HP’s acquisition of Palm pushed Distie Report to today so sorry about that, but that’s the news business.
Many distributors are going green and all of them should be applauded by their efforts.
D&H Canada is trying to take is green goals one step farther by including its customers.
The company recently completed a highly successful promotion where Computer XS Inc. of Waterloo, Ontario, won the grand prize of a Vespa scooter.
Why give away a Vespa? Well, it’s cool for one thing, but it also saves on gas and that is good for the environment. A very smart prize in my opinion.
The promotion itself was very inventive. Consider this: The D&H Go Green Promotion generated sales of 42,339 ecologically-conservative products between January 1 and April 16.
Jeff Davis, senior vice president of sales, for D&H said the promotion exceeded the distributor’s expectations. That is an understatement because when you break it down the promotion was in play for 106 days including Sundays when no one is really working and in that relatively short amount of time D&H delivered more than 42,000 green products is a great achievement. That is a pace of 400 products per day.
Sure the promotion may have sparked some channel partners to push the green IT initiative with customers, but I think the market place is finally ready for the green shift and this promotion really hit the mark.
Davis said that D&H’s goal with this promotion was to actively encourage the adoption of cleaner, renewable or less power-hungry technologies throughout the marketplace.
Mission accomplished D&H.
Excellent financial reports
Very good signs of a turnaround in the market place if you factor the latest financial reports from Ingram Micro’s First-Quarter 2010 and Avnet’s Third-Quarter.
Sales grew for Ingram by 20 per cent, which is the distributors best showing since 1999 the year before the tech bubble burst.
The distributor also posted double-digit revenue and operating income growth in all regions which is another good sign.
Avnet net sales for the quarter increased 28.5 per cent year over year to $4.76 billion and increased 25.5% year over year adjusted for the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates.
Synnex CEO Kevin Murai has confirmed that he will participate in the Global Technology Distribution Council in New York next week. This council mission is to foster cooperation between distributors, vendors, solution providers and IT retailers to supply the IT needs of businesses and consumers around the world.
At Arrow ElectronicsSimon Yu has been named president of Arrow Asia Pacific Components effective immediately.
