Trade show postponements have become standard operating procedure during the Covid-19 outbreak, and rightly so. Last week’s cancellation of the Electronic Distribution Show (EDS) also qualifies as historic. The show has been around in one form or another since the 1930s and has suspended assembly only during World War II. EDS was scheduled for May…
An omnichannel strategy is great for customer service, but it can be challenging to implement. Omnichannel requires a fine-tuned system that functions across multiple channels, mostly in-store and online. No matter where the customer interacts with the company, the experience is the same. This strategy isn’t to be confused with multichannel marketing, which only uses…
It’s been more than six weeks since the first death from China’s coronavirus — Covid-19 — epidemic was reported in the city of Wuhan. It has since claimed lives in other nations and remains a global epidemic which, as of February 19, had killed 2,000 people, all but a handful of them in China. Remarkably, the global…
If your fulfillment team ships all next-day deliveries via overnight carrier services, you are almost certainly overpaying carriers and adding to your cost of distribution. This is especially true during the holidays when consumers’ love of buying electronics goes into hyperdrive. With the holiday shopping season in full swing, electronics remain a top holiday gifting…
WPG Holdings Co.’s bid to acquire a 30 percent stake in rival distributor WT Microelectronics Co. is meeting resistance from WT Micro executives and workers. During a late November media briefing in Taiwan, WT Micro vowed to resist the takeover. WT Microelectronics will never relinquish control of the company’s operations but will safeguard the interests…
Yageo Corp.’s $1.8 billion acquisition of Kemet Corp. will unite two leading component makers into a $3 billion powerhouse in the interconnect, passives and electromechanical (IP&E) market. The move will expand both companies’ global footprint, market penetration and product portfolios. “Together with Yageo, we will have an enhanced global footprint and be better able to…
Expectations for an upturn in electronics component demand have been pushed out to the second half of 2020, and the road to recovery passes directly through global trade policy, leading analysts say. The outlook for Q4 is grim as component demand deteriorates further, Morgan Stanley said in its Q3 distribution survey. “The narrative of a…
Texas Instruments, a longtime supplier to Avnet Inc., will discontinue its relationship with the global distributor as of Dec. 31, 2020. TI’s products account for roughly 10 percent of Avnet’s sales, which reached $19.5 billion in fiscal 2019. TI notified Avnet of its decision on Oct. 1, citing the evolution of its channel strategy. TI…
Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH and AP Memory Technology Corp., a Taiwan Stock Exchange listed company and one of the world’s leading suppliers of IoT RAM, Specialty DRAM and AI memory solutions, have entered into a global distribution agreement. The agreement encompasses all of AP Memory’s products and is already in effect. As a result of…
Buyers probably won’t see a shakeup in the distribution channel as Infineon Technologies embarks on its $10 billion acquisition of Cypress Semiconductors. Both chip companies sell through global volume distributors Arrow Electronics Inc., Avnet Inc. and Future Electronics Inc. They also have Digi-Key, Mouser and Newark in common, small-volume (or “catalog”) distributors that cater to…