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Sunday Tribune

Electronic components, from disk drives to computer chips are now a commodity business.

Meet the commodity traders. In the space of six years, a small Dublin company Connect Electronics has built up a business with €50m sales and 700 clients across the world.

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Electronic Times

Dublin-based component distributor Connect Electronics has opened a UK office, undeterred by the econmic downturn.

The company, which quadrupled sales to more than $190m last year, is setting up in Harlow as part of a move towards further European expansion.

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Sunday Business Post

Connect Electronics, the Dublin-based distributor of electronic components is considering several partnership opportunities and the possibility of an initial public offering (IPO), according to managing director Sean Carty.

Online Articles

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breakingnews.ie

Irish company, Connect Electronics has acquired a €10m shareholding in Broad Band Communications as part of a management buyout.

Broad Band Communications is a telecom infrastructure company responsible for the development of Ireland’s largest ever infrastructure development project, T50.

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independent.ie

Irish distributor of board level components, Connect Electronics, is at the closing stages of acquiring two UK-based companies in tandem with a £5m investment in its Irish and US operations.

Connect will have the first £6m acquisition in the bag within weeks and will take over the second later this year.

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siliconrepublic.com

An Irish entrepreneur has acquired Spanish LED lighting supplier Lita Lighting in a multimillion euro deal.

Sean Carty, managing director of Dublin-based Connect Electronics, bought the Madrid-based firm for an undisclosed sum, and has recently opened Lita Lighting offices in Dublin.

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