One of the leading IT product wholesalers in the Eastern Europe and one of the largest companies in Latvia, ELKO Grupa, has concluded a cooperation agreement with ASUS – more than 20 years worldwide known IT vendor. This agreement determines the wholesale of ASUS notebooks, netbooks, Tablet PC in the Baltic States, starting from July.
“Being one the leading players on IT markets in mobile PC area in many countries in the world like China, France, Italy, Russia, Ukraine and Poland, we also see a great potential of growth in Baltic States. ASUS is ready to offer full product range of mobile devices and fulfill the growing demand of the customers who’d like to be mobile nowadays, successful in their business duties and private life enjoying entertainment on the go. We’re pleased to get ELKO as our official distributor in Baltic States from now. We believe that with ELKO Grupa’s addition to our distribution team, we will widen our channel coverage, deepen our in house share in the existing partners and hence keep the leading market position of Asus in Baltic States“, tells Angela Hsu, ASUS SYS regional head.
Guntis Tomsons, Baltic Regional Director of ELKO Grupa AS, commented signed cooperation agreement saying: “ASUS offers feasible and contemporary computers and their equipment of an attractive price with vendor-specific technical solutions that is fundamentally devised for each consumer. One of the first ASUS products that will become available to the Baltic States customers is the current fashion product – the innovative Tablet PC EEPad Transformer. It combines the latest Tablet PC design concept with the netbooks specific technical parameters. EEPad Transformer Tablet PC is especially suitable for users who are in a need of both multimedia and productive mobile functionality. And also the rest ASUS product assortment offered by ELKO is significant and will give clients in the Baltic States wide possibilities to choose in terms of product prices and technical specifications. We’re pleased to get so professional and strong vendor as our new partner ASUS and we are looking forward to a successful cooperation“.
About ASUS
ASUS – the top 3 notebook vendor and the winner of several international awards – is one of the leading IT enterprises in the world. ASUS designs and manufactures products which fully satisfy the needs of our digital era both at home and at the office: notebooks, netbooks, tablet devices, servers, multimedia and wireless solutions, networking devices, and mobile phones. Driven by innovation and committed to quality, ASUS won 3 398 awards in 2010, and is widely credited with revolutionizing the PC industry with the subnotebook/netbook computer line - Eee PC™. With a global staff of more than 10 000 and a world-class R&D (Research and Development) team of 3 000 engineers, the company's revenue for 2010 was around US$10.1 billion.
Further information: http://www.asus.com
About ELKO Group
ELKO Group was founded in 1993 and is one of the largest companies in Latvia. The main course of action is wholesale of computer and electronic products in the Baltic States, Central and Eastern Europe, and CIS member states. Company represents more than 70 producers and sells their goods to more than 5400 retailers, local computer producers and system integrators. ELKO Group offers more than 9000 product titles from the most famous suppliers - Acer, Intel, Microsoft, Seagate, Samsung, Sony, Western Digital and others. At the moment more than 340 people are employed in the company. ELKO Group belongs to several legal entities and investment fund Amber Trust and East Capital Asset Management related investment funds.
Further information: www.elkogroup.com
