In addition to a source for my own projects, I wanted to establish a contact with some German catalogue retailers so that we can approach them about stocking our components sets, which are selling well in the UK.
We also do a lot of China sourcing and so smaller German suppliers like Conrad and Schukat are ideal, because they tend not to source many of their electronic components direct from China yet (there is often a long chain of middlemen).
In the UK, suppliers like Digikey, RS and Farnell already have deep Chinese supply chains, where as people like Maplin, Rapid and Hills (which are still quite big) don't - therefore they make perfect customers for us!
If you can think of any more, please let me know...
Thanks,
Tom.
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