Premier Farnell acquires CadSoft

We are delighted to confirm this exciting opportunity for the business and the EAGLE software. Becoming part of the Premier Farnell Group provides CadSoft with a great opportunity to improve on what we can offer going forward.

Like CadSoft, Premier Farnell focuses on the needs of electronic design engineers and purchasing professionals throughout the world. Renowned for its high level of service and user friendly websites, Premier Farnell offers a stocked range of more than 400,000 products and has access to some 4,000,000 more. Better known as Farnell in Europe and Newark in the USA, it has a strong reputation for innovation, for its best in class, web-site search facilities, for the breadth and depth of its product information and for its new eCommunity site, element14.

The bringing together of the EAGLE software, element14, and Premier Farnell's vast product range means that Premier Farnell and CadSoft combined can offer electronic design engineers a complete on-line solution to all of their purchasing and development needs.

If you are an existing EAGLE user, whether of the freeware, Light, Standard or Professional edition, we assure you that our existing relationship is unaffected by the purchase. We will continue to develop the software and to offer the same support and service as before - from the same places, using the same number and with the same friendly expertise. The freeware version of EAGLE will also continue to be available. The only changes you should see will be positive ones, as Premier Farnell enables us to invest more time and development expertise to improve EAGLE even further.

We will keep you informed as these great opportunities come to fruition.

If you'd like more information on Farnell, please follow the link to www.farnell.com. For Newark, go to www.newark.com. And have a look at the on-line Community site for design engineers, element14 at www.element-14.com.