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RHS-Tornado aims for the top spot on domestic IT&C market

18.03.2010, 19:41 27

RHS-Tornado, one of the biggest IT&C product distributorsdomestically, expects turnover to rise by 20% in the first quarterof this year compared with a year ago. "We're on an upward trend,we expect to end Q1 with a 20% increase from the similar period oflast year. This year we want to be the top distributor of IT&Cproducts on the Romanian market, a target also supported by theoperational integration with Tornado Sistems, completed in 2009,"Dragos Popescu, general manager of RHS-Tornado, told ZF. Overallthis year, the company is not expecting significant changes asregards turnover, which totalled 110m euros in 2009. RHS Companyand Tornado Sistems, among the five biggest distributors of ITequipment, with cumulated turnover worth 136m euros in 2008, mergedamid plummeting sales and lending last year. The merger was alsoset to include Scop Computers (the biggest IT distributor in termsof turnover last year), but talks failed. Of the two companies,Tornado Sistems has been the hardest hit by the crisis, withturnover falling to 63m euros in 208 from 93 million a yearbefore.

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