Milexia has acquired the distributor CEL

Milexia, a major European player in the sale of high-tech scientific components, systems and devices, has announced the acquisition of the company CEL (Components Electroniques Lyonnais).

Founded in 1986, CEL is a value-added distributor of electronic components and subsystems, telecom connection products and chemicals, mainly for the railway and industrial fields. Its personalized services revolve around the supply and implementation of complete technical solutions: from the definition of customer needs to delivery and integration, including the design phase.

In our interview with the Villeurbannaise company (Electronique number 137, July-August 2022), its president Alain Gorrec confided to us that its customers come in 70 to 75% of cases from the railway sector: “the company is very visible in the world rail – the SNCF is one of our major customers – thanks to its know-how and its knowledge of the environment and cycles throughout the chain, in the supply of components as well as in services”. 

Since 2009, CEL, which employs around thirty people, has had an agency based in Massy (Essonne) to cover its activities in Île-de-France and in the North. For its logistics operations, CEL uses a store in Villeurbanne, another in Nice which is dedicated to the Energy business, not to mention“two other logistics and handling subcontractors in Pithiviers and Bourg-en-Bresse”.

For Milexia, created in 1971 and present in France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany, the operation constitutes an important step in its growth plan, which targets the diversification of its presence “on the markets promising technologies and the considerable reinforcement of its technological offer”. 

 

Xavier Gaillard, its CEO, believes that the takeover will provide Milexia France with “synergy and perfect complementarity to our know-how” . Continuing,“The CEL teams, through their expertise and their presence in markets complementary to those of Milexia, reinforce the positioning of our group as the European leader in technological value-added distributors. This meets our growth ambitions in Europe to better serve our ecosystem of customers and partners.”

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