01732 759725 08 NEWS : Distributors Jason Boxall Alison Nixon Andrew Gake EVO acquires CBS, saving 600 jobs across UK EVO, the UK and Ireland’s largest specialist multi-channel business supplies and services distributor, has acquired the trade and assets of business supplies and services provider Complete Business Solutions (CBS), saving more than 600 jobs across the UK. With over £100m sales in 2022, CBS is one of the UK’s largest providers of workplace supplies and associated services, including stationery and office supplies, IT and tech support, copier and printing supplies, workspace equipment and installation, PPE and workwear. EVO CEO Andrew Gale said: “We are delighted to end the uncertainty and bring CBS into the EVO family, which we believe is the best outcome for all. This was very much a team effort, and I am grateful and indeed very proud of the EVO team, our shareholder Endless, and our banking partners Breal Zeta and Leumi ABL, who have worked tirelessly to ensure this acquisition was concluded as quickly as possible. “CBS is a great addition to the EVO group of companies and will operate as a stand-alone business. Our priority over the coming weeks is to restore stability and confidence for CBS employees and, most importantly, to maintain excellent service to the CBS customers.” EVO has annual sales of almost £500 million and a completely integrated sales, marketing, distribution and procurement platform that connects leading brands with its partner network. Every year, it processes 28 million order lines on behalf of partners and delivers more than 16 million parcels to businesses through its own transport fleet. www.evo-group.co.uk Flexible finance from beginning to end TD SYNNEX has launched a new finance offer that lets customers fund investment in new technology solutions without having to find up-front capital and then choose from a flexible set of options at the end of the agreement period. The Flexscription service has been developed in collaboration with CF Corporate Finance and is available through TD SYNNEX’s Tech-as-a-Service platform, which enables partners to offer customers any combination of hardware, software and services on a subscription basis. It differs from other finance or leasing options in that, as well as allowing customers to invest in new technology solutions right away, it provides several options for the end of the agreement. Customers can either return the equipment, roll it on at the same rate, extend for 12 or 24 months, or make a one-off final fee and have indefinite use of the equipment. All options are embedded into the agreement and are set out clearly at the start. Mike Yiannakou, Director, CF Corporate Finance, said: “By offering clear end-ofcontract options, we’re giving the customer greater reassurance and taking the risk out of financing hardware.” https://uk.tdsynnex.com/ Public sector boost for AWS partners TD SYNNEX has extended its multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Amazon Web Services EMEA (AWS) to include public sector business in countries across Europe. The extension gives TD SYNNEX partners access to a wider range of AWS cloud services for national, regional and local governments and public institutions involved in healthcare, education and other nonprofit activities. TD SYNNEX can help partners accelerate their AWS public sector offerings by providing access to dedicated programmatic support; pre-packaged Click2Run solutions based on TD SYNNEX’s Cloud Solutions Factory for AWS; and, with its StreamOne Ion Enterprise platform, a robust tool to simplify and consolidate the management of consumption and billing for AWS services. Jason Boxall, Senior Vice President, Advanced Solution, Europe at TD SYNNEX, said: “Our focus is always on helping our partners to grow and evolve their businesses and we will leverage the combination of specialist local expertise complemented by the regional platforms, programs and solutions architecture that have been core to the success of our collaboration with AWS so far.” https://uk.tdsynnex.com/ Getech Achieves Cyber Essentials Plus Certification Getech, a value-added distributor of edtech and end-user computing solutions, has become one of just 8% of UK businesses to attain Cyber Essentials Plus certification. The Government-backed and industrysupported scheme helps businesses protect themselves against cyber-attack and gives suppliers/customers reassurance that they have controls in place to mitigate the risk from common cyber threats. Getech MD Guy Watts said: “This is a huge achievement for a company like Getech. As we grow our customer base across both public and private sector clients, it’s essential we have robust security measures that surpass the expectations of our customers and users.” He added: “This is the result of an outstanding level of effort from our IT Manager, Michael Peck, who prepared for and got us through the accreditation.” TD SYNNEX extends ecosystems programme to cyber security TD SYNNEX is extending its ecosystems initiative to cyber security to encourage alliance building between partners with complementary digital security skills. Currently being used successfully for manufacturing, healthcare and retail and distribution, the ecosystems programme is designed to help partners with skills and specialisations in different areas to share experiences, ideas and best practices and potentially forge mutually beneficial commercial partnerships. Participants will be able to draw on services and support provided by the TD SYNNEX security practice, including Security Practice Builder, which helps resellers establish their own cybersecurity services business, and the RECON Security Suite of managed and subscription-based services covering identity and access management, security consulting, SOCaaS and backup and recovery. Alison Nixon, Security Business Unit Director at TD SYNNEX, UK, said: “There is a multiplicity of reseller businesses, solutions integrators, service providers and specialists in all the different areas of digital security, but few, if any, have the knowledge and skills they need to offer a complete cybersecurity offering to their end user customers. In addition to that, cybersecurity skills can only be acquired at a huge premium right now. These are significant challenges for partners and one very good way of addressing them is through partnering. “The Cybersecurity Ecosystems community will provide a valuable forum through which partners can explore new possibilities and the different pathways and options that we provide for them to develop their security and data protection business.” https://uk.tdsynnex.com/
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