Consortium was born in 1993 thanks to a team of traders. When they realised the deep changes in distribution's world of components industry and of the difficulties to face up to the multinational competition, they decided to create a national net merging virtually their firms. While they maintain their local connotation created an only interface for supplier appearing as national distributor. In Consortium every partner runs his area with consolidated structures. Centralizing same services and integrating the local products among them, with a strategic national interest, it is possible to develop the peculiarities in the zone of competence. The specialization of Consortium is in the passive electromechanical components, where a greater assistance is required to develop the product. Particularly with the emerging technologies as SMT, Press-fit, filtering, Emi / RFI. The companies of Consortium are: * Giamper in Belluno, * Alta in Firenze, * Cogedis in Milano, * Electronic Point in Torino, * Electronic Point in Roma,