Premier Farnell's 2nd quarter results (May-July 2012) are at:
Strategic highlights
• Our active customer base exited the second quarter up 1% on the prior year, excluding Raspberry Pi, with both EDE and MRO customer segments growing at a similar rate.
• Global MDD eCommerce penetration increased by 1.4 percentage points from Q4 2011/12 to the second quarter at 56.7% and exited at 57.7%.
• element14 Community received 1.7 million visits in the quarter maintaining strong progress following the peak arising from the Q1 launch of Raspberry Pi, with registered users increasing by more than 4,000 per month and now approximately 80,000 community interactions each week.
• Sales to international growth markets represented 22.5% of second quarter MDD sales with emerging markets increasing to 8.6% of the total.
• Raspberry Pi sales in the quarter of £3.9m, ahead of expectation, 90% of which was to 118,000 new customers.
• Our multi channel sales transformation continues with our Krakow contact centre on track and on budget.
• Embest acquisition in the quarter extends our service offering through embedded system design capabilities
