Api computer trade
| api Computerhandels GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1994 |
| Seat | Baesweiler , Germany |
| management | Achim Heyne |
| Number of employees | 357 (2013) |
| sales | 660 million euros (2012/13) |
| Website | www.api.de |
| As of December 6, 2014 | |
The api Computer Handels GmbH is a trading company based in Baesweiler . The distributor specializes in the wholesale of computer hardware , software and accessories.
Company history
The company was founded in 1994 in Aachen by Achim Heyne, who has managed the company to this day. From 2007 api was certified as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and was thus able to offer specialist dealers additional services related to Microsoft's offerings. In 2008 a partner agreement was signed with Medion and api was granted the distribution rights for the electronics company's navigation devices and notebooks. In the same year api and Synaxon signed a cooperation agreement. In 2009, the portfolio was expanded to include a distribution agreement with the Korean monitor manufacturer Hyundai IT Corporation and with the network manufacturer Trendnet . In 2010, ZyXEL products were added and api became a trust partner of Sennheiser . In the following years, further distribution contracts were concluded with companies such as Synology , Klarmobil , Buffalo Technology and Creative Technology . Since 2013 api has been selling the complete portfolios of Fujitsu and Tandberg Data and took over the insolvent company COS Distribution AG . As of October 2014, as an Authorized Microsoft Distributor , api received the sales rights for its products in OEM and FPP versions (FPP = Full Package Product, product in retail sales packaging).
Branches
The IT company has branches in Braunschweig , Linden , Marl , Munich , Neuwied , Nuremberg , Paderborn and others in Austria , the Netherlands , Sweden and France .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual financial statements as of April 30, 2014 in the Federal Gazette
- ↑ Wolfgang Kühn: COS rescued - Api takes over the distributor , on heise-online from June 7, 2013, accessed on August 27, 2015