Raymarine names top distributor
By IBI Magazine
Turimpeks, Raymarine's Turkish distributor, was honoured again this year by the UK-based marine electronics company on the eve of the METS opening in Amsterdam this week. This time it received top billing as Distributor of the Year in the £1 million-plus (€1.4 million) category. METS was again the fitting backdrop to the presentation, which recognises distributors' best overall performance in their respective markets.
For this year's winner the award completes a double achievement: last year the company was voted Distributor of the Year in the development sector for 2006, so the 2007 award indicates that Turimpeks and Turkey have both effectively moved up into the top division in the marine electronics market league.
Peter Wales, Raymarine's sales manager for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, told IBI: The Turkish market is growing fast. For boating tourism it is now a major destination and is emerging also as an important yachtbuilding location also. We are delighted that Turimpeks, which has performed consistently well with Raymarine and its predecessors over the past 23 years, has firmly established us as the leading marine electronics brand in Turkey - a market which has its own business culture where it is essential to have a good local distributor."
According to Cem Tekdag, Turimpeks' managing director, the company increased its Raymarine turnover by 45 per cent in 2006 after achieving its bet-ever year the year before.
Also honoured by Raymarine as its Distributor of the Year in the sub- £1 million development sector this year is Eljachts of Poland.
(15 November 2007)
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