RS Components receives Distributor of the Year award from BulginRS gains recognition from leading manufacturer of environmentally-sealed connectors and components for performance in 2016/17 

Johannesburg, South Africa, 16 August, 2017 - RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has been selected by Bulgin as ‘Distributor of the Year’ for 2016/17 – a result of the increasingly close working relationship that has been developed between the two companies over the past few years. Bulgin designs, engineers and manufactures world-class sealed circular connectors and electronics components.

The company is also well known for its popular Buccaneer range of circular connectors, which provide reliable, robust connections for power, signal and data in harsh environments. Delivering strong support for new Bulgin product launches over the past four years, RS has grown its global sales team and built up stock to meet growing customer demand, which has resulted in RS gaining a distribution market share of almost 30 per cent in the EMEA region for Bulgin components. 

“This award is recognition of the significant investment on many fronts made by RS to grow sales of Bulgin’s robust and reliable interconnection technologies,” said Eric Smith, Head of Product Management IP&E at RS. “We have been working together to improve communications and stock profiling to ensure that RS has the right connector products available at the right time.” 

Gary Davies, Distribution Sales Manager at Bulgin, said: “RS has worked in close partnership with us, continually growing sales of our products and technologies and creating even greater awareness of the Bulgin brand, as well as showcasing our new product launches worldwide.” 

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About RS Components 

RS Components is the market leader in the high service level distribution of electrical, electronic, mechanical, tools and industrial products. Operating in 26 countries whilst serving a further 100 through third-party distributors, RS serves every sector of industry in the procurement of their products relating to maintenance, repair, operations, low volume production, research and development.   

With over 500 000 products across 2500 leading brands, the company is committed to ensuring that their 1,5 million customers have fast access to a broad, as well as deep range, of products and technologies, all under one roof. RS’s customers, whether ordering single or multiple items, experience a quick, easy, secure, painless and cost effective process. 

The RS catalogue, available at za.rs-online.com, offers full colour pictures with extensive clear product specifications.  Free access to thousands of datasheets ensures the correct product choice.  Order placement is easily facilitated through za.rs-online.com, the call centre, e-mail, fax and trade counter. 

Locally held stock is delivered to customers within 24 hours, and products held internationally, within four to six working days.    

It is proven that departments traditionally spend 80% of their time sourcing products that account for only 20% of their total procurement spend. RS is focussed on reducing the customers “total cost of product ownership” by reducing the need to make multiple calls to various companies to source products, reducing supplier related administration and allowing for the amalgamation as well as consolidation of supplier bases. 

Through this process, procurement efficiency is improved and time is freed up to concentrate on the more important business decisions.  For more information, please visit the website at za.rs-online.com          

Press OfficeLe-andra OlivierPR and Communications SpecialistRS Components South AfricaLe-andra.Olivier@rs-components.com+27 11 691 9345 

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