Anglia has announced that it has been honoured with a special award by semiconductor manufacturer Diodes Inc., in recognition of the rapid sales growth it has achieved for the Diodes product range. The Outstanding Achievement Award acknowledges the exceptional level of new business that Anglia has generated for Diodes since taking on their UK and Ireland franchise in early 2006.

Anglia has announced the launch of Anglia Lighting, a division dedicated to providing a broad range of products, backed up by highly competent technical support, to designers, manufacturers, contractors and installers of LED lighting systems. Anglia has built up a strong presence in optoelectronics, with a portfolio that includes LEDs from Cree and Avago Technologies; drive circuitry from Zetex and Power Integrations; microcontrollers from ST and...

Anglia has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with German capacitor manufacturer WIMA, whose capacitors are particularly suited to applications in the power supply, lighting, automotive and telecommunications industries.

Anglia has announced that it has signed a UK and Ireland distribution agreement with analogue semiconductor manufacturer Zetex.

Anglia has introduced a set of five complete reference designs for AC/DC switched mode power supplies based on the Power Integrations range of ICs. The Anglia Design Accelerator Kits (ADAK) have been designed by Anglia Designs to provide all the essential materials necessary to demonstrate the advanced features of the power chips, and to offer a reference design that can either be used to produce a working power supply or be customised to meet in...

Anglia has announced the appointment of Graham Bridger as its new Divisional Marketing Manager for its passive, electromechanical and connector (PEMCO) components. Graham has over 20 years experience in the electronic components industry, and prior to joining Anglia was European Distribution Manager for Rohm Electronics where he had worked since 1996.

Anglia has announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement to both distribute and provide design support to the Mitsubishi range of high frequency semiconductors in the UK and Ireland. The product range addressed by the far-reaching deal encompasses silicon RF transistors, GaAs field-effect transistors (FETs), high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs), and RF modules. The devices and modules are targ...

Anglia has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Telegesis, which produces ZigBee modules based around both Ember and STMicroelectronics chips. The Telegesis modules are designed to meet the needs of engineers who need the functionality of ZigBee but lack the resources or expertise to develop chip level solutions, and of those requiring a fast track to market.

Anglia has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Telegesis, which produces ZigBee modules based around both Ember and STMicroelectronics chips. The Telegesis modules are designed to meet the needs of engineers who need the functionality of ZigBee but lack the resources or expertise to develop chip level solutions, and of those requiring a fast track to market.

Anglia has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Ember, a manufacturer of systems-on-chip, processors, co-processors and software stacks for ZigBee wireless networking applications. Ember's ZigBee technology is ideally suited for applications that require scalable wireless networks with low-power mesh implementation, such as Building and Home Automation, metering and energy management.

Anglia Designs, part of Anglia Components, has opened a £500,000, 2,500 square feet (232 square metres) technology centre in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Sir Robin Saxby, President of the IET and Emeritus Chairman of ARM, officially opened the facility on Friday 8th, June. It has a fully equipped laboratory, a wet room that includes a PCB etching, drilling and environmental chamber, and a custom-built EMC test chamber designed to help Anglia custo...

Anglia has a signed a distribution agreement with Cree to sell and support Cree XLamp power LEDs in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Cree XLamp LEDs are the highest performance LEDs in the industry today. The product line includes both the award winning XLamp XR-E LED, which is the first commercially available power LED that is as efficient as fluorescent sources, and the newly released XLamp XR-C LED, which provides high performance at a lower c...

Anglia, the UK’s largest privately-owned electronic component distributor, grew sales by 17.5% in 2006, with annual sales through the $65 million mark , in stark contrast with the overall performance of UK distribution that, according to the Association of Franchised Distributors of Electronic Components (AFDEC) in its recently released figures, achieved only 5.3% year-on-year expansion in 2006.

Anglia has signed a franchise agreement to distribute GPS frequency sources with Rakon of New Zealand. Rakon is a leader in temperature controlled crystal oscillators (TCXOs) for GPS systems with greater than 50% market share. GPS applications demand TCXOs with exceptionally high levels of frequency stability and resistance to shock and vibration, particularly as many systems are used in mobile and portable environments where wide temperature ran...

Anglia has set up a dedicated displays division to provide enhanced technical support to its customers, particularly with respect to the integration of display systems. Many of today’s colour displays need external controllers, inverters and drivers, in addition to requiring specialist connectors and cables. Anglia’s displays division, headed by Jackie Kingston, aims to help customers by recommending and supplying suitable combinations of dev...

Anglia has announced that it has been appointed by Avago Technologies as UK and Ireland distributor for its optoelectronic components. Steffi Kircher, Avago’s sales director for distribution in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said, “Anglia’s solid relationships in Northern Europe enable us to reach a large base of mid-tier OEMs and EMS companies. This customer base penetrates the local mid-tier sector very well and will give us access ...

Anglia has added a memory and microcontrollers franchise from Ramtron to broaden its offering into embedded design applications. Ramtron designs and manufactures specialised memories and microcontrollers for metering, computing, automotive, consumer, industrial, scientific and medical applications. The company's ferroelctric RAM (FRAM) products combine the non-volatile data storage capability of ROM with the benefits of RAM, which include a high ...

Anglia has been nominated as “Outstanding Regional European Distributor” by circuit protection specialist, Raychem, a division of Tyco Electronics. The award, for Northern Europe, was won in the face of competition from four other distributors, including the world’s largest. Raychem judges the performance of its distributors on sales growth, number of design registrations, conversion of design registrations, sales of new products, and parti...

As part of its continuing expansion into the embedded applications market, Anglia has won a franchise to distribute a range of socket modems from Multitech. Multitech employs a universal socket into which conventional, GSM wireless or Ethernet modems can be connected without changes to surrounding hardware.

In its first move into the Industrial Security Medical (ISM) wireless market, Anglia has singed a franchise agreement with Jennic to distribute their innovative single chip JN5121 2.4 GHz RF microcontroller that is compliant with IEEE802.15.4 and ZigBee standards. The device is targeted at integrated solutions for economical sensor networks. Anglia now offers chips, evaluation kits, modules, network stacks and development tools. The distributor w...