Epson Toyocom’s timing is perfect for Anglia

Pictured from left to right are: Joel Munday (Divisional Marketing Manager) Anglia, Christian Sammut (Sales Account Manager) Epson Toyocom, Stefan Hartmann (Department Manager) Epson Toyocom, Sarah Porter ( Product Marketing Manager) Anglia

Wisbech, UK, 14 October 2009 – Anglia Components, the UK’s leading independent component distributor, today announced a franchise agreement with Epson Toyocom, a world leader in crystal timing devices, giving it the remit to take a broad based range of timing, sensing, and optical devices to its customers in the UK market.

According to Stefan Hartmann, Department Manager QD of Epson Europe Electronics GmbH (Epson Toyocom’s sales affiliate in Europe), “As market leader, we at Epson Toyocom always strive to give the best possible support to customers. One major factor to ensure this is to have a strong and tight distribution network. During our continuous market evaluation process we have found that the UK market presents us with a rich opportunity from a large number of innovative small and medium sized companies undertaking design work. We identified Anglia as an ideal expansion of our distribution network, as it has excellent contacts with this market, taking us into many customers where we currently don’t have representation. In addition, they have a very strong engineering team, able to work alongside customers to help them make the most of the solutions that we offer. Finally, they have a base of highly complementary products and technologies with which our devices can form a package. These include semiconductor ranges and wireless communications technologies.”

Steve Rawlins, CEO of Anglia added, “We are delighted to have formed a relationship with one of world’s leading manufacturers of timing components. Epson Toyocom is the quartz crystal vendor of choice for many of the top OEMs, and we are now in a position to take these products and solutions to the entire base of industrial, medical and consumer electronics customers in the UK. This will include new and innovative products as they bring them to market.”

Joel Munday, Anglia Components Divisional Marketing Manager, added, “Timing components are becoming increasingly critical to our customers, in particular as wireless communications becomes more prevalent. Standard microprocessor based designs suffer a degradation in performance if substandard timing components are used, but usually still work. Wireless communications products won’t work at all if the timing doesn’t meet the specification.”

About Epson Toyocom
Epson Toyocom Corporation is the global leader in crystal devices, which serve as the heart and pulse for a wide range of electronic products for consumers and industry. Utilizing its innovative hybrid quartz microfabrication technology, QMEMS, Epson Toyocom offers technological expertise in timing, sensing, and optical devices, and maintains its leadership position by providing customer-specific combinations and solutions. http://www.epsontoyocom.co.jp/english/

About Anglia
Anglia is the UK’s leading independent authorised distributor of semiconductors, optoelectronics, interconnect, and passive and electromechanical components. The company is a member of SC21 and holds AS9120 and ISO9001 approvals. Anglia’s exceptional technical support spans a fast sampling service, telephone advice from product specialists, on-site visits from field applications engineers and, ultimately, electronics design. An in-house team of designers adds expert resources to customers' design teams, helps reduce final product costs and accelerates development times. Anglia stocks over 700 million components from 500,000 product lines in the UK, and streamlines its customer’s logistics and reduces costs through KAN-BAN, EDI, and customer-dedicated inventory.

Michelene Hircock at Anglia, Sandall Road, Wisbech, PE13 2PS, UK.
Phone: +44 (0)1945 47 47 47; Web: www.anglia.com; Email: mh@anglia.com