EET Europarts buys French distributor Heimdal

EET Europarts has acquired French POS distributor Heimdal Distribution. Heimdal is a focused Zebra distributor and specialised in equipment dedicated to mobile automatic identification and logistics. John Thomas, group CEO at EET Group, said: "Acquisitions are an important part of our overall growth strategy, and a contributing factor to our successful growth of the POS and auto-ID business. During the last couple of years, we have grown the business substantially, both organic as well as through acquisitions.” Read full story

Harvey Norman expands in East Malaysia

Asia Pacific tech retailer Harvey Norman is expanding in East Malaysia, opening an anchor store at the Vivacity Megamall in Kuching. Harvey Norman becomes the fourth anchor tenant in the mall and its new outlet will span almost 47000 square feet. The move to open a store in East Malaysia forms part of the retailer’s omnichannel strategy. Harvey Norman Malaysia has been handling more than 10000 online transactions from customers in East Malaysia, even though the company did not have a physical retail presence in the region. Read full story

Courts names new CEO in Indonesia

Singapore-based tech retailer Courts has appointed a new boss for its operation in Indonesia. Joseph Greenway has been named as the new country CEO. Greenway rejoins Courts after two years as COO of Fantastic Furniture in Australia. Prior to that, Greenway spent 15 years at Courts in a variety of executive roles in Singapore and Malaysia. The appointment comes after Roy Santoso resigned from his role as Indonesia country CEO at Courts to pursue other career opportunities. Read full story

PocketBook targets APAC expansion

PocketBook has confirmed its participation at DISTREE Asia Pacific (APAC) 2017. Pocketbook offers OEM and ODM business solutions for e-reading including devices, reading apps, cloud platforms for partners, plus full technical and service support. DISTREE APAC 2017, which takes place in Singapore on November 8-10th, will give the Pocketbook team the chance to hold pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with APAC’s leading distributors, plus senior executives from some of the region’s top retailers and e-tailers. Read full story

DISTREE Russia completes successful B2B and B2C tech channel event in Moscow

DISTREE Russia 2017 took place from the 21st to 23rd June in Moscow, Russia. Buyers and senior executives from more than 260 channel partners took part in thousands of pre-scheduled meetings with exhibitors. This year’s event once again spanned both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) channels. The channel delegate base comprised resellers, retailers and e-tailers from across Russia & CIS. Read full feature

GfK to deliver opening keynote on consumer tech trends at DISTREE Russia 2017

DISTREE Russia has confirmed that GfK is an official Event Partner for this year’s channel event, which takes place at Hotel Yahonty in Moscow on the 21-23rd June 2017. As an official Event Partner, GfK will deliver the opening keynote, two workshop sessions and a VIP Breakfast Briefing during the event. Read full feature