A unit of Santa Ana’s Ingram Micro Inc., the biggest distributor of technology products, software and consumer electronics, is said to have purchased a small distributor in Belgium.
Ingram bought InterAct BVBA, which is headquartered in Aartselaar, Belgium.
Terms of the deal, presumably small, weren’t disclosed.
InterAct specializes in reselling software and providing services to companies looking to set up a cloud computing network, which essentially outsources large database programs and other applications to others’ servers.
InterAct has 15 workers and sees yearly sales of roughly $13 million, according to a report on Connecticut-based technology news website TMCnet.com, which is run by Technology Marketing Corp.
The company has some 500 customers in the area it covers, primarily Belgium and Luxembourg.
Ingram Micro’s Belgium operations has 200 workers and saw about $654 million in revenue last year.
InterAct Chief Executive Rudi Lenaerts is set to nab the new title of director, value division, and report to Ingram Micro Belgium’s managing director Steve Meynen.
Ingram Chief Executive Greg Spierkel told Reuters last month that the company was “considering a range of acquisitions.”
It’s part of a larger effort by Ingram Micro in the past few years to offer more services to its customers, which are called “value added resellers” in the industry.
Offering services helps Ingram boost profits in its low-margin distribution business, which nets pennies on the dollar.
Some buyout targets include companies that do customer data collection, corporate computing, logistics, mobile technology and cloud computing services, Spierkel said.
Ingram has recently expanded its software business with a handful of deals designed to boost profits amid a projected uptick in corporate spending.
It has bought four small companies in the past year in a bid to be a bigger player in software distribution, which involves selling and managing licenses, installation and customer support.
The company made two software acquisitions in July.
Ingram bought Hong Kong’s Asiasoft Hong Kong Ltd. for undisclosed terms. Asiasoft distributes licenses for business software that does virtualization, security, system and desktop management, networking and business planning.
Asiasoft also provides training, consulting and support services.
Ingram also picked up Spain’s Albora Soluciones SL, a provider of business software based in Barcelona.
Albora Soluciones deals in what’s known as middleware, or software that links different applications on a network.
Ingram is the biggest company of any type in Orange County, with more than $30 billion in yearly sales and a recent market value of about $2.5 billion.