Westcoast Limited

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Westcoast Limited
Company typeLimited
Industry Computing
Founded1984
FounderJoe Hemani [1]
Headquarters Theale, Reading, United Kingdom [2]
Key people
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Sunil Madhani (finance director)
Revenue£2.5bn [3] [1]
Number of employees
1600 [1] [3]
Website www.westcoast.co.uk

Westcoast Limited, also known as Westcoast Group, provides IT products and services, including storage systems, servers and workstations. [4] It provides goods and services business to business and to the education sector. [5] [6] In 2021, Westcoast became the largest IT distributor in the United Kingdom. [7]

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Established in 1984, the Westcoast Group remains privately held with its distributor arm, Westcoast Limited, distributing leading IT brands such as HP, HPE, Microsoft, Lenovo, Apple, and many others to a broad range of resellers, retailers and office product dealers in the UK and beyond. [8]

Westcoast Limited has grown to become the number one UK distributor for many vendors and customers. The Westcoast Group employs more than 1,600 people across a number of locations in the UK, Ireland and Europe.

Westcoast Limited was the largest privately owned company in the Thames Valley before being a merger with European distributor ALSO group was announced in July 2024

History

The company was founded in 1984 in Reading, United Kingdom. [9]

Orion Media Marketing, printer consumables distributor was acquired in 2005. [10]

In 2006, the company bought Irish IT distributors Clarity.

XMA merger

Westcoast merged with XMA, a printer consumables distributor, in 2008. However, no operations were consolidated and XMA continued as a distinct brand and entity. [11] XMA also had a distribution centre in Milton Keynes. [12]

The XMA operation was merged with Viglen in 2014. [13] [14]

Westcoast bought Nottingham, UK based ArtSystems in 2016. The company supply 3d printing equipment. [15] [16]

By 2017, XMA had a turnover of £350m. [17]

Operations

Westcoast distributes to the UK and Ireland from its centres in Reading, Nottingham, Milton Keynes and Europe. It has a data centre in Wales. [18]

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