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Customers invited to share how RS Components has made their jobs easier and the best story wins a trip to catch the FA Cup Final 2013 in London
BEIJING, Nov. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RS Components, the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, celebrates 75 years in business with the launch of "Share Your Story" competition in Asia Pacific.
The competition aims to engage and involve customers in the celebrations by inviting them to share stories about how RS Components has helped them to do their jobs better or faster.
Through a series of online and print advertisements, customers will be invited to submit their stories via the "Share Your Story" competition website. The best story will win a trip for two to watch the FA Cup 2013 final at Wembley Stadium and a private tour of the RS Components global logistics centre in Nuneaton, UK. The closing date for story submission is 23.59 hours, 1 March 2013 (Singapore).
The competition is open to all RS Components customers who reside in the Asia Pacific region including Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
"75 years is a remarkable milestone and through our commitment to service excellence, we have partnered and helped millions of customers accomplish amazing things. They are the electronic design engineers, maintenance engineers and procurement specialists that depend on us to provide critical parts and products whenever and wherever they are needed," said LA Choong, Head of Marketing, Asia Pacific, RS Components.
He continued: "Over the years, customers have shared with us how we have made a key difference to their critical projects and the role we play in helping them to design faster and better. Through the 'Share Your Story' competition, we hope to encourage more customers to tell us their stories. We are very excited and can't wait to read and share the stories with all our customers and employees."
Since 1937, RS Components has grown into a successful multinational organisation and transformed itself from a UK company into a global business while helping engineers. The company's achievements are a direct result of its ability to embrace change, adapting to the needs of the market and its customers.
It has significantly upgraded its online presence by embedding a culture of innovation and, most importantly, an unwavering customer focus in global marketing campaigns, new product introductions and eCommerce based offerings. This has successfully positioned eCommerce as a major driver of growth for the business. Recently, RS Components transformed its customers' online experience with the introduction of eProcurement systems, a Live Chat service in 12 markets, electronics design tools and one of the most advanced transactional websites in the B2B distribution sector.
The websites also act as the entry point for developing long-term multi-channel relationship with customers. Recognising the importance of the human touch, RS Components has continued to invest in a complete sales network and customer service hotlines worldwide. Customers can also visit 23 trade counters across the world giving them instant access to thousands of products and special offers.
For more information, please visit the RS Components 75th Anniversary and the "Share Your Story" competition websites.
About RS Components
RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc, the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products. With operations in 32 countries, we offer more than 550,000 products through the internet, catalogues and at trade counters to over one million customers, shipping around 44,000 parcels a day. Our products, sourced from 2,500 leading suppliers, include electronics, automation and control, test and measurement, electrical and mechanical components.
Electrocomponents is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the last financial year ended 31 March 2012 had revenues of GBP1.27bn.
For more information, please visit the websites at http://china.rs-online.com/web/.
Further information is available via these links:
Twitter: @RSElectronics; @alliedelec; @designsparkRS
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Editorial Contact:
RS Components
Tan Soo Chun
Public Relations Manager - Asia Pacific
Email: soochun.tan@rs-components.com
Tel: +65-6391-5745
The Hoffman Agency
Rasheed Abu Bakar
Senior Account Executive
Email: rscomponentsteam@hoffman.com
Tel: +65-6361-0250
