OREANDA-NEWS. April 07, 2010. MERLION, leading Russian IT Distributor and TEAM Group Inc., world’s leader in production of high-speed memory modules, announce the signing of a distributor agreement. The agreement has an indefinite term of validity and covers the entire range of solutions offered by the vendor.

TEAM Group Inc. was founded in the USA, in Silicon Valley, in 1988. In 1994 it opened its headquarters and production facilities in Taipei. Today, TEAM is a recognized world’s leader in manufacturing high-speed memory modules and has been honored with many top awards. Its product line includes RAM chips, memory cards of all formats, flash drives, SDD’s, and external HDD’s. The Company has its divisions in Taipei, in the US, in Japan, Hong-Kong, Singapore, in the Middle East and in Brazil.

For MERLION, the area of data storage media is one of strategically important ones, and the new vendor will contribute to its further development. The goal set for the distributor is to promote the vendor on the Russian market, both by boosting sales through the existing distribution channel (and that is over 300 partners), as well as by engagement of new partners.

As it was mentioned by TEAM Group Inc, it has chosen MERLION to be its new distributor because of the successful experience of the Company in development of “memory” product category, strong positions on the IT market as a whole, and on the retail IT market in particular. “No doubt, today MERLION is one of the best performing distributor companies giving us the opportunity to reach all Russia’s regions.”

“We would like to congratulate MERLION’s partners with expansion of the flesh drive product range thanks to introduction of new TEAM brand. Flash drives from this vendor feature unique design, non-trivial packing, and, the most important, high quality. TEAM forges ahead and shall surprise Russian market with new solutions. MERLION, as our Distributor, guarantees availability of TEAM products at its warehouses at all times, as well as setting a reasonable market price,” that is a comment on MERLION’s new status of an Official Distributor by Rustam Nesterovich, Flash Storage Procurement Manager, MERLION.

As of today, MERLION is the only Official Distributor of TEAM products in the territory of Russia.

The first lot of TEAM products is already at the warehouse. The products are available for ordering.