Auction-style site aims to thwart grey market

www.edn.com | May 5, 2008

Semicentral.com, an online electronics supply chain service, aims to bring together chip manufactures, OEMs, CEMs, and franchise distribution in an auction-style community to oppose the grey market’s counterfeit component issues.

http://www.edn.com/article/CA6556508.html?nid=2551

Counterfeit product declines as grey market struggles in 2008

www.electronicsweekly.com | Jan 23, 2008

Happy new year … or is it? For some it may not be such a happy one, with single digit projections, increasing problems with counterfeit products, and less product that is hard to find, allocated, or doesn’t already have an obsolescence solution leading to a precarious 2008 for many grey market

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2008/01/23/42986/counterfeit-product-declines-as-grey-market-struggles-in.htm

Intellect's 20th PCIF Annual Conference - News Search on EMSNow

Focusing on the FutureDate: 15/10/2003Start Time: 09:30 Finish Time: 17:30 Supported by: CircuiTree, Circuit World Venue: Cheltenham Park Hotel Chair: Alun Morgan, Corporate V.P.

http://www.emsnow.com/newsarchives/archivedetails.cfm?ID=2814

Welcome Richard Tapping to Critical Links

www.edn.com | Apr 23, 2008

For this supply chain blog, Electronic News has recruited some of the supply chain’s most influential executives who are truly linked into the market to contribute their views of the industry and its most critical topics -- RoHS, distribution, WEEE, parts databases, inventory levels, pricing, China

http://www.edn.com/blog/570000257/post/830025283.html?nid=3614

Abacus Group -

The Company was floated as Abacus Group Plc on the UK stock exchange in November 1993. In October 1994 the Company made its first international acquisition with the acquisition of Promax. In December 1995, the group merged with Polar Electronics a UK distributor and in 1999 acquired Micromark.

http://www.abacus-group.co.uk/jkcm/default.aspx?pg=120

Abacus Group Plc.

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http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/view.php?id=17805

Balfour Beatty - Regulatory News item

LONDON--(Business Wire)-- DEALINGS BY CONNECTED EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADERS (Rule 38.5 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers) 1. KEY INFORMATION Name of exempt principal trader ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

http://www.balfourbeatty.com/bby/investors/rns/rnsitem?id=1135076343nBW205325a&t=popup

Computer

K.) Limited (1) Hills Components Limited (1) Kern Limited (1) Kye Systems Uk Limited (1) Miniland Tech. Limited (1) Mt Electronics Ltd (1) Oki Europe Limited (3) Radica U.K. Limited (1) Reynolds & Reynolds Automotive (Uk) Limited (1) Adp Dealer Services Uk Limited (1) Openpsl Limited (2) Acal I.

http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/search.php?s=products&q=Computer