"Premier Farnell plc is a high-service distributor of technology products and solutions for electronic system design, maintenance and repair in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. As a digital enterprise, we bring together the latest products, services, and development software, all connected to an industry leading online engineering community, element14. Through our community, purchasers and engineers can access peers and experts, a wide range of independent technical information and proprietary tools.
With over 70 years in electronics components distribution, Premier Farnell's unique features include 29 local language transactional websites, the innovative online element14 Community for engineers and The Knode on element14, an intelligent knowledge and search tool - both industry firsts.
Our primary electronics businesses currently trade as Farnell element14 in Europe, Newark element14 in the US, Canada and Mexico and Farnell Newark in Brazil. Since 2010, the Asia Pacific business has traded as element14. Previously, operations in Asia Pacific were branded Premier Electronics, Farnell and Farnell-Newark. Premier Farnell's other brands include CadSoft, CPC, MCM and Akron Brass.
Key Facts
• Operations in 35 different countries
• Supplying over 150 global industries
• Over 2 million customer contacts
• 4,400+ employees
• 500,000 products stocked across our regional warehouses
• Global leader in legislation RoHS, WEEE, REACH"
