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„Best European Automotive Distributor 2019“
Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH receives the award as „Best European Automotive Distributor 2019“ for its efforts in opening up new markets and design-in activities in line with the Yageo strategy.
„We have already enjoyed a partnership with Yageo for decades, which has enabled both companies to grow steadily. For Rutronik, too, the automotive sector is a market segment with technologically sophisticated products that is also important in terms of corporate strategy. The combination of Yageo‘s innovations with Rutronik‘s capabilities in design-in support and logistics offers our customers solutions from a single source. This recognition confirms our joint strategy to further expand the partnership and win new markets and customers“, says Markus Krieg, Chief Marketing Officer at Rutronik.
Michael Turbanisch, Head of Distribution Sales at Yageo Europe BV, added: „Rutronik has done an outstanding job for our automotive customers in design-in and in creating new sales channels. With their support, we were able to successfully place the new R-chip technologies, such as thin film, metal current sensing and arrays as well as multilayer ceramic capacitors, with our key customers.“
About Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH
Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH is one of the leading distributors in Europe. With over 80 local offices around the globe, the company has a successful international network. The broadline distributor supplies semiconductors, passive and electromechanical components as well as boards, storage, displays & wireless products. The company‘s primary target markets are the automotive, medical, industrial, home appliance, energy and lighting industries.
The ranges RUTRONIK EMBEDDED, RUTRONIK SMART, RUTRONIK POWER and RUTRONIK AUTOMOTIVE provide customers with specific products and services in groups tailored to the respective applications. Expert technical support for product development and design-in, individual logistics and supply chain management solutions as well as comprehensive services complete its scope of performance.
The company, founded by Helmut Rudel in 1973 in Ispringen, Germany, now has over 80 subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Rutronik employs more than 1,900 staff worldwide and achieved Group sales of 1,08 billion euros in the fiscal year 2019.