Abacus Electric

traditional Czech distributorsince 1992

Short historyThe company was established in February 1992 in České Budějovice by two partners. The business started with import of HDD, RAM and CPUs. Purchase was always from abroad since beginning. Abacus Computer started to grow in import business and gained significant market share on Czech market. Further expansion was through group of subsidiaries in the biggest cities in Czech Republic and nowadays also abroad. Important sales tool became B2B e-shop Netkoloniál.

Main milestones1992 company establishment1997 opening subsidiary in Prague and Ostrava1998 start of PC mass produktion1999 certificate ISO 90012001 opened B2B e-shop Netkoloniál2005 creating of private brand Evolve2008 opened subsidiary in Poland and Slovakia2011 opened subsidiary in Hungary

Basic dataEstablishment date February 1992Employees 45Registered capital 35 000 000 CZK

~1 450 000 EUR~1 840 000 USD

Company type LtdWarehouse storage 1 970 m2

2011 turnover 540 000 000 CZK~22 500 000 EUR~28 420 000 USD

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Servers sales chart

Main products

• IT products, peripherals and PC componets

• Servers, workstations, networking and PCs

• Consumer electronics and telco products

Main brands• IT products, peripherals and PC componetsA4tech, AMD, Intel, OCZ, Samsung, LG, WD,Cooler Master, Microsoft, Kingston, Patriot,EVOLVE, etc.

• Servers, workstations, networking and PCsSupermicro, Qsan, Mellanox, Thecus, HP,TP-link, Asus , Areca, LSI, etc.

• Consumer electronics, home appliances and telco products EVOLVE, LG, Samsung, etc.

Private brandAbacus created private brand EVOLVE in late 2005. What was originally intended only as name for few MP4 players turned into huge portfolio of products. Curently we have over 300 EVOLVE items on stock and the volume is continuously growing.

EVOLVE product lines consists of consumer electronics, IT components and green line products like alkaline batteries charger or LED light bulbs.

Basic figuresAlthough originally focused only on Czech market, Abacus is spreading its activities also to other countries of Middle Europe.EVOLVE sales are currently in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. Also distribution contracts of Cooler Master and Silverstone are for all these markets.

Number of customers with purchase at least1x per month: 1100 companies1x per year: over 3000 companies

Main sales channels are:Retail 12%E-tail 36%Resellers 41%Direct 11%

Important advantages• three main focuses of business: IT parts, servers/notebooks, consumer electronics• high business rating by agency Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. (1A1 rating/excellent)• own private brand EVOLVE sold in Czech, Slovakia, Poland, Netherlands and other countries-very well recognized on markets (Google search 21 mil. searches, Seznam.cz search 7400/per week)

Important advantages• active business in four middle European countries • four main sales channels (e-tail, retail, resellers, direct)• compact and skilled team of employees• Abacus is the biggest Czech servers vendor and main partner for AMD Opteron for region of Middle Europe

ContactsAbacus Electric, s.r.o.• Planá 2, 370 01 České Budějovice• Na Košince 5, 180 00 Praha• Tvardkova 8, 710 00 Ostrava