boatman Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 The American Fortune500 company Avnet Inc has completed the takeover of Farnell. Let's hope it doesn't affect the supply chain too much as a lot of Farnell stock is currently held in the US with premium charges for UK delivery. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbuckley Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 We had Farnell in New Zealand, and they have been Element14 for years, and are integrated with Newark in the USA; is this Farnell in the UK different to this lot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjb304 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Farnell is part of element14 in the UK too. I have lost count of the number of orders I've place to them, and it's rare I have to resort to the US stock most of my orders are supplied from a combination of the UK and EU warehouses. There have been times when I've been known to buy their entire EU stock (and most of the US stock on one occasion) but it doesn't happen too often. I'll be watching to see what happens, hopefully it doesn't change things for the worse. Thanks for the heads up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrV Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Wonder if it will affect the prices. I use RS and Farnell regularly and interchangeably. A year or two ago RS was almost always more expensive but that has reversed now and I use RS far more as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mixermend Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 And of course Farnell also owns CPC....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 From reading the blurb it looks like Avnet realised their product range was not getting designed into new products because it is so hard to get sample devices out of them when you're designing something. (I know, I have tried.) Whereas you can just go on Farnell's website and have it on your desk tomorrow. So I guess they will be looking to use Farnell's distribution network to allow design engineers better access to their product range. This might mean that manufacturers which Avnet don't distribute (there are not many) get bumped in favour of ones they do - for example what will happen to Farnell's generic "Multicomp" brand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart91 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 And of course Farnell also owns CPC....... I wonder if it would make sense for Avnet to sell on CPC as a standalone entity. (How closely is the warehousing / supply chain intertwined?) It could be an easy way to make back some of their outlay and from Tim's interpretation of their intentions I can't see the CPC offering being a desperately good match for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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