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| COMPUTERLINKS bucks industry trend with sustained organic growthDistributor’s revenues grow 26 per cent in first three quarters of 2012
By: COMPUTERLINKS The increase in revenue has been attributed to purely organic growth of the distributor that operates across 23 countries and employs over 600 staff worldwide. “This is validation of our next generation distribution strategy and the expansion of our business into new geographies. In the last 12 months we’ve opened five new locations in India alone, which are already operating profitably and contributing to the success of the company,” said Stephan Link, CEO and founder of COMPUTERLINKS AG. “Our heritage and strength in IT security and Internet technologies have allowed us to operate largely unaffected by recent economic fluctuations. These results demonstrate our sustained focus on delivering exceptional service to our partners and responding quickly to their evolving needs to deliver cloud and mobile solutions to their clients.” Since the engagement of EQUISTONE Partners Europe (formerly Barclays Private Equity) in August 2008, COMPUTERLINKS has re-engineered its business and developed a range of channel-centric services designed to deliver greater margin opportunities for its channel partners. Key milestones in the development of its next generation distribution strategy include: • 2009 – Global Support Centre opened; a dedicated 24x7 telephone support centre to enable IT resellers to provide round-the-clock support for networking and IT security operations to their clients • 2010 – Virtualisation Practice launched; a suite of professional services to provide specialist expertise and additional resource to enable its partners to be better equipped and benefit from higher margins when delivering virtualisation solutions • 2010 - ALVEA Services launched; a portfolio of aggregated cloud and managed services for the IT channel including Infrastructure, Cloud Attached Storage and Managed DNS • 2011 – COMPUTERLINKS Next Generation Data Centre launched; a portfolio of tools and support services to enable resellers to deliver solutions to organisations building out their next generation data centre or server room “IT security and Internet-based technologies around cloud and mobility are highly consulting-intensive markets,” said Link. “Our continued investment in these growth markets allows us to contribute significantly to the success of our customers by providing exceptional customer service in sales, marketing, logistics and technical support. We are therefore extremely positive about the future.” -ENDS- About COMPUTERLINKS COMPUTERLINKS is the next generation distributor of IT security, network performance and Internet technology, providing UK and Irish channel partners with reliable, supported solutions from world-leading hardware and software manufacturers and service providers. COMPUTERLINKS concentrates on dynamic technologies such as cloud computing, virtualisation, and the growing area of IP Physical Security. It provides a comprehensive and complementary product portfolio, backed by an extensive range of knowledge-based professional and managed services, to ensure its channel partners deliver the right solutions to their customers. COMPUTERLINKS is 100 per cent committed to the two-tier channel and delivers profitable growth to its partners and competitive advantage to their customers by providing a full-service package of technical, sales and marketing support, practical training and efficient logistics. The company currently has over 600 employees operating across 23 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.computerlinks.co.uk For further information about this news please contact: Joanne Smith Goode Communications +44 (0) 1491 873 323 joanne.smith@ Peter McEvoy COMPUTERLINKS +44 (0) 1638 569 600 peter.mcevoy@ End
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