Already several years the company ELKO has been awarded as the best distributor in segment of PC assemblers. This year the Forum for CRN/RE IT 2011, organized by Russian editorial board, took place on 23th of November in Moscow. During this IT forum the best IT distributors in Russia were nominated.

For an estimations of distributors activity Editorial Board of CRN/RE choose the 12 criteria: "Price", "Profit program (including discount, rebate, etc.)", "Assortment range", "The presence of the product in stock", "The presence of B2B system (the possibility of making orders online, tracking of goods, etc.)", "The presence of clear standards (formal rules, procedures) to work with partners", "The flexibility and individual approach to partner", "The ability to solve problems", "Relationship Management with Vendors", "Financial support (loans / leasing / factoring, etc.)", "Consultation, assistance in project development" and  "Marketing Support".

Respondents had to fill a questionnaire consisting table of twelve criteria’s. Final evaluation of the distributor on particular criteria was calculated by finding the weighted average estimation for each point.

“We are grateful to all our partners, who highly appreciated the cooperation with ELKO”, said ELKO Moscow Sales Department Director Alexander Budilov, “we received this nomination as a result to the overall expansion of product portfolio, software supply, establishment of leadership in the product group of PC components and as well as a result of strict price and crediting policy. For us, this is a great honor to be the first in this group, but we are not intended to stop at the achieved and are looking forward to further development which includes more stable and successful cooperation with each of our partners."

Full results of the rating are published here!