Spreading far and wide

Andy Wilson, Syndico’s managing director, tells Sam Fenwick the story of how his distribution company came to be, the challenges it faced, and its recent foray into France

Looking back, it seems hard to believe that Syndico has been up and running only since May 2015. Since then it has grown to become a business that is on target to achieve a turnover of around £8m for the current trading year and was recognised with the Hytera Diamond Award last year as the supplier’s number-one distributor in just its third year of trading.

But how did it all begin? “It started with my departure from another distribution business,” says Wilson. “Shortly afterwards, I was introduced to Hytera UK’s managing director. By that point they had been looking for a distribution partner for about six months or a year because they had more interest from lots of resellers in the UK than they could handle by themselves.

“I didn’t really know what I was going to do at the time but after five or six meetings, they said that if I could raise the funding to start a distribution business and place some stock orders with them, they’d be happy to make me Hytera’s official UK distributor.

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