{"id":474,"date":"2021-07-23T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onelink-dev.econocom.com\/uk\/?p=474"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:32:41","slug":"econocom-acquires-a-majority-stake-in-trams-one-of-apples-leading-b2b-resellers-in-the-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onelink-dev.econocom.com\/uk\/2021\/07\/23\/econocom-acquires-a-majority-stake-in-trams-one-of-apples-leading-b2b-resellers-in-the-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Econocom acquires a majority stake in Trams, one of Apple&#8217;s leading B2B resellers in the United Kingdom."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink-dev.econocom.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onelink-dev.econocom.com\/uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink-dev.econocom.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onelink-dev.econocom.com\/uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><h2><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat;font-size: 14px\"><strong>On 22 July, the Group announced the finalisation of the acquisition of a majority stake in Trams Ltd, an independent reseller of digital assets in the United Kingdom.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat;font-size: 14px\">Founded in 1990, Trams is a UK award-winning IT solutions provider benefiting from long-standing partnerships with Apple, HP, Lenovo, and Dell. The company offers a wide range of services to its B2B customers from defining needs, configuring environments, installing, and supporting hardware. Trams also provides all maintenance and recycling services for end-of-life products together with cloud hosting solutions for data storage and remote working.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat;font-size: 14px\">Trams employs around 40 people based in London and serves large international companies and well-known blue-chip brands. The company reported in FY20 revenue of \u00a342 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat;font-size: 14px\">By strengthening its footprint in one of its core Countries, the acquisition of Trams illustrates the announced restart of Econocom targeted acquisition policy to accelerate its growth path from 2021. Partnering with a company having premium vendor relationships fits perfectly into the group&#8217;s strategy to provide an attractive global distribution offering. In parallel, Trams will benefit from an enhanced client proposition to its clients leveraging on Econocom technology management and financing capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat;font-size: 14px\">The agreement grants Econocom an initial majority stake with the founders and key managers remaining fully committed to drive growth further benefiting from the synergies of the combined platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat;font-size: 14px\"><strong>Warren Peel, Managing Director of Trams<\/strong>\u00a0said: \u00ab<em>All Trams teams are delighted to join the Econocom group and benefit from its support to help us accelerate our development. We anticipate a great joint synergy potential, both on the commercial front and through the addition of new value-added expertise (Services and Financing in particular) that will certainly allow Trams to quickly change dimension\u00bb.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat;font-size: 14px\"><strong>Frances Weston, Managing Director of Econocom for UK and USA,\u00a0<\/strong>said: \u00ab<em>We are very pleased with this transaction, which will significantly strengthen our presence in the United Kingdom, a strategic development area for the group. We are also delighted to resume a new cycle of external growth after two years of consolidation. This acquisition opens a new era for Econocom as a Digital General Contractor<\/em><em>\u00bb.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat;font-size: 14px\"><strong>About Trams<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Montserrat;font-size: 14px\">Trams Ltd is an award-winning independent IT solutions provider, servicing large international companies and household brands. With strong vendor relationships and an in-depth knowledge of industry technology Trams can deliver tailor-made solutions and be the leading IT commodity supplier of major organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 22 July, the Group announced the finalisation of the acquisition of a majority stake in Trams Ltd, an independent reseller of digital assets in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1990, Trams is a UK award-winning IT solutions provider benefiting from long-standing partnerships with Apple, HP, Lenovo, and Dell. 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