EET Europarts continues its expansion with acquisition of Dutch distributor The PoS Company

Issued by EET Europarts

Johannesburg, 05 Oct 2016

The PoS Company has a very strong market position within POS solutions, serving the Benelux area with high-end products from i.a. Zebra, Star Micronics, EBN System, Datalogic, Honeywell and many more.

"Acquisitions are an important part of our overall growth strategy, and a contributing factor to our successful growth of the POS & Auto ID business in recent years," says CEO at EET Group, John Thomas.

"Our ambition is to become one of the leading POS & Auto ID distributors in the European market before 2020, and this acquisition is definitely one more important step in that direction. With the acquisition of The PoS Company, we add new competences and well-known brands to our POS & Auto ID portfolio, and at the same time, we bring even more highly skilled employees into our Benelux organisation."

As part of the acquisition, EET Europarts will take over a dedicated team of experienced and highly skilled employees from The PoS Company.

Managing director at The PoS Company, Bob Debie, is very pleased with the acquisition. "EET Europarts has been growing its POS & Auto ID business strongly and very efficiently in recent years, and I look forward to become part of such a successful company. Also, I strongly believe that the impact of EET Europarts' unique and effective distribution model, in combination with the products, know-how and competences we bring on from The PoS Company, will help grow the POS & Auto ID business further."

The PoS Company

The PoS Company is a distributor of POS & Auto ID products and solutions in the Benelux. The product portfolio includes products like receipt printers, label printers, bar code scanners, (touch) screens and POS systems.

Furthermore, the solutions covers a number of business verticals including retail, healthcare, logistics and industries.

EET Group

EET Group is Europe's leading distributor within: server, computer and printer parts, storage and network, mobile parts and accessories, home entertainment and lifestyle electronics, surveillance and security, professional AV and digital signage, point of sale and auto ID and logistical services.

EET Group was founded in 1986, and is today represented with 32 sales offices in 27 countries across Europe and Africa, under the commercial name EET Europarts.

EET Group represents a wide range of leading brands, including: HP, Lexmark, IBM, Canon, Epson, Acer, Lenovo, Axis, Synology, Samsung, Ernitec, Sony, Milestone, Sling Media, B&O PLAY, MicroBattery, MicroMemory, MicroLamp, MicroStorage, MicroConnect, MicroScreen, Hitachi, Western Digital, eSTUFF, Clint, Podspeakers, Sandberg, Garmin, Kensington, Loewe and many more.

EET Group is situated in Birkerod just north of Copenhagen and is the parent company of all EET Europarts sales entities. As such, EET Group is the backbone of the organisation and provides all back-office functions within: corporate management, finance, marketing, IT, Web and ERP development, logistics, product management and procurement.

The group employs more than 500 employees, serves more than 44 000 dealers and handles more than 1 000 000 deliveries per year.

EET Europarts continues its expansion with acquisition of Dutch distributor The PoS Company

Four acquisitions of POS distributors within the past 11 months underlines EET Europarts' strategic focus on the strengthening of the POS & Auto ID business.