Top Channel Suppliers

By CRN Staff, CRN
September 15, 2006 3:00 PM ET

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Distributors and resellers are ranked within each category by the percentage of solution providers that indicated they purchased from the company over the last 12 months. Solution providers also selected their "single main reason" for purchasing from the supplier and indicated whether the supplier was a strategic, major or minor source of product.

Company	Ingram Micro, Santa Ana, Calif.
Rank	1
% Doing Business With	37.9%
Top Three Single, Main Reasons Solution Providers Purchase From Supplier	Breadth of products Price & availability Ease of doing business
Strategic Source	32.1%
Major Source	40.8%
Minor Source	27.2%

Company	Tech Data, Clearwater, Fla.
Rank	2
% Doing Business With	37.1%
Top Three Single, Main Reasons Solution Providers Purchase From Supplier	Breadth of products Price & availability Relationships
Strategic Source	26.3%
Major Source	42.3%
Minor Source	31.3%

Company	Synnex, Fremont, Calif.
Rank	3
% Doing Business With	22.4%
Top Three Single, Main Reasons Solution Providers Purchase From Supplier	Price & availability Breadth of products Relationships
Strategic Source	29.4%
Major Source	34.1%
Minor Source	36.5%

Company	D&H Distributing Harrisburg, Pa.
Rank	4
% Doing Business With	13.3%
Top Three Single, Main Reasons Solution Providers Purchase From Supplier	Unique products Price & availability Breadth of products
Strategic Source	14.9%
Major Source	40.6%
Minor Source	44.6%

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