design engineering audience. Commented Alan Jermyn, VP European Marketing: “We recognise Murata’s global leadership in ceramic based electronic components. Our particular focus will be on the application and design in of new products such as SMD Pyroelectric Infra Red sensors, AMR Sensors, Microblower, timing devices & Metal T-cap ranges.”

Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power distributors, has announced two new piezo electric buzzers from Kingstate Electronics Corporation via a Pan-European deal with the leading Taiwanese maker of piezo buzzers, magnetic buzzers, micro speakers, dynamic receivers, electret condenser microphones and earphones. Kingstate have 34 years manufacturing experience in the acoustic field.

Kingstate’s KPEG1300S is a combined strobe-siren alarm. The piezo electric buzzer measures 50mm high and with a diameter or 58mm. With Frequency 2.5KHz, it produces min. 100dB (typ. 105dB) at 12VDC/100cm. The unit also features six ultra-bright LEDs which can strobe with an intensity of 15,000mcd, providing an attention-grabbing visual as well as audible alarm. The KPEG1300S is RoHS-compliant and sealed to IP55.

Another new product, the KPEG1600MS, is a piezo electric buzzer with a high recognisable motor siren tone measuring 56mm in diameter and 42mm high. It also produces a minimum audible tone level of 100dB (typ. 105dB) at 100cm at 12VDC.

Comments VP Marketing, Alan Jermyn: “Kingstate invests in R&D to deliver smaller, multi-function products offering cost and value-added benefits. Avnet Abacus stocks a full range of Kingstate’s innovative audible alarms and buzzers – which will be especially suited to applications in the Fire & Security, Non Automotive transportation and Automation & Machine tools sectors – and offers design-in support for developers of new products.”