element14 wins ‘Outstanding Performance for
Distributor’
from FCI for the second consecutive year
Singapore, 06 May, 2011 – element14 (formerly Farnell), the industry’s first fusion of commerce and community supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals worldwide, is proud to announce that it was awarded the “Outstanding Performance for Distributor” award from FCI for the second year running at the annual FCI Electronics Asia Pacific Distribution conference held at Lijiang, China. This accolade recognises element14’s excellent achievements for product inventory, customer services, and sales performance.
element14 first won the coveted “FCI Outstanding Performance – Fastest Growing Distributor” Award in 2010 which acknowledges the firm’s rapid growth and enhanced portfolio of solutions to the design engineering community in the Asia Pacific region for 2009. element14 emerged as the winner due to the firm’s consistent and outstanding results in providing complete end-to-end solutions for design, maintenance and repair engineers and purchasing professionals. element14 is also the only multi-channel, high service distributor to win the award this year.
element14’s extensive inventory distributed amongst its three distribution hubs located in Singapore, Sydney and Shanghai in addition to the innovative range of customer services have been key factors in driving element14’s success in the electronics components distribution market. The ease-of-purchase and multiple channels flexibility with no minimum quantity and value as well as next-day delivery ensure an exceptional experience for customers. In addition, real time support is available for the engineering community via element14 site and its 24/7 customer service and 24/5 online technical support. The fusion of the online community serves as a platform for element14 members to exchange ideas with each and interact with the component’s manufacturers for more technical advice.
“element14 have proven itself to be a leader in the electronics components distribution market with their remarkable progress and solid performance over the past two years,” said Douglas Choo, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing, FCI Electronics. “element14’s innovative solutions to address the evolving challenges faced by the region’s electronic design engineers have allowed the design engineering community to gain a more in-depth understanding of FCI products and use our components for a wider range of applications.”
“Winning the award for the second time reaffirms our unwavering dedication to meet and exceed the challenges faced by our customers as well as to provide a strategic and efficient distribution channel that will allow our partners to thrive in the region,” said William Chong, Regional Director of Supplier, Product and Purchasing Management, element14, Asia Pacific. “This award marks another milestone in our partnership with FCI and further strengthens our commitment to bring cutting-edge and innovative connectivity solutions to our customers in the Asia Pacific.”
High-quality and versatile range of connectivity solutions
According to the research firm, Bishop and Associates, connector sales in Asia Pacific experienced the greatest global growth of 40 percent in the last year. In order to meet this colossal demand for high performance connectors in the region, element14 introduced a wide range connectivity solutions to its customers, which includes components from FCI, one of the world’s leading connector manufacturers. Over 1300 FCI connectors are stocked in element14’s regional inventory with next day delivery in most of Asia Pacific and 3000 other FCI connectivity solutions available via its global inventory.
element14 stocks a versatile range of interconnect systems solutions which includes FCI’s leading products such as Mezzselect, High Speed I/O ranges, Eyemax & Densishield, Power I/O solutions connectors, Printed Circuit Board signal and power terminal blocks and board level FFC/FPC ranges.
Engineers can download detailed specifications of the FCI connectors available in their region and share feedback or queries they have via element14’s local online portal http://sg.element14.com/fci.
Media Contacts:
Christina Loh / Eileen Sim Communications element14 Asia Pacific Tel: +65 6788 0300 Email: cloh@element14.com / esim@element14.com | Agency Contacts : Karun Arya / Choon Hong Lim Text100 Global Public Relations Tel: +65 6603 9000 Email: element14@text100.com.sg
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About element14
element14 offers more than 130,000 products for next-day delivery for most cities in Asia Pacific from its three distribution hubs located in Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney. The company offers 24/7 telephone support for customers, 24/5 online technical support, and catalogue sales, with a hassle-free return policy.
In Singapore, please visit http://sg.element14.com/. This eCommerce site is integrated with the Group’s global online Community portal (www.element14.com).
Worldwide, element14 is the first collaborative community, research portal and eCommerce website for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts. The website provides product data, design tools, technology information and top brand components to seamlessly facilitate the design process; users can consult industry experts and collaborate with peers around the globe. element14 online Community is sponsored by Premier Farnell plc (LSE: pfl).
About Premier Farnell
Premier Farnell plc is leading the way in the high service, multi-channel provision of essential products, information, software and technology solutions to electronic design engineers, maintenance and repair engineers and purchasing professionals globally. Its differentiated proposition includes 29 local language transactional websites, and the critically important element14 ecommunity for design engineers – an industry first (www.element14.com). With sales last year of £990.8m and underlying profits of £93.3m the Group distributes its comprehensive portfolio of products and services throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, supported by a global supply chain of over 3,500 suppliers and an inventory profile developed to anticipate and meet its customers’ needs. Recently awarded Platinum status by the Business in the Community Corporate Responsibility Index the business takes its CSR commitments very seriously.
While global in scope, Premier Farnell recognises the individual needs of each market and has continued to internationalise its model accordingly, trading locally under different brand names. Its primary electronics businesses trade as Farnell in Europe, Newark in the US, Canada and Mexico and Farnell Newark in Brazil. Across Asia Pacific the business trades as element14.
Key facts
- Operations in 35 different countries
- 4,100 employees
- Over 2 million customer contacts in 156 industries
- Over 3,500 leading suppliers
- Over 400,000 products stocked with access to over four million more on demand
- Global leader in legislation RoHS, WEEE, REACH
For more information, please visit www.premierfarnell.com
About FCI
FCI was established in 1988 and 20 years later, FCI has become one of the largest connector manufacturers. FCI is actively committed to product innovation and they have 14 R&D centers worldwide have already registered several thousand patents with licensing agreements.
All around the world, our R&D teams work to make FCI connectors faster and higher density. FCI conceive cutting-edge products for very high-speed transmission network, on the burgeoning electrical vehicles market. And they design connectors to withstand ever harsher weather conditions. Their successes in product miniaturization have helped to make everyday technology more compact and more manageable.
For more information, please visit: http://www.fci.com/index.php?lang=en
