I’m not sure why Ingram would want to do this type of deal given its position in the marketplace. Ingram Micro CEO addresses recent terror attacks I have reached out to many executives in distribution about this proposed deal from Ingram and no one yet has any knowledge of it. So was Ingram Micro close to merging with one of its chief rivals? I’d say no. That company decided to not even bother going through the process and dismissed Ingram right off the bat. Then in late February 2016 the China conglomerate HNA Group buys Ingram Micro for $6 billion.īut before Ingram solidified the deal with HNA, it made an overture to another competitor it described in the SEC file as a “global information and communication technologies company or its value-add distributor business.” Again, unnamed in the SEC report but be my guest if you want to guess. According to the story, Ingram’s rival decided to nix the deal because it thought there was no way the merger would be approved citing anti-competitiveness. But you can guess and have at least a 50/50 shot at being correct.
Let me speculate that it was either Tech Data or Synnex. The most interesting part was in the preliminary merger proxy area where the world’s top IT distributor exposed merger talks with its chief rivals in distribution as early as January of 2015.Ĭlick here if you want to read the whole thing, but I suggest to skip to page 24. Security and Exchange Commission) file made for some interesting reading today.
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