LONDON — The Abacus Group has been named as Varta Microbattery GmbH’s Distributor of the Year 2005, a year in which it doubled its sales of Varta products.

The Varta Microbattery franchise is managed by Micromark C&CD on behalf of the Abacus Group. Tim Parker, emech specialist at Abacus, said, “It is the aim of the Abacus Group to become the UK’s preferred supplier of battery products for industrial applications and our relationship with Varta is fundamental to making this happen.”

Gordon Clements, sales and marketing manager for Varta Microbattery added, “The growth achieved by the Abacus Group has been a tremendous achievement in difficult market conditions. The Varta Distributor of the Year award is given in recognition of a distributors sales achievement, forward order book and design-in success, all of which Abacus scored highly on.”

Presenting the award to Jerry Moss (centre) and Tim Parker (right) of the Abacus Group is Gordon Clements, Sales & Marketing Manager, VARTA Microbattery GmBH (left).