Duffel, May 28^th 2014 – Healthy continued growth of Exclusive Networks Group during Q1 2014 is being attributed to a number of factors, including significant growth within the regions, general market recovery and strong performance within its vendor portfolio. Financial results for the first quarter of 2014 reveal a 38% like-for-like growth in revenues to 111m€. The performance means the Group is ahead of target for the period and margin is in line with expectations, as the Company begins to benefit from economies of scale and operational efficiencies.

“We are seeing our acquisitions towards the end of last year performing better than we expected,” explains Olivier Breittmayer, CEO of Exclusive Networks Group. “The Middle East especially has delivered excellent results, while our consolidation in Benelux and early indicators of market recovery in some Southern Countries have combined to deliver a record quarter for us. In addition, core vendors such as Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks continue to out perform their sector growth rates, taking market share against more traditional IT security infrastructure vendors, while our early investment into vendors like FireEye and Arbor are now paying substantial dividends.”

Renowned for bringing innovative and disruptive technologies to the EMEA marketplace, Exclusive Networks Group specialises in security, network and data centre transformation solutions from a range of market-leading vendors. In order to achieve such strong growth, Exclusive Networks continues to identify and execute acquisition targets in key territories to expand its market reach while remaining true to its value-adding principles. In addition, the company has recently expanded into Denmark, a move that has strengthened the Group’s EMEA presence.

“We pride ourselves on our ability to anticipate market change and translate these into go-to market opportunities that not only benefit multiple vendors, but can successfully equip resellers with everything they require to take advantage,” adds Olivier Breittmayer. “Take our CARM initiative for example. As data breaches become inevitable, CARM (Cyber Attack Remediation & Mitigation) is the perfect initiative at the perfect time. Additionally, our investment into the data centre transformation business through our Big Technology Division continues to gain momentum and market relevance.”

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About Exclusive Networks Group

Exclusive Networks Group connects established and emerging global technology vendors to markets throughout EMEA via its ‘Super VAD’ - value-adding distribution model. Exclusive Networks Group specialises in security, networking, infrastructure and storage solutions for the ‘Smarter Social Enterprise’ and trades with thousands of reseller partners.

Operated as a tightly integrated group of nationally focused, independent and entrepreneurially led business units, Exclusive Networks Group has become renowned for bringing innovative and disruptive technologies to the EMEA marketplace, and sustaining their growth success over the long term.  Since 2003 it has achieved significant growth of its own and shared commercial success by providing accelerated go-to-market momentum for its vendor, integrator, VAR and service provider partners through consultancy, engineering, sales, marketing, training and technical support services.

Headquartered in France, Exclusive Networks Group is present in over 20 other countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

About Big Technology

Big Technology is a value added distributor dedicated to addressing the needs of the user driven, software defined datacentre, and delivering world-class infrastructure solutions alongside its vendor and reseller partners. With offices in Theale, Reading, Big Technology operates as a division of Exclusive Networks UK, part of the pan-European Exclusive Networks Group.

With a unique portfolio of disruptive vendor solutions and leveraging Exclusive Networks’ established, successful approach to achieving market penetration for new and innovative technologies, Big Technology employs highly specialised engineering and consulting skills. Its choice of technologies reflects the importance of ensuring efficiency, elasticity, economy and low latency within the intelligent, automated user driven datacentre.

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Jürgen De Wolf

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