Abacus Electric
traditional Czech distributor
since 1992
Short history
The company was established in February
1992 in České Budějovice by two partners.
The business started with import of HDD,
RAM and CPUs. Purchase was always from
abroad since beginning. Abacus Computer
started to grow in import business and gained
significant market share on Czech market.
Further expansion was through group of
subsidiaries in the biggest cities in Czech
Republic and nowadays also abroad.
Important sales tool became B2B e-shop
Netkoloniál.
Main milestones
1992 company establishment
1997 opening subsidiary in Prague and
Ostrava
1998 start of PC mass produktion
1999 certificate ISO 9001
2001 opened B2B e-shop Netkoloniál
2005 creating of private brand Evolve
2008 opened subsidiary in Poland and
Slovakia
2011 opened subsidiary in Hungary
Basic data
Establishment date
Employees
Registered capital
Company type
Warehouse storage
2011 turnover
February 1992
45
35 000 000 CZK
~1 450 000 EUR
~1 840 000 USD
Ltd
1 970 m2
540 000 000 CZK
~22 500 000 EUR
~28 420 000 USD
Company chart
Servers sales chart
Main products
• IT products, peripherals and PC componets
• Servers, workstations, networking and PCs
• Consumer electronics and telco products
Main brands
• IT products, peripherals and PC componets
A4tech, AMD, Intel, OCZ, Samsung, LG, WD,
Cooler Master, Microsoft, Kingston, Patriot,
EVOLVE, etc.
• Servers, workstations, networking and PCs
Supermicro, Qsan, Mellanox, Thecus, HP,
TP-link, Asus, Areca, LSI, etc.
• Consumer electronics, home appliances
and telco products EVOLVE, LG, Samsung,
etc.
Private brand
Abacus created private brand EVOLVE in
late 2005. What was originally intended only
as name for few MP4 players turned into
huge portfolio of products. Curently we have
over 300 EVOLVE items on stock and the
volume is continuously growing.
EVOLVE product lines consists of consumer
electronics, IT components and green line
products like alkaline batteries charger or
LED light bulbs.
Basic figures
Although originally focused only on Czech
market, Abacus is spreading its activities
also to other countries of Middle Europe.
EVOLVE sales are currently in Czech
Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.
Also distribution contracts of Cooler Master
and Silverstone are for all these markets.
Number of customers with purchase at least
1x per month: 1100 companies
1x per year: over 3000 companies
Main sales channels are:
Retail
12%
E-tail
36%
Resellers
41%
Direct
11%
Important advantages
• three main focuses of business: IT parts,
servers/notebooks, consumer electronics
• high business rating by agency Dun &
Bradstreet, Inc. (1A1 rating/excellent)
• own private brand EVOLVE sold in Czech,
Slovakia, Poland, Netherlands and other
countries-very well recognized on markets
(Google search 21 mil. searches, Seznam.cz
search 7400/per week)
Important advantages
• active business in four middle European
countries
• four main sales channels (e-tail, retail,
resellers, direct)
• compact and skilled team of employees
• Abacus is the biggest Czech servers
vendor and main partner for AMD Opteron
for region of Middle Europe
Contacts
Abacus Electric, s.r.o.
• Planá 2, 370 01 České Budějovice
• Na Košince 5, 180 00 Praha
• Tvardkova 8, 710 00 Ostrava