ARCOL Distributor of the Year award 2014 commends RS for achieving the fastest, most efficient delivery across its range of resistors

OXFORD, UK, 4 December, 2014 - RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has been nominated as Distributor of the Year 2014 by ARCOL, a specialist in the design and manufacture of resistor technology. The award acknowledges the exemplary efforts undertaken by RS to provide customers globally with fast access to this range of premium quality resistors.

RS has been distributing ARCOL products for more than three decades, and today stocks in excess of 1500 panel-mount, surface-mount, and through-hole fixed resistors targeted at developers of industrial, renewable energy, mil/aero and automotive electronics applications.

"Prompt, reliable service is critically important to our reputation and success," said Mike Pritchard, Managing Director of ARCOL. "RS is hugely supportive in ensuring that once products leave our UK manufacturing facility they are quickly stocked at the RS distribution centres around the world and accessible to customers in the shortest possible timeframe. The unmatched sales results we have achieved through RS are strong evidence of this efficient logistics process, and we value them highly as a distribution partner."

"ARCOL is renowned for its high quality resistors and adds value through attentive personal service," said Kevin McCormack, Global Head of IP&E at RS Components. "At RS, we aim to safeguard and augment the reputation of valued suppliers such as ARCOL by providing fast, easy access to a breadth of products anywhere in the world. We are able to achieve this through our advanced transactional website and our network of global distribution centres, which enable us to guarantee same-day despatch from stock in many countries."  

Photo caption (left to right):
Mike Pritchard, ARCOL; Joanne Bradbury, RS Components; Michelle McKay, RS Components.

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About RS Components
RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc, the global distributor for engineers. With operations in 32 countries, we offer around 500,000 products through the internet, catalogues and at trade counters to over one million customers, shipping more than 44,000 parcels a day. Our products, sourced from 2,500 leading suppliers, include semiconductors, interconnect, passives and electromechanical, automation and control, electrical, test and measurement, tools and consumables.

Electrocomponents is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the last financial year ended 31 March 2014 had revenues of £1.27bn.

For more information, please visit the website at www.rs-components.com.

Editorial Contacts:
Lisa Townsend
PR Manager - EMEA
RS Components
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Aakriti Kaushik
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RS Components
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