Omnilogic International SA, the French computer group with subsidiaries in six European countries including divisions in the Benelux countries and a controlling stake in CPU Computer Group Plc in the UK, has employed a new broom to tidy up the messy logistics side of its operation. Pierre Delphin, ex-European managing director of JWP/Businessland and this month appointed Omnilogic chief executive, said one of the top priorities for 1992 was to centralise purchasing agreements, which are currently made by each country separately. Over the coming months, Delphin will be contacting its main suppliers which include Intel Corp, Microsoft Corp, Western Digital Corp and Canon Inc – to renegotiate existing deals to cover the six markets in which it is present. Delphin added that he is also looking to employ the current management more effectively and to improve communications across the group by installing a central database of client and product information. He gave no forecast for the 1992 turnover of the group, which last year said it made $295m. Omnilogic is 100%-owned by the Paris-quoted French trading company SCOA SA. Its name was one of those rumoured to be a possible takeover candidate within a European computer distribution characterised by consolidation around a handful of large players. Delphin stressed that no such talks were being held today, and that it was definitely not the group’s hypothesis to merge.
