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News Release from: Arrow Electronics (UK)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 March 2006
Fjord Media prefers Arrow
Arrow has benn named as a preferred supplier partner for electronic products and associated supply chain and logistics support to the Norway-based startup Fjord Media.
Fjord Media and Arrow have formed a strategic relationship under which Arrow is one of the preferred supplier partners for electronic products and associated supply chain and logistics support to the Norwegian startup Founded in January 2005, Fjord Media has developed free4, the world's first multipurpose system to address all the routing, optical transport and processing requirements for the broadcast, multimedia and telecomms industries
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Arrow has supported this development from concept, through prototyping and final implementation and, now, into volume manufacture.
In addition to supplying a broad range of semiconductor, passive and connector devices, Arrow has also provided Fjord Media with comprehensive supply chain support in terms of pricing, logistics and delivery and inventory management.
Arrow FAEs have also played a key role in supporting Fjord Media's engineering team in the identification and selection of components optimised for the free4 application.
Discussing the relationship with Arrow, Fjord Media Board Chairman Wiggo Evensen comments: "As a startup company developing next-generation products Fjord Media needed a partner that could combine a broad product range with high levels of specialist local support".
"The strategic relationship with Arrow reflects their ability to bring together product, engineering support and supply chain services that are closely tailored to our specific requirements".
Helge Olsen, the Managing Director of Arrow Norway, adds: "Arrow is unique in being able to deliver a strong regional focus that is backed up by all of the benefits of dealing with a global distributor".
"As a result, we can offer a full range of services to start up companies such as Fjord Media, while providing the global capabilities that will be important to supporting their global growth in the months and years to come".
Fjord Media's free4 is a multipurpose frame and control system that is designed to reduce inventory and minimise rack space by providing all routing, optical transport and processing needs.
The first free4 products are scheduled to leave the Fjord Media production facility in Sandefjord, Norway, in March 2006.
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