TDK honors best distributors

TDK recognized its best distribution partners in Europe for the 10th time with the European Distribution Award 2023. The gold award in the International Distributor category went to Avnet Abacus. In the e-Catalogue Distributor category, Mouser Electronics was honored. Best Local Distributor is the German company Beckmann Elektronik.

In the International Volume Distributor category, silver went to Arrow and bronze to TTI. In the e-Catalogue Distributors category, TME Electronic received silver and Digi-Key Electronics bronze. Besides Beckmann Elektronik, the best local distributors were the Polish company Elhurt Spólka with silver and for the first time the French distributor Equipements Scientifiques, which received bronze.

“We look back on a strong sales year in 2022,” says Dietmar Jaeger, head of TDK's Global Distributor Division. “With about 50 percent of our distributor partner evaluation related to business development and operational success, this year's results have been very good.” According to Jaeger, the main sales drivers were business with products for e-mobility and charging infrastructure in the automotive sector and with components for regenerative energy production in the industrial electronics sector.

Michael Beckmann, General Manager Beckmann Elektronik, expresses his gratitude for the recognition: “The combination of technologically sophisticated TDK products and our performance as a specialist distributor in design-in support has proven to be extremely successful over decades. Therefore, this year's gold award fills us with enormous pride and inspires us to continue providing customers with service at the very highest level.”
 

From left: Peter Miller (TDK), Tomasz Gredka (TME Electronic Components), Ireneusz Pesta (Elhurt Spółka), Peter Arch (TDK), Philippe Guez (Equipements Scientifiques), Oliver Huettner (TDK), Joerg Frodl (TTI Europe), Claudia Daimer (Mouser Electronics Europe), Josef Vissing (TDK), Thomas Schiefer (Digi-Key Electronics), Elisabetta Bianchi (Arrow Europe), Michael Beckmann (Beckmann Elektronik), Adam Losonczy (Avnet Abacus) and Dietmar Jaeger (TDK).