Specialism: Datacentre & networking, cybersecurity, data & information management, digital workplace, gaming, consumer electronics
Vendors include: Acronis, Barracuda, Commvault, ESET, Red Hat, Samsung, Solarwinds
UK revenue: £279.7m (-4%)
UK headcount: 265
With a portfolio spanning everything from datacentre and cybersecurity to gaming and consumer electronics, this Anglo-Irish specialist distributor boasts one of the most varied portfolios in this rundown.
CMS Distribution’s UK subsidiary registered a second consecutive annual revenue fall in calendar 2023, as its top line shrank 4% to £279.7m.
It branded it a “positive year”, however, greeting an advance in its gross margins from 7.2% to 8.3% as “validation” of its value-add approach.
CMS claims to carry more than 60 vendors and serve more than 3,000 resellers.
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