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Anglia honours Panasonic with Supplier of the Year award

Anglia Components announces Panasonic as the recipient of its Supplier of the Year Award for 2025. This accolade recognises Panasonic’s contribution to Anglia’s business through product innovation, commercial support, and customer engagement. Panasonic has consistently demonstrated excellence across all areas of collaboration – from engineering and logistics to marketing and account management. Its proactive approach

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China eases automotive chip export ban

China is set to ease restrictions on the export of automotive computer chips that are vital to global car production, following a new trade and economic agreement reached with the United States. The White House confirms the development after President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping met in South Korea this week. According to the

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U.S. Customs to use AI to detect illicit transshipment

Exiger, a company specialising in AI-driven supply chain management, has secured a multi-million-dollar contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to enhance the detection of illicit transshipment across global supply chains. Illicit transshipment – the manipulation of supply chains to conceal a product’s actual country of origin – is often used to circumvent tariffs,

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Waldom Electronics EMEA joins ecsn

Waldom Electronics EMEA has become a member of the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn), reinforcing its commitment to collaboration and best practices across the authorised distribution channel. As part of this strengthened partnership, Dave Beck, Strategic Partnership Director for EMEA at Waldom Electronics, has been appointed to the Leadership Group steering committee of ecsn. Before

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Top news stories in October

Procurement Pro takes a look at the top news stories from October 2025. China targets Qualcomm and US Ships According to a Bloomberg report, China has introduced new port fees on US‑owned and US‑built vessels, alongside an antitrust investigation into Qualcomm, amid escalating tensions ahead of a planned meeting between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.

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Solsta announces exclusive partnership with Wain Electrical

Solsta has announced an exclusive distribution partnership with Wain Electrical, a manufacturer of standard and custom industrial connector solutions. The exclusive deal covers the UK and Ireland and will enable Solsta to fulfil a more complete range of customer connectivity needs. Wain industrial connectors are designed to meet the needs of applications ranging from PCB

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DigiKey’s CEO receives leadership award

DigiKey is proud to announce that Dave Doherty, CEO for DigiKey, has received the inaugural Spirit of Excellence Leadership Award from industry organisation WE United. The award recognises Doherty’s long-standing commitment to developing talent across not only DigiKey but the electronics industry as a whole. “It was an absolute pleasure and honour to present the

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Arrow Electronics’ revenues accelerate 13% in Q3

Arrow Electronics revenues grew 13% year over year to $7.71 billion in Q3. Across the first nine months of its financial year revenues grew 8% to $22.1 billion. Global component sales advanced 12% year on year to $5.55 billion and 3% in the financial year so far to $15.61 billion. Americas components third-quarter sales increased

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EMASS and Arrow Electronics announce collaboration

EMASS, a Nanoveu subsidiary with next-generation semiconductor technology; and Arrow Electronics have announced a collaboration to propel the deployment of EMASS’ ECS-DoT SoC, designed for ultra-low-power Edge AI solutions across drones, wearables, Industrial IoT, and smart sensing devices. The collaboration combines Arrow’s global engineering reach, design-for-manufacture expertise, distribution, and supply-chain services with EMASS’s milliwatt-class, on-device

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Farnell named ‘High Service Distributor’ by Panasonic

Farnell has announced that it has been named by Panasonic Industry Europe as the ‘High Service Distributor of the Year 2025’. The award was presented at the Panasonic Distribution Conference 2025 in Seefeld, Austria, and is given in recognition of Farnell’s commitment to delivering innovation, service excellence, and customer success across EMEA and beyond. “On

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