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Avnet Abacus wins TDK European Distribution Gold Award
Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electro mechanical and power distributors and a regional business unit of Avnet (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced it is the exclusive winner of TDK’s European Distribution Gold Award in the international volume distribution category. ‘Senten Manten’ is a Japanese term that means ‘the perfect result’ or ‘full marks’. TDK uses the Senten Manten system to assess distributors on their levels of performance and collaboration with the manufacturer across four categories: business performance; inventory management; contractual terms; and operational excellence. “Due to the ongoing very high demand for our products, good inventory management and long-term planning were also important success factors for the award…
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Avnet Abacus congratulates Bourns on 75 years of innovation
Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electro-mechanical and power distributors and a regional business unit of Avnet (NASDAQ: AVT), today congratulated Bourns, a world-leading supplier of a wide range of passive electronic components, on its 75th anniversary in business. The company was set up in Altadena, California in 1947 – coincidentally the same year as the invention of the first working point-contact transistor by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley at Bell Labs, which arguably represents the birth of the modern electronics industry. In addition to the 75th anniversary of Bourns, this year also marks a milestone for the relationship between Bourns and Avnet Abacus, as the two companies are celebrating…
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Avnet Abacus to showcase 50 years of making ideas reality at embedded world
Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading distributor of interconnect, passive, electromechanical, power supply, energy storage, wireless & sensor products and a regional business unit of Avnet (NASDAQ: AVT), will exhibit at the leading embedded technologies trade fair, embedded world 2022, in Nuremberg, Germany from 21 – 23 June 2022. Located in Hall 3A Booth 125, Avnet Abacus will be celebrating 50 years of making ideas reality, showcasing products, hosting expert talks, and highlighting technologies in partnership with some of the world’s leading manufacturers. Offering a combination of digital and physical demonstrations, Avnet Abacus will present a range of the latest trends in: Passive technology Connectors & SPE Antennas, wireless &…
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Avnet Abacus and EBV Elektronik supporting leading industrial customers to bring Single Pair Ethernet to market
Avnet Abacus and EBV Elektronik, which are both part of Avnet (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced their respective support to help customers with the development of ‘Single Pair Ethernet’ (SPE) technology. Avnet Abacus is one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electro-mechanical and power distributors and is a regional business unit of Avnet; and EBV Elektronik is the leading specialist in European semiconductor distribution and is an Avnet company. Single Pair Ethernet, or SPE, is an important emerging technology that can contribute to converged end-to-end data communications in the industrial IoT (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 paradigm. In addition to enabling the seamless flow of Ethernet packets between field devices and factory enterprise-level…
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Avnet Abacus garners major distribution award from TE Connectivity
Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading distributor of interconnect, passive, electromechanical, power supply, energy storage, wireless & sensor products and a regional business unit of Avnet (NASDAQ: AVT), has been named ‘Distributor of the Year 2021’ for the EMEA region by strategic manufacturing partner TE Connectivity (TE), a global leader in connectors and sensors. This award recognises Avnet Abacus’ overall performance during the past 12 months (FY22), with special attention to key criteria including growth in sales and the development of new designs and projects. It also credits the training delivered by Avnet Abacus around the leading-edge products and technologies offered by TE. “To gain this award from the number…
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Avnet Abacus celebrates fiftieth anniversary of foundation
Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading distributor of interconnect, passive, electromechanical, power supply, energy storage, wireless & sensor products and a regional business unit of Avnet (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced its 50th year in business, since the setup of its forerunner company Abacus Electronics, which was founded in 1972 with headquarters at Newbury, Berkshire in the UK. Abacus Electronics grew quickly over the decades from an embryonic start-up to become a $500 million UK stock-exchange listed electronics distribution company, building up via a combination of organic growth and acquisitions of other specialist component distributors. By the time of its merger with Avnet Time in 2009, Abacus Electronics had approximately 1100…
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Avnet Abacus receives European Distributor of the Year 2021 award from Harwin
Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electro-mechanical and power distributors and a regional business unit of Avnet (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced that it has received the "European Distributor of the Year 2021" award from Harwin, a globally recognised leader in high reliability interconnect solutions. Michael Clarner, Head of Distribution Sales EMEA at Harwin, said: "Our partnership with Avnet Abacus is exceptionally strong across Europe at all levels of our business. During 2021, revenue grew beyond the market average, and the number and value of new designwins pave the way for a bright future." This latest award follows on from Avnet Abacus‘ recent success in Harwin’s 5 Star Awards,…
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Avnet Abacus to host online engineering masterclass series on power conversion
Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electro-mechanical and power distributors and a regional business unit of Avnet (NASDAQ: AVT), is to host a series of live webinars addressing the various trade-offs and challenges currently faced by power engineers. They will provide valuable insights into dealing with acute power system pressures relating to standards compliance, adherence to size and weight constraints, maximising conversion efficiency levels, improving operational reliability, keeping bill-of-materials costs down and meeting deadlines. Hosted by Avnet Abacus’ resident power specialist, Andrew Hutton, and scheduled to take place every two weeks between 18 March and 27 May, the six live 30-minute online engineering masterclasses, will feature expert insights…
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Avnet Abacus gewinnt TDK European Distribution Award zum 3. Mal in Folge
Avnet Abacus, ein europaweit führender Distributor von Steckverbindern, passiven, elektromechanischen Bauelementen, Batterien und Stromversorgungen und ein regionaler Geschäftsbereich von Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT), ist von TDK mit dem European Distribution Silver Award in der Kategorie ‚International Volume Distribution‘ ausgezeichnet wurde. Dies ist bereits das dritte Jahr in Folge, dass Avnet Abacus von TDK, einem weltweit führenden Hersteller von elektronischen Komponenten, Modulen, Systemen und Geräten, ausgezeichnet wurde. ‚Senten Manten‘ ist ein japanischer Begriff, der ‚das perfekte Ergebnis oder volle Punktzahl‘ bedeutet. TDK verwendet das Senten Manten-System, um Distributoren nach ihrem Leistungsniveau und ihrer Zusammenarbeit mit dem Hersteller in vier Kategorien zu bewerten: Geschäftsentwicklung, Lagerbestandsmanagement, Vertragsbedingungen und kaufmännische Leistung. "In einem herausfordernden Marktumfeld…
