French interest in the UK distribution market is growing, and after the buy-in at CPU Computer Group Plc from across the channel, the big Rapid Recall group is to become wholly French owned. Unitech Plc, which put Rapid Recall, its Celdis Italiana SpA subsidiary in Italy and its Nye Enatechnik GmbH in Germany together doing a profitable UKP100m a year – on the block in November (CI No 1,067), is selling the lot to its former French partner, Metrologie SA of Paris for UKP45m, making the firm a major European player – and is also selling Metrologie stake to French investors.