ARROW NEWS

First ‘Global Village’ Customer Event a Great Success for Arrow Finland

Arrow Finland attracted hundreds of customers to its first ‘Global Village’ event at the Kaapelitehdas in Helsinki, where they were able to meet with 45 electronics manufacturers, seven design houses and four sub-contractors. Also present were representatives from Tampere University of Technology. Feedback indicates that 95% of customers who attended would recommend the event to their colleagues.



The manufacturers formed a representative sample of Arrow’s full list of suppliers, with all product areas represented. As well as being able to visit a broad range of leading manufacturers, customers had the opportunity to attend three technical seminars and a roundtable discussion.

In the evening, entertainment was provided in the form of a cabaret, live band and dancing. The one-day event involved six months of intensive planning.

Veikko Sohlman, technical sales manager for Arrow Finland and the Global Village project leader, commented: “The event entailed a lot of hard work, especially as it was the first of its kind, but it was really worth it. The feedback from customers has been fantastic, with 95% saying they would recommend the event to colleagues. The suppliers, design houses and sub-contractors were equally enthusiastic.

“All in all, the Global Village was an excellent networking opportunity and a great chance to catch up on the latest technologies. We will definitely be organising a second Global Village, once we have had time to recover from the first!”

Arrow suppliers and other organisations present at the event:

Altera	Amphenol	Analog Devices	Atmel
Avago Technologies	AVX	Bourns	CMAC
Convergens Oy	Elo Touch	EPCOS	Espotel Oy
Etteplan Oyj	Fairchild Semiconductor	FCI	Fischer Connectors
Flexibilis Oy	Freescale Semiconductor	Fujitsu Components	Harwin
Hitachi Displays	Incap Oyj	Infineon Technologies	Integrated Device Technology
Intel	International Rectifier	Intersil	KEMET Electronics
Knitter-switch	Kontron	Kyrel Oy	Littelfuse
Micrel Semiconductor	Microsoft	Microteam Oy	Molex
National Semiconductor	NEC Tokin	Omron Electronic Components	ON Semiconductor
Panasonic	PartnerTech Åbo Oy	Philips Semiconductors	Reimax Electronics Oy
Renesas	RIA Connect	Samtec	Sharp Microelectronics
ST Microelectronics	Syfer Technology	Tampere Univ. of Technology	Texas Instruments
Toshiba	TT Electronics	Tyco Electronics	Vishay Intertechnology