SANTA MONICA, CA (October 6, 2015) – Master Electronics, a leading distributor of electromechanical, interconnect and passive components, announced today that it has added the Marquardt switch line to their extensive line card. “Marquardt has been a successful, independent family enterprise for 90 years.  Being a leading manufacturer in the field of electromechanical, electronic switches and switching systems, Marquardt products are an excellent fit to Master Electronics’ core competency,” said Riad Nizam, Senior Vice President of Sales and Product.

Marquardt National Sales Manager, Jack Moriarty, stated, “We are looking forward to our partnership with Master Electronics.  Master is a company very much like our own; family owned, globally recognized and respected and very easy to do business with.  Together the plan is to introduce our family of products to an orchestrated base of end users to achieve success selling switch products known for the highest quality.”

Nizam closed with, “Master Electronics and Marquardt are working diligently on this new partnership as we plan to offer a broad and deep stock offering at competitive prices.  We are proud to be named a preferred distributor of Marquardt’s family of products.  We anticipate a long and prosperous relationship between our companies.”

About Master Electronics

Master Electronics is a leading authorized electronic component distributor, dedicated to stocking a breadth of products offering customers over 400,000 in stock part numbers for immediate delivery. Master Electronics has over 45 years of industry experience with 9 sales branches in North America and 2 sales branches in Asia. Master is franchised for over 230 suppliers and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA. For more information, visit www.masterelectronics.com.

About Marquardt

Marquardt Switches Inc., still is located firmly in Cazenovia, the heart of Central New York.  The Marquardt Group operates in all the important markets all over the world and has offices at 14 locations in 10 countries with more than 8,000 employees in total - and everyone makes sure that ideas develop into marketable, cutting-edge technologies. In 2014, their annual turnover was 838 million Euro.