BSRIA is a consultancy, test, instrumentation and research organisation, who provide specialist services in construction, building services and facilities management. They issue their report on the structured cabling market every year at this time.
The period of time sales value was measured over was for the 1st January 2008 to the 31st December 2008. Excel held 9% of the total market, hot on the heels of ADC Krone,
Brand-Rex and Systimax in 3rd, 2nd and 1st respectively. The report also shows Excel as the third largest supplier of copper cable, just 3% behind Systimax.
Andrew Percival, Managing Director of Excel Networking Solutions comments, “BSRIA is a highly regarded global research organisation, their independent reports are a key tool in measuring our market presence and development, whilst we are always looking to improve given market conditions, from the mid point of 2008 with falling prices and available volume in the market, we are delighted to record a hat rick of 4th positions.”
Percival continued, “We are in great company in the top 4 and we are looking forward to the challenges this tier 1 peer group presents as we aim to grow our market share throughout 2009. We have a number of key product launches planned to help us achieve this goal, including pre-terminated MTP optical fibre products, Category 6a UTP solutions and a range of marketing activities in the pipeline to support our sales and business development teams.”