Distributors: Interconnection World

Key to the entire supply chain and procurement process, distributors are the face of many brands to their customers. Educational programs and online bill-of-materials building are just the beginning of the services that distributors provide. They have provided critical guidance to compliance with initiatives like RoHS and WEEE, and have united to take stands against the introduction of counterfeit components into the marketplace. This topic center informs you of the technical and business assistance available from distributors today.

Avnet president talks trends in electronics supply chain, distribution markets (Sep 3, 2010)

In a new interview, Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM) president Harley Feldberg addresses topics including inventory in the electronics supply chain, how to bring about sustainable growth, and the Asian and Japanese distribution markets.

BTC to distribute Spectrum's custom filtered, specialty connectors for MIL, hi-rel apps (Aug 23, 2010)

BTC’s business specialty is to serve customers who require application-specific connectors that are often non-standard items.

Sullins adds Asia-Pacific distributors (Aug 23, 2010)

Sullins has named Korea's K2 Connector Experts and Wings Technology Enterprise as Asia-Pacific distribution partners.

Digi-Key, Harwin ink global distribution agreement (Aug 23, 2010)

Digi-Key will now distribute Harwin’s 2mm interconnect and surfact mount PCB lines.

Newark now stocking GCT connector lines (Aug 13, 2010)

Newark is promoting over two thousand GCT connector lines.

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