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News Release from: Abacus Group
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 November 2002
Expansion for Nordic distribution
Abacus Group has almost doubled the size of its Nordic central warehouse, and has equipped it with automation to improve throughput and enhance customer service at its Nordic subsidiary Promax
The group is also set to expand its Trident Microsystems display and systems integration business into the Nordic region. The 2200m2 Promax Nordic Distribution Centre is located in Them, Denmark, complementing the recently opened Abacus Distribution Centre in the UK. The facility, already almost double its previous 1200m2 size, can be further expanded by the addition of a mezzanine.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 November 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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It gives Promax' customers the benefit of a large, centrally located, stock of components available for next day shipment anywhere in the Nordic region.
Commenting on the expansion, Peter Busck, Managing Director of Promax, said: "Our strategy is to grow market share by continually improving customer service.
The opening of this enhanced centre for our Nordic customers is one example of that.
The Nordic distribution centre draws on the same logistical technology as the Newcastle-Under-Lyme, England facility, achieving a balance between automation and human involvement to ensure maximum efficiency, flexibility and capacity.
Features include a zonal structure optimised to offer quicker access to frequently accessed parts, bar-code management of storage and picking to minimise errors, FIFO control of stock, and automatic updating of stock levels.
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Trident Microsystems has opened an office in Denmark, bringing a great portfolio of displays technologies, backed by customisation capabilities and the manufacture of display peripherals to Promax customers in the Nordic region.
Claus Rode has been promoted from within Promax to head up the Trident operation in the region working from Denmark, with a brief later to open offices in Sweden, Finland and Norway.
Martin Kent, CEO of Abacus Group, said: "Trident enhances component supply from Promax, by offering a display system integration capability, which many customers don't have in-house.
We see this activity as a key aspect of delivering what our Nordic customers want, and believe there is a real need for such services in the Nordic region.
This is the first time Abacus has located a system integration business in the Nordic region, and we believe that, in Claus Rode we have an excellent manager with the technical understanding and the customer relationships, to build this opportunity".
Claus Rode added: "Trident offers Nordic customers a unique proposition - the commercial buying power of a distribution group with 130 component and system franchises - allied to quality approved design and system integration facilities.
As a result, customers can place business with a single supplier, who will source the components, integrate and deliver to high quality standards at competitive cost".
Through the Trident Nordic office, customers can access the full capabilities of the Trident Microsystems Group.
This encompasses Microversal, which manufactures display interfaces, ASP Infotec which distributes thermal printers, card readers and peripherals, and Trident Displays, which offers one of the most comprehensive display product portfolios in Europe.
These displays can be customised to customers' sometimes very specialised requirements, and delivered as tailored flat panel PCs, semicustom monitors, or even full custom monitors incorporating some or all of a display, a computer, software, packaging, box-build and associated wiring.
Trident has a history of integrating systems for demanding applications, including monitors for mass-transit passenger information, dealing-room monitor consoles with multiple input switching and medical monitors with extra low EMC susceptibility for use with scanners and irradiation equipment.
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