Anglia, the UK’s largest privately-owned electronic component distributor, grew sales by 17.5% in 2006, with annual sales through the $65 million mark , in stark contrast with the overall performance of UK distribution that, according to the Association of Franchised Distributors of Electronic Components (AFDEC) in its recently released figures, achieved only 5.3% year-on-year expansion in 2006.

Anglia has signed a franchise agreement to distribute GPS frequency sources with Rakon of New Zealand. Rakon is a leader in temperature controlled crystal oscillators (TCXOs) for GPS systems with greater than 50% market share. GPS applications demand TCXOs with exceptionally high levels of frequency stability and resistance to shock and vibration, particularly as many systems are used in mobile and portable environments where wide temperature ran...

Anglia has set up a dedicated displays division to provide enhanced technical support to its customers, particularly with respect to the integration of display systems. Many of today’s colour displays need external controllers, inverters and drivers, in addition to requiring specialist connectors and cables. Anglia’s displays division, headed by Jackie Kingston, aims to help customers by recommending and supplying suitable combinations of dev...

Anglia has announced that it has been appointed by Avago Technologies as UK and Ireland distributor for its optoelectronic components. Steffi Kircher, Avago’s sales director for distribution in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said, “Anglia’s solid relationships in Northern Europe enable us to reach a large base of mid-tier OEMs and EMS companies. This customer base penetrates the local mid-tier sector very well and will give us access ...

Anglia has added a memory and microcontrollers franchise from Ramtron to broaden its offering into embedded design applications. Ramtron designs and manufactures specialised memories and microcontrollers for metering, computing, automotive, consumer, industrial, scientific and medical applications. The company's ferroelctric RAM (FRAM) products combine the non-volatile data storage capability of ROM with the benefits of RAM, which include a high ...

Anglia has been nominated as “Outstanding Regional European Distributor” by circuit protection specialist, Raychem, a division of Tyco Electronics. The award, for Northern Europe, was won in the face of competition from four other distributors, including the world’s largest. Raychem judges the performance of its distributors on sales growth, number of design registrations, conversion of design registrations, sales of new products, and parti...

As part of its continuing expansion into the embedded applications market, Anglia has won a franchise to distribute a range of socket modems from Multitech. Multitech employs a universal socket into which conventional, GSM wireless or Ethernet modems can be connected without changes to surrounding hardware.

In its first move into the Industrial Security Medical (ISM) wireless market, Anglia has singed a franchise agreement with Jennic to distribute their innovative single chip JN5121 2.4 GHz RF microcontroller that is compliant with IEEE802.15.4 and ZigBee standards. The device is targeted at integrated solutions for economical sensor networks. Anglia now offers chips, evaluation kits, modules, network stacks and development tools. The distributor w...

Anglia has introduced significant enhancements to its popular PartTracker Web site, which now automatically notifies users of any changes to parts they have already purchased, or of any termination in the supply of particular parts.

Just published by Anglia, the 116 page “Frequency Data Book” describes a host of frequency generators, filters and saw devices in depth. Full data sheets are included for thousands of products including ceramic resonators, crystals, femto clocks, varactor and voltage controlled oscillators, temperature and oven controlled oscillators, and real time clock modules.

Just published by Anglia, the 116 page “Frequency Data Book” describes a host of frequency generators, filters and saw devices in depth. Full data sheets are included for thousands of products including ceramic resonators, crystals, femto clocks, varactor and voltage controlled oscillators, temperature and oven controlled oscillators, and real time clock modules.

Anglia Components has become sole UK distributor franchise for NemeriX, the Swiss manufacturer of low power chip sets for GPS applications. Power consumption of each chip set is typically 25 mW at 1 fix per second, making the devices ideal for battery-powered portable applications. NemeriX's products include analogue RF receivers, digital baseband processors and integrated devices that combine SiGe (Silicon Germanium) RF and standard CMOS baseba...

Following a year of exceptional growth, Anglia is looking to recruit a further 25 staff to boost its workforce by 10%. Some of the new positions are field-based, while others will be located at the Company’s headquarters in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

Anglia and Microchip have announced the launch of the Analog2go.com Website, which allows customers to rapidly find and source samples from Microchip’s extensive range of analogue semiconductor products. The samples will be supplied from Anglia’s stock in its UK warehouse.

Anglia has signed a UK and Ireland distribution agreement with Japanese connector manufacturer Hirose. Hirose manufactures a wide range of connectors for applications that include automotive, digital cameras and digital video cameras, mobile phones and PDAs, notebook PCs, DVD recorders, plasma display panels, as well as a range of RF and microwave components.

Anglia has announced that it has presented Murata Electronics (UK) Limited with the Anglia Supplier of the Year Award for 2005/2006. The award acknowledges the ongoing high level of support, both technically and commercially, that Murata provides to Anglia as one of its major distributors, and also the key role that the Murata product range has played in Anglia’s success over the past year.

Anglia has signed a UK and Ireland distribution agreement with Microchip Technology. It is Anglia’s fifth new semiconductor signing in recent months.

Anglia has restructured its business to provide a foundation for continued profitable growth. Under the new organisation the current Group Managing Director, Steve Rawlins, will take over the role of CEO from the founder Bill Ingram, who will become President of the Company.

Anglia has signed a UK and Ireland distribution agreement with Schurter, the Swiss manufacturer of fuses and fuse holders, mains connectors, EMC and input systems. systems. Schurter is based in Lucerne and has production plants in both Europe and Asia.

Anglia has signed Diodes Incorporated, the US manufacturer of discrete semiconductor devices based in Westlake Village, California.