Master VAR QBS group has added 100 partners in a year and plans to double that in six months

About 1 year ago Netherlands-based QBS group assumed its role as a Microsoft Master VAR in western Europe. They announced today that they have been adding affiliate partners at a remarkable rate.  The company is now in 8 countries - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom - and they have already brought on one hundred Dynamics partners.

By the end of 2014 they expect to support as many as 200 partners in 10 countries, according to a new announcement.

"We support 100 partners, which serve on their side more than 16.000 customers and 125.000 end-users.," Joop van Voorthuijsen, CEO of QBS group, was quoted as saying. "Our focus is to add value to the business of our partners, our services are aimed at generating more revenue and a reduction of costs. It is our mission to strengthen the Microsoft partner network and it is great to see the results we are achieving."

QBS group's strengths as a Master VAR, such as support for its partners' marketing, services delivery, and sales come in large part from its leadership team's heritage. They came out of the larger IT Channel Company, which also includes Microsoft Dynamics partner development center (PDC) Partner Master Class and Conceptsales, a sales improvement services firm.

We'll be exploring the QBS group story in more detail soon. For now, it is worth pointing out that their Master VAR program as implemented in western Europe has some important differences from the ...