News

EFL's VoIP survey reveals high numbers of resellers offering VoIP solutions - but also that concerns over education and market awareness remain.
Friday 7th December, 2007

The results show that there is considerable uptake of VoIP within the channel with over 65% of companies offering some form of VoIP solution to th...read more

Mary Anthony appointed as Group Recruitment Co-Ordinator
Wednesday 1st August, 2007

Effective immediately the Arcum Group has appointed Mary Anthony to act as the Group Recruitment Co-ordinator.   Raj Gupta Group Chief Exe...read more

Arcum Group acquires Felco (Electronics) Limited
Thursday 14th June, 2007

The Arcum Group, has acquired Felco (Electronics) a value added distributor of connectors, components and cable assemblies, representing worldwide manufactures such as Preci-dip.   The connector and component business has been acquired by Inelco Hunter Limited and the cable assembly business by Hunter Cable Assembly Limited.   Raj Gupta, Group Chief Executive commented “merging these two distribution businesses with their complementary product ranges will provide our customers with more comprehensive and competitive product range, whilst at the same time the addition of the cable assembly business to HCAL adds further depth to our product offering and additional world class manufacturing capability for our customers”.   The Preci-dip product range includes high-precision press-fit technology and spring-loaded connectors. Preci-dip is one of the worlds leading manufactures in screw machined and MIL spec contacts, spring loaded and interconnect components. Preci-dip also provide custom design solutions.   With the acquisition, Inelco Hunter are also able to offer Oupin connectors – recognised as one of the world leaders in design and manufacturing of high quality, high volume connectors; and Suyin range of custom-design connectors for battery, board-to-board, card reader, HDD, PC card and l/O applications.   Inelco Hunter is a specialist distributor of displays, electronic components, thermal printers and systems, backed up by a large technical support team to help design products into application   Hunter Cable Assembly Limited is a specialist subcontractor and distributor for cable assembly, wiring harnesses, cable looms, box builds and sub assembly. 

Arcum Group Accounts 2006
Monday 4th June, 2007

The Arcum Group and its subsidiary company accounts for the year ending 30th September 2006 are now available from Companies House.

Electronic Frontier Ltd sign Distribution Agreement with Patton Electronics
Wednesday 17th May, 2006

Speaking today Conor McCann, Sales and Marketing Director at EFL, said "I am delighted for EFL to be appointed by Patton Electronics as a UK distributor. Patton is a leader in VoIP and network access technology and this partnership is key to EFL's strategy of providing value to our customers for all their VoIP and Data solutions".

Hunter Electronic Components Renamed Hunter Cable Assemblies
Sunday 10th April, 2005

As part of the ongoing restructuring in the Arcum Group Hunter Electronic Components Limited has been renamed Hunter Cable Assemblies to better reflect its activities

Hunter Distribution and Inelco Limited Merge
Friday 1st April, 2005

The Arcum Group is pleased to announce that from the 1st April 2005 the distribution arm of Hunter Electronic Components Ltd will merge with Inelco Limited. Speaking today Steve Seigne (Sales Director of Inelco Hunter Limited) said "Merging these two distribution businesses with their complimentary product offerings will allow us to give a stronger product offering to our customers. And at the same time allow in depth staffing of the back office functions so necessary for the total customer solution.

Arcum Group in top 25 electronics distributors in UK.
Friday 8th October, 2004

Europartners review of UK electronics distribution shows Arcum Group to be in the top 25 distributors in the UK by value.Speaking today Raj Gupta said "Having moved from top 70 to the top 25 is a tribute both to our strategy and to the quality of our staff. The fact that these figure completely excludes our IT related business serves to demonstrate how far we have come and our financial strength."

Hunter acquires Peter Gray
Tuesday 1st June, 2004

For further details contact Jonathan Curry on jpsc@arcum.co.ukHunter Electronic Components Ltd (a subsidiary of the Arcum Group) has aquired the shares of Peter Gray Electronics Ltd and the two businesses have merged at Hunter's Maidenhead site.Speaking today Raj Gupta, Chief Executive of Arcum, and Chairman of Hunter said; I am delighted to welcome Peter Gray's strength in Passives and E-mech to Hunter with its competence in Semis and Magnetics. The combined business will have more sales staff, more customers and more lines available to those customers. This should genuinely be a win - win for ourselves and our customer base.