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Titel: MSC Vertriebs GmbH acquires majority share of ABLE Design GmbH Date: 20.03.2008
Stutensee, Germany, March 20, 2008 - MSC Vertriebs GmbH in Stutensee has acquired the majority stake in ABLE Design GmbH. In addition to sales of standard assemblies with TFT, electroluminescent and plasma displays, ABLE Design GmbH, which was founded in 1994 and is located in Munich, focuses mainly on the design of high-quality, customer-specific display solutions. In 2007, the company with twelve employees achieved revenues of 4.5 million Euros.

As early as 1995, ABLE Design was the first company to offer a fully digitally controlled plasma display. The company’s display specialists in Munich were also way ahead of their European competition in "Long-Distance LVDS-Interface" for digital displays, as a forerunner of today’s LDI or DVI standards. Today, ABLE Design is one the leading European suppliers of flat-panel display systems for the industrial market.

According to Manfred Schwarztrauber, managing director of MSC, the longstanding consulting and design expertise of ABLE Design in the fields of display technology, glass filters, interfaces, display controllers und housing technology complements in an ideal way the current display portfolio of the MSC Group. “Meanwhile, MSC und Gleichmann Electronics are among the largest distributors of displays in Europe. Obviously, the expectation of our customers is correspondingly high. An increasing number of customers not only want TFTs, LCDs, LCD modules or OLEDs, but preferably want to purchase the complete solution from us. However, despite their exceptional in-depth technical know-how, the focus of MSC Vertriebs GmbH and Gleichmann Electronics has, and always will be, classic components distribution. Thereby, ABLE Design’s display specialists help MSC Vertriebs GmbH and Gleichmann Electronics to continue to concentrate to a large extent on this core competence.”

Nowadays, most displays are supplied with customer-specific controllers or other user-specific modifications. With the support of Displaign Elektronik & Design GmbH in Munich, which is also part of the MSC Group, even complete controller designs can be implemented. The stake in ABLE-Design now closes all, as yet, open gaps. “From individual LEDs to sophisticated industrial displays right up to complete flat-panel display terminals for manufacturing equipment, vehicles and airports, there is now nothing that we could not deliver to the specific requirements of our customers,” says Manfred Schwarztrauber.

Gert H. von Steinaecker, managing director of ABLE Design, also sees this as a win-win situation for all parties. “In times of globalization, to be successful a company would be well advised to concentrate on its core competencies. The MSC Group’s design specialists benefit from the knowledge, experience and our reputation in several special fields. On the other hand, the commitment of MSC, a competent partner with 25 years market establishment, brings to ABLE Design, a small technology oriented company, completely new possibilities in the area of sales as well as national and international logistics.”

According to Manfred Schwarztrauber and Gert H. von Steinaecker, ABLE Design will, for the most part, continue as an autonomous company under its own name. “The philosophy of the MSC Group has always been characterized not only by quality and reliability, but particularly through continuity. The stake in ABLE Design will not change this,” says Manfred Schwarztrauber. The earnestness of both founders and veterans of the electronic industry with respect to continuity is underlined by the announcement of Gert H. von Steinaecker to be available as managing director of the company for a minimum of another three years. “Nobody closes an exciting book after only just having opened the second chapter.”


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