Exertis has announced a consolidation, which will probably close its Raunds warehouse and distribution facility next year.
The outfit is considering consolidating its stock and warehousing activities into its Burnley Bridge Warehouse.
If it does this, then 50 employees will be picking up their P45s and pink slips, although the company currently says no final decisions have been reached.
It officially says it is entering a consultation phase to explore alternatives that could avert job losses.
Exertis is rumoured to have replaced and cut significant numbers of staff in an organisational reshuffle.
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that more than150 staff have exited the outfit as a result of organisational changes .
However the company is currently advertising for approximately 70 roles this will leave Exertis UK with a slightly reduced headcount than it had in August 2022.
In a statement Exertis said it was a large business, and people left all and joined all the time.
Exertis is launching its Exertis Cybersecurity product throughout Europe.
Since the acquisition of Exertis Enterprise (previously known as Hammer) its cybersecurity unit has been boosted and is now looking for further expansion.
It has new vendor signings, including Seagate, eSentire, Progress, Scylla, Seceon and Veeam.
Exertis will be offering its Exertis Cybersecurity product in the Nordics, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, France and Germany after training from UK security directors and managers.
Exertis Cybersecurity director of sales and commercial Dominic Ryles: “We’re delighted to be rolling out our cybersecurity solution stack across our European offices. We look forward to strengthening our relationships with our European colleagues, partners and customers.”
Exertis UK has appointed Tim Griffin as its new CEO.
The change means Griffin is no longer managing director of parent company, DCC Technology, and willl be replaced by Clive Fitzharris.
Griffin takes direct responsibility for the entire Exertis UK, Retail & B2B operations and oversees other businesses in the UK and Ireland of DCC Technology.
He will also lead a development plan for the business in the UK to drive growth, innovation and market leadership.
“The size of the opportunity in the UK, both now and in the future, is a major prize and I’m excited to be taking the CEO role leading the evolution of our UK business as we drive it onwards to ever-greater success,” Griffin said.
Exertis has been named as US cybersecurity specialist Seceon’s first UK partner.
Seceon’s claim to fame is creating AI driven cyber threat detection and fixing platforms for enterprises and MSSPs. It is based in Massachusetts, and has an MSSP roster of more than 200.
Exertis Enterprise sales boss Dominic Ryles said he was excited to have Seceon join the Exertis Enterprise – Security solution stack as it gives our channel partners the tools they need to better equip themselves for visibility and actionable insights into the types of malicious threats that are targeting organisations today.
Nuvias has announced an elite club of channel players called the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC).
The consortium members include Exclusive Networks, Exertis, Ingram Micro, Infinigate, CMS Distribution and Arrow Electronics are responsible for more than $150 billion of sales of products, services and solutions.
Nuvias is a $750 million company with offices across Europe, it claims.
Exertis has written a cheque for the Almo Corporation in a move it touts as “the biggest yet” in the history of parent company DCC.
The distributor’s move extends its presence in the Pro AV sector and ramps up its expansion across the pond.
DCC Technology & Exertis MD, Tim Griffin said the acquisition of Almo Corporation is the largest in DCC’s history and signals his outfit’s confident and ambitious intent to expand DCC Technology.
Exertis parent DCC has issued an interim report showing that the business continues to improve.
The group, which operates in technology, healthcare and the oil and LPG market, overall saw its revenues improve by 26.8 percent to £7.518 billion from £5.931 billion in the equivalent period last year.
DCC Technology saw improved revenues, up 6.5 percent to £27.2 million from £25.5 million for the six months ended 30 September 2021. Operating profits were also up by 6.5 percent to £27.2 million and operating margin improved to 1.4 percent from 1.3 percent.
Exertis has rejoined the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC) after five years.
The GTDC is a worldwide association whose members generate more than $150bn in annual sales. Members include distribution heavyweights including Ingram Micro, Synnex, Tech Data, Arrow and Exclusive Networks. Exertis was part of the GTDC until 2016 when it became a founding member of an EMEA-focused rival distribution group called the Technology Channels Alliance (TCA). The TCA’s reason for existence was that European members believed it was too dominated by US-based distributors.
Exertis has spruced up its services to make it easier for resellers to provide customers with an end-to-end “solution”.
Company managing director, Rod McCarthy designed the plan which involves covering six areas: consult, deploy, maintain, manage, assist and recover.
The idea is to point resellers towards a range of services networking, security, software, AV, print, mobile management and recycling and refurbishment.
Services will come from its support centres in the UK and Ireland, staffed with tech experts which will provide resellers with 24/7 assistance.
To be frank, I hadn’t realised the range of products Chinese giant Huawei made, until I visited its Chinese expo in Shanghai two weeks ago. And boxes, whether smartphones or servers, need shifting.
I first met Huawei executives in 2007 in Palermo, Sicily, when it introduced an infrastructure product to the British market.
Exertis is boosting its enterprise audiovisual product suite by adding Lenovo’s ThinkSmart Hub 500 and ThinkSmart Hub 700.
Both AV setups are workspace collaboration tools – the ThinkSmart Hub 500 offers support for Skype calls and content sharing and the ThinkSmart Hub 700 provides multiple communication platforms, including Zoom.
Beta Distribution has crased owing £36 million according to a recently filed administrator’s report.
Deloitte was appointed as administrator for the failing distributer in October, and it declared that Beta did not have enough money to cover debts owed to unsecured creditors.
“We do not think that the companies have sufficient property to enable a distribution to be made to unsecured creditors,” the letter said.
Beta reported a £186 million turnover in its last financial year ending 31 March 2017 but owed over £14 million to trade creditors, and three million to the tax man.
Exertis has merged its enterprise division with Hammer and formed a new business
The distributor acquired Hammer in 2016 and, until now, the business had continued to operate as a separate entity.
The newly merged organisation will be known as Exertis Hammer. it will be headed by Hammer boss James Ward who will reporting to Exertis’ UK managing director Paul Bryan.
Bryan said: “With the integration of the Hammer and Exertis enterprise commercial and sales teams we will provide even greater value to our customers by offering an enhanced vendor portfolio, with an extensive professional services wrap, and significant employee expertise that can address the differing requirements of our customers and their vertical markets.
“James [Ward], with his experience, industry pedigree and business acumen is the ideal person to lead our enterprise business both in the UK and across Europe where Hammer already has successful operations in several countries.”
The newly combined portfolio now includes components, servers, storage, networking, security, wireless, unified communications, software and cloud, Exertis said.
Ward added: “The name itself is the main change here, but at the same time this is an opportunity to refocus on our customers and core strengths with better utilisation of our complete enterprise skill sets, to deliver a more comprehensive and compelling offering to our customers.
“It’s an exciting time for our enterprise business and with the financial strength and support of our parent company, we aim to capitalise on the solid foundations we have built in Hammer’s overseas operations, further broadening our value-added distribution capabilities and footprint across Europe.”
Exertis is reporting a £3 billion revenue and market share gains in the audiovisual, gaming and components spaces.
For the year ending 31 March 2018, DCC Technology, which trades as Exertis, saw revenue climb 14.7 percent year on year to £3.08 billion while operating profit was up 16.3 percent to £47.8 million.
Parent DCC, which plays in some other spaces including oil and healthcare, saw revenue increase 16.3 percent year on year to £14.3 billion (excluding the contribution from DCC Environmental, which was sold in May 2017).
Exertis also highlighted the contributions from recently acquired organisations MTR and Hypertec which helped the bottom line.
In an earnings report DCC said: “In the UK, DCC Technology’s largest market, the business achieved very strong revenue and profit growth, driven by market share gains and growth in key product categories including audiovisual, components and gaming.
“The business continued to invest in both its product and service capability to allow it to take advantage of growth opportunities in audiovisual, home automation, enterprise software and consumer product solutions.
“Hammer, acquired in December 2016, achieved strong growth in sales of server and storage products into key markets, including the datacentre market.
“The acquisition of MTR in July 2017 has allowed DCC Technology to enhance its service offering in the mobile market, strengthening its relationships with key vendor and retail partners. The business has performed very strongly since acquisition and provided a platform to extend its service offering outside the UK.”
DCC also said that Exertis’ new UK distribution centre is operational, with most of its original warehousing now sold off.
It added that the Irish arm of the business delivered “strong organic growth”, while the French business is looking to “significantly reduce costs”, with its conditions for its consumer products business remaining “very challenging”.
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