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TTI names Paula Renfrow director of marketing

TTI, Inc. recently named Paula Renfrow director of marketing. Renfrow replaces 24-year company veteran Tim Scott, who will retire from TTI at the end of January.

Renfrow has held a number of operations management positions with technology manufacturing marketing companies and is no stranger to TTI. She began her 27-year career as a component buyer, a role in which she purchased resistors from TTI. Most recently, she worked as a channel marketing consultant for a Seattle-based marketing group.

“Paula brings a diverse work background to TTI, having experienced our business from a number of different angles,” said Michael Knight, senior vice president, TTI Americas. “Her management, marketing and agency experience will be invaluable as TTI’s marketing program continues to position the company for growth during a time in which many of the traditional marketing and customer reach methods are quickly changing.”

In her new role, Renfrow will oversee the marketing department, including communications, supplier co-op and corporate events. She will be involved with the sales and product management teams at TTI, as well.

Acquisitions
Heilind acquires Kotek Electro Electronica; WESCO, Arrow complete acquisitions

Heilind Electronics announced its acquisition of Kotek Electro Electronica, a leading distributor of electronic components in Brazil.

“We are very pleased to be expanding into South America and making Kotek and its employees part of the Heilind family," said Robert W. Clapp Heilind president. “Kotek's leadership in customer service and technical support will greatly enhance Heilind's ability to support our South American customers.”

Kotek is a privately held company serving electronics OEMs and contract manufacturers from its Sao Paulo headquarters.

In other acquisitions news, WESCO announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition of RS Electronics, and Arrow announced the completion of its purchase of Beijing, China-based distributor Seed International.

New and Expanded Distribution Agreements

Digi-Key expanded its global distribution agreement with Microsemi Corp. to include programmable logic solutions, including the company’s SmartFusion® customizable system-on-chip (cSoC) products, low-power field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and related evaluation boards.

EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company announced a distribution agreement to promote and deliver Micron Technology, Inc.’s memory products to customers in Europe.
Farnell announced a new distribution agreement with electrical/electronic equipment safety product specialist Peccater in which Farnell will offer the company’s innovative Thermiac devices, which provide a unique solution to protect against equipment damage and fire risks caused by overheating when operating temperatures exceed 80ºC. Farnell also announced the addition of three new LED lighting connectors from interconnection specialist JAE. Farnell will become the first European distributor to stock the ES3 series.
Murata Electronics North America expanded its distribution agreement with Future Electronics to include Murata’s power solutions offerings.
Heilind Electronics has added 3M's line of CFast products, including headers, connectors and card ejectors to its distribution network.

Mouser announced new distribution agreements with Micrium and Cellergy recently. Mouser will distribute Micrium’s embedded products worldwide and will represent Cellergy’s supercapacitors for low-voltage, high-current, high-capacity applications. Mouser also announced the addition of new products from Texas Instruments, TE Connectivity and Cree. Mouser now stocks Texas Instruments DK-LM3S-DRV8312 Motor Control Kit for Stellaris® Microcontrollers, a development platform for spinning 3-phase brushless DC and brushless AC motors; TE Connectivity’s CXP Pluggable I/O Connectors as well as its Fortis Zd backplane connectors; as  well as Cree’s CLA1B-WKW/MKW PLCC4 SMD LEDs.

TTI Inc. announced an expanded distribution agreement with Harwin to represent the company’s interconnect products in the Americas as well as in Europe.

Events
Don’t miss these upcoming industry events worldwide:

CARTS International 2012
March 26-29, 2012
Las Vegas
http://www.eciaonline.org/meetings/CARTSInternational/2012/index.htm

EDS 2012
May 7-10, 2012
Las Vegas
http://www.edsconnects.com/

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