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Industry Growth Drives New Investment by RS Components in Queensland Market

RS Components
2011-05-04 14:24 1842

Showroom opening coincides with strong local growth for world's largest distributor of electronics and maintenance products

BRISBANE, Australia, May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- RS Components (http://bit.ly/RSAustralia), the world's largest high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has opened an industry-leading concept showroom in Brisbane on the back of strong industry growth in the resources, process manufacturing and transport sectors.

The revamped and renovated showroom with a re-profiled stock line coincides with the biggest year by turnover RS Components has experienced in the Australia and New Zealand region. RS Components anticipates this growth to continue over the coming year with trade expected to double on the back of the Queensland showroom and wider-market demand.

The showroom has one of the largest stock holdings of automation and manufacturing control components in Australia and New Zealand and in its first month of opening generated a 56% increase on the previous month's sales for the region.

Automation and process control components provide customers with solutions for instrumentation, automation and optimisation of industrial processes. They are widely used in various growth industries like mining, oil and gas, process manufacturing, transportation and panel building industries.

"We're proud that our first new concept showroom for the Australian and New Zealand market is in the Queensland region as we have received great customer demand for the range and availability of our automation and process control products in particular," says Jeremy Edward, Country Manager Australia and New Zealand, RS Components.

"The Queensland showroom maintains the RS Components commitment to high availability and product readiness that we have become known for in Australia and NZ over the last 35 years.

"Our products are available on demand, in store and in stock, so our customers save significantly on the traditional downtime experienced between ordering products and waiting for delivery," Mr Edward says.

The Brisbane showroom will be used as the concept store to be rolled out to further locations in Australia and New Zealand over the coming year. RS Components has five staff in Queensland and they expect this number to grow with the expanding interest in process and automation control components in the region.

Queensland contractors were hired to undertake the revamp and renovations, injecting AU$150,000 into the local economy.

RS Components counts the resources industry as a particular catalyst driving growth, with mining companies among RS Component's largest customers. The education sector is also proving a burgeoning sector.

In Australia and New Zealand the company has a base of around 20,000 transactional customers per year with major brands stocked including Schneider Electric, ABB, Siemens, Omron and Phoenix Contact. RS Components has 170 staff and six offices in the Australia and New Zealand region.

ABOUT RS COMPONENTS

RS Components is the world's largest distributor of electronics and maintenance products serving 1.5 million customers worldwide. Through operations in 27 countries and 17 warehouses, the Group distributes 500,000 products ranging from semiconductors and optoelectronics to power tools and protective clothing. The product and service portfolio supports the entire product lifecycle from R&D through pre-production to maintenance and repair, shipping around 40,000 orders on the same day they are received.

RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc. The Group is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the last financial year to 31 March 2010 had revenues of GBP 972.6 million. For more information, please visit the website at http://australia.rs-online.com/web/ or http://newzealand.rs-online.com/web/ .

RS Components Australia

RS Components began life in Australia in 1976 from the home of a "Radiospares" distributor in Perth, Western Australia.

The first warehouse was opened in 1980 in WA and expansion across the country came in 1985 with the opening of a trade counter and warehouse in Sydney, quickly followed by Adelaide and Melbourne in 1986 and Brisbane in 1987.

"Radiospares" was acquired in 1990 by Electrocomponents Group, and RS Components Australia was officially born. RS Components Australia now serves more than 20,000 customers annually.

New Zealand

RS started selling products in New Zealand in 1988 through a distributor.

In 1994 RS decided to have its own presence in New Zealand and the distributor was integrated into the RS organisation. They are based in Penrose, South Auckland and have over 5,000 customers located throughout the country. RS Components service industries ranging from electronics to manufacturing to farming.

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