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The Mayflex brand name was introduced in 1985 and became the name of the company shortly afterwards Mayflex the distributor of Converged IP Solutions, is celebrating a significant milestone this year, its 100th anniversary. The company was founded on 17th March 1917 as Mayall & Co as a distributor of Swan Kettles by John William Mayall and stayed in the family for three generations. Mayflex history The Mayflex brand name was introduced in 1985 and became the name of the company shortly afterwards. Around this time the company entered the communication cables market launching a range of coax, voice and RS232 cables. This new venture rapidly gathered momentum and led to the ongoing development of network cabling in the form of copper twisted pair and fibre optic cables as they grew in popularity. In January 1997, Mayflex introduced the Excel brand, a move which in just 20 years has revolutionised the structured cabling and rack market, setting new standards in product choice, performance, support and availability, underpinned by a ‘fair price’ strategy. Since its launch, Excel has grown to become an award-winning brand sold in over 70 countries and holds the number 1 position in the UK, based on the volume sold. Over the years Mayflex has forged many successful relationships with some of the industry’s most prolific vendors across networking, infrastructure and the security market and has been recognised with numerous awards for high service levels and performance. Sonepar acquisition In April 2015 Mayflex was acquired by Sonepar, an independent family-owned company with global market leadership in B-to-B distribution of electrical products and related services. Sonepar has €20.2 billion of revenue and is represented by 245 entities operating in 44 countries on five continents and provides Mayflex and its partners unrivalled long term stability, consistency and sustainability. "We continue to expand our Converged IP Solution, adding new vendors together with new products to the Excel range" Andrew Percival, Managing Director at Mayflex comments, “This important and exciting anniversary marks the longevity of our business and demonstrates our adaptability as market conditions and technology have evolved. Mayflex now employs 300 plus associates, from staff that have been in the business for 15, 20 even 30 years, along with newer recruits, bringing a great dynamic to the business. We are active across EMEA and will extend our reach further in the coming months. A huge thank you goes out to the teams across the business that strive day in day out to provide the best service possible to our customers.” Andrew continued, “Our business continues to develop, our key financial measures are improving, customer numbers are growing and we are expanding our geographical reach and entering new vertical and technology markets. We continue to expand our Converged IP Solution, adding new vendors together with new products to the Excel range.” Developing partner business Andrew continued, “Of course we could not have reached this milestone without the support of our loyal customer base, many of whom have worked with us for 20 plus years. As we’ve evolved our converged and cabling product offering, we hope that we’ve also helped our partners to develop their businesses too. I’m pleased to say that many of our customers have become great friends, we value these relationships far more than a simple thank you can express, we are extremely grateful for the support, loyalty and ongoing business given to us. We will continue to work hard to earn this in the future.” Andrew concluded, “Looking ahead we will maintain our investment in people, systems and technology. We have lots of ideas, growth and improvement opportunities. Times have certainly changed through our 100 years of trading, but there is one constant within Mayflex, ambition, this is alive and kicking within our business and will underpin our development over the years to come – we have enjoyed the past, but are excited about the future” There will be both staff and customer events taking place at intervals throughout 2017 celebrating Mayflex’s 100 years, look out for #Mayflex100years in social media and in the industry press.

Excel's Fantasy Football game allows people to pick their own ‘dream team’ made up of World Cup players Excel Networking Solutions, the copper and optical cabling infrastructure provider, has launched a fantasy football game to commemorate the forthcoming World Cup that takes place in Brazil in June 2014. Excel is inviting customers and people in the industry to sign up to the game which allows them to pick their own ‘dream team’ made up of any of the players taking part in the World Cup. Points are awarded based on actual results of the matches and the league table is updated after every match played. The Excel World Cup Fantasy Football game is free to take part and participants have the chance to win a star prize of £1000 worth of Sonos Sound System equipment and four weekly prizes of an ASUS Nexus 7” Tablet so even people late to the game will still have a chance to win a great prize. Tracey Calcutt, Marketing Manager commented ‘Fantasy football is great fun and provides another reason to keep your interest in the World Cup, should your home nation be knocked out. With the use of the mini-leagues, participants can challenge their colleagues, customers and friends to compete against each other as well as see how they fair in the main league.’ Calcutt continued ‘For those people that aren’t football experts the game provides a lucky dip option which automatically picks your initial team. Players can set up a team now and make as many changes as they want until team submission deadline of 20:00 BST on Thursday 12th June 2014, without using any of their transfers. Any transfers made after this time will be taken from their transfer allocation for that period. Calcutt concluded ‘The game is also mobile friendly so players can check their position and make transfers at any time to suit.’ The Excel World Cup Fantasy Football game is now live. The World Cup takes place between 12th June and 13th July 2014.

Mayflex shortlisted for award at the Network Computing Awards taking place on 14th March 2013 Mayflex the Converged IP Solutions distributor, has once again been shortlisted in the category of ‘Distributor of the Year’ at the forthcoming Network Computing Awards which take place on Thursday 14th March 2013 at a ceremony in London. The Network Computing awards are held annually and have been running for 7 years and are particularly meaningful as they are voted for by the readers of Network Computing magazine and people within the industry. They were originally set up to recognise the companies, products and services in the industry that have most impressed the readers. Speaking about the Mayflex nomination Mark Simmons, Mayflex Sales Director said ‘We are delighted to be shortlisted again, last year we finished as the runner up but we would obviously be keen to win it this time round.  This year we’ve concentrated on our Business and Service essentials to make sure that Mayflex is the distributor of choice and with our focus on ‘Converged IP Solutions’ we are helping our customer base to expand their knowledge, product and service offerings. The Excel networking solution has also been shortlisted in the ‘Cabling Supplier of the Year’ category, which it has won for the last two years running. Commenting on Excel Mark said ‘We would love to make this a hat trick and win the award for a third year.  The Excel range continues to grow from strength to strength, with new products added to the range on a regular basis, the launch of the second Excel Encyclopaedia in September last year and we’ve had a number of high profile project wins in the last 12 months which only prove the quality and technical capability of the brand, which is now sold in over 62 countries.