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Following a formal OJEU tender, Crown Commercial
Service has awarded Banner a multi-million pound,
four-year contract to supply the UK public sector with
office products, paper, catering, janitorial, small business
machines and electronic media.
Managing Director, Richard Costin said: “I am delighted that
we have won this new Framework. The Banner team has worked
tirelessly in winning this bid and I look forward to increasing the
number of organisations that join and benefit from the added value
that this new agreement offers the public sector.”
Banner wins public sector contract
Distributor of the Year
Wick Hill, a specialist in the value-added
distribution of high growth security solutions, has
won the ‘Distributor of the Year’ award at the
IT Europa European IT and Software Excellence
Awards 2016. The pan-European awards
recognise best practice and service excellence in
the IT community.
Rapid evolution
VOW is celebrating the rapid take-up of the
Evolve-IT e-commerce package by resellers
in the UK and Ireland. Within 12 months of
its launch, over 70% of Smooth-e users have
already converted to the e-commerce platform
developed by Evolution Software. Evolve-IT
gives resellers and their customers rapid access
to VOW’s eplus and epremium catalogues,
integrating with leading back-office solutions
such as Horizon, Progress, Vision, Prima, Pulse,
Calidore, OP-Connect, Oasis and Microsoft
Dynamics NA.
Midshire wins ‘One
Stop’ contract
Midshire has won a contract to supply a
record number of Ricoh GELJET printers
to the One Stop Stores chain of more
than 900 convenience stores, following
successful trials in 12 stores across three
regions.
Amanda Sanderson from One Stop Stores
said: “The Ricoh devices were chosen because
of their ease of use, low maintenance, green
impact, print quality and time saving features. As
well as saving staff time and space in-store, the
environmental aspect was a key consideration
for me when working on the project. The sizeable
reduction in power consumption significantly
lowered our overall carbon footprint, which was
an important factor.”
Samsung returns with
Exertis
Marking Samsung’s return to the
Windows PC market, the Galaxy TabPro
S 2-in-1 Windows 10 device is available
exclusively from Exertis.
It is available in three versions to suit all
home and business needs, including Home
and Pro Wi-Fi models and a ProLTE model that
delivers full blown portability and lightning fast
4G connection.
An Exertis evaluation programme enables
all models to be trialled and evaluated for up to
four weeks.
Exertis is also the exclusive distribution partner
for Samsung’s interactive large format display – a
PC-free, ‘out-of-the-box’ interactive solution that
requires no extra hardware or cables.
Synaxon partners with
A+K
Reseller services group Synaxon UK has
entered into a partnership with audio
visual distributor Anders+Kern (A+K),
giving members access to A+K’s exclusive
range of digital signage, projectors, room
booking solutions and technical services.
Synaxon UK Managing Director Derek Jones,
said: “Our members can purchase the full A+K
product range via the EGIS platform, or directly
from A+K with all of their related services and
support. A+K are providing a very specialist and
focused service to our members in a growing area
of the market. There is very real potential for B2B
resellers to grow their audio visual equipment and
solutions sales, especially within the education
sector, so this really is a great opportunity for
most Synaxon members.”
Cloud bundle for cloud
novices
Data centre operator Next Generation
Data and its channel distribution partner
Exertis UK have introduced a data centre-
as-a-service (DCaaS) bundle for resellers
whose customers are taking their first
steps into cloud services, such as unified
communications hosting and disaster
recovery management.
Combining rack server hardware from the likes
of Dell, Lenovo and Fujitsu and NGD’s Data Cube
ready-to-run DCaaS hosting platform, the bundle
includes a quarter rack configuration, connectivity,
power supply, cooling infrastructure and a wide
range of high speed network connectivity options.
Half rack and full racks are also available. The
solution is run through Exertis’ own billing system,
which allows resellers to bill end users with their
own logo and headers without having to invest in a
platform of their own.
Gareth Bray, head of commercial enterprise
at Exertis, said: “For under £15 per day our data
centre infrastructure package allows resellers
easy access to high margin annuity revenues,
plus additional product and accessories sales
opportunities, all with the peace of mind that
comes from having NGD’s secure, resilient data
centre facilities and engineering support services
behind them.”
Integra and VOW
extend trading
agreement
Integra and VOW have announced a three-
year extended Trading Agreement to run
until the end of 2019.
Integra Purchasing Director Neil Basham said:
“I am delighted to be continuing our already
strong partnership, which began over 30 years
ago. During that time we have experienced many
changes and challenges within the industry, and
even within the group itself, but VOW has never
faltered in its commitment to Integra and our
members.”
Martin Weedall, VOW’s National Sales
Director, added: “We remain fully committed
to working in partnership with the group. We
see Integra playing a fundamental role in our
plans for growth within the dealer channel and
look forward to the next phase of our journey
together.”
Spicers committed to
wholesaling excellence
Wholesaler Spicers is continuing to develop
its operational infrastructure to support dealer
customers and create additional capacity
for growth. It has retained a major Regional
Distribution Centre in London to service the London
and home counties market, and is continuing to
reconfigure its Smethwick site, which is due to go
live next year.
