“The AB Group estimates that the availability of some products on the market, especially the more advanced ones, remains disrupted, while the availability of some of the remaining products has improved,” said CEO Andrzej Przybyło.
“The availability is not the best yet, in advanced technologies (servers, routers) it is still bad. There is no improvement in products such as printers or game consoles, but there is improvement in notebooks,” said Przybyło during the videoconference.
As he emphasized, it is paradoxically good news that the company has a large deferred project and tender demand, which will start when equipment supplies are “unblocked”.
“If deliveries to Russia are blocked, it will definitely help us, because these deliveries will be spread over a smaller number of countries, and Russia is a large market,” added the president.
The head of the AB Group also informed that about 15% of the Ukrainian employees of the group decided to return to Ukraine.
“We expected it to be worse, but the vast majority of our employees from Ukraine started families here and it can be said that they have their ‘nest’ on our side of the border,” he stressed.
He emphasized that the company was still positive about its prospects.
“We are secured and we do not see any significant negative impact of the current situation on our business,” summed up Przybyło.
The AB Group is one of the largest entities conducting distribution activities in the IT industry in the Central European region, including Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. AB S.A. is a company listed on the main market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2006. In the 2020/2021 financial year (from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021), it had PLN 13.7 billion of consolidated revenues.
Source: AB Group and ISBnews
