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Avnet expands ASEAN footprint by acquiring assets of Indonesia’s Datamation

Strategic investment by Avnet will expand its ASEAN coverage and will establish a platform to grow its IT solutions distribution business. Avnet has just acquired some of the assets of Indonesia’s  PT Datamation Purwana Utama and PT Mitra Bisinfo Utama (Datamation). Founded in 1990, Datamation is a value-added IT distributor providing server, storage and software products to enterprise system integrators and resellers throughout Indonesia...

Strategic investment by Avnet will expand its ASEAN coverage and will establish a platform to grow its IT solutions distribution business. Avnet has just acquired some of the assets of Indonesia’s  PT Datamation Purwana Utama and PT Mitra Bisinfo Utama (Datamation). Founded in 1990, Datamation is a value-added IT distributor providing server, storage and software products to enterprise system integrators and resellers throughout Indonesia.

The operations of Datamation will be integrated into Avnet Technology Solutions’ Asia-Pacific business. The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive to earnings and supports Avnet’s return on capital goals.

From its headquarters in Jakarta and a sales office in Surabaya, Datamation distributes a range of IT infrastructure products from leading suppliers including APC, HP, IBM, Lenovo NetApp and VMware. With more than 175 employees supporting 1,400 value-added resellers, Datamation generated revenue of approximately US$60 million in calendar 2009.

“This acquisition in Indonesia supports our strategic intent to further expand our footprint into emerging markets,” commented Phil Gallagher, President, Avnet Technology Solutions, Global. “As we increase our exposure to these fast-growing markets and build on our global supplier relationships we will accelerate our organic growth rate.”

* As a global technology sales and marketing organization, Avnet Technology Solutions has sales divisions focused on specific customer segments and a select line card strategy enabling attention to the needs of its customers and suppliers. For fiscal year 2009, the group served customers in more than 35 countries and generated US$7.04 billion in annual revenue.

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