- The leading international high service distributor of electronic, electrical and industrial supplies
- Trading as RS in the UK, most of Europe and Asia, Radiospares in France, Radionics in Republic of Ireland and Allied Electronics in North America
- 1.6m customers
- 450,000 products
- Around 5,700 employees
- Operating in 26 countries, covering 82% of the world’s GDP with distributors in many more
- Revenue of £925m
- Selling via catalogues, e-Commerce and trade counters
- 33% of sales via e-Commerce at March 2008
- Websites in 17 languages covering 70 countries