
Hmmmm
Are they truly the oldest? Guess depends on definition of when it was founded.
Northamber was found in 1980, SCC was founded 5 years earlier in 1975, although it was initially SCR & SCS, so I guess it's when you class the founding as
UK wholesaler Northamber swung to a dramatic loss in fiscal '13 caused by a costly restructure, sliding commodity product sales and eroding margins. The Surrey-based distie – Blighty's oldest tech wholesaler – today reported an operating loss of £1.15m for the year to 30 June, compared to a profit of £97,000 in the previous 12 …
Did we buy the ACT Sirus1 from them? We were selling that before the inferior IBM PC hit these shores. I can't remember what we bought off them in my Company founded 1980. I left late 1982, but we certainly did use Northamber.
I Suppose a UK PC supplier can only be such since 1981, whatever they sold earlier.
A business sadly on its way out and with no escape mechanism or alternative path.. It's cash over the years should have been used more efficiently and not been used to prop up declining sales and profit. Another couple of years of similar decline and its fixed assets will be higher than its current. Was a terrific cash generator in its heyday and should have used it invest in growth.
Doesn't help how the company is run/dictated by Phillips. I 'served time' there which ended early this year and it is awful they are more concerned with the staff reaching 4 hours talk time on the phones than they are with actually selling anything.
Here's a tip David rather than worrying about who has or in most cases hasn't hit their four hours why not go out and get some decent vendors on board and give what's left of your staff something to actually speak about on the phone rather than having to waffle on about anything they can just to make up the minutes on the phone?