Brussels, 05/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 2 July, the European Commission cleared the planned acquisition of Bell Micro by Avnet, a deal notified on 28 May 2010. Avnet and Bell Micro are both US-based distributors of information technology products. The Commission examined the effects of the proposed transaction on the market for the wholesale distribution of IT products in the European Economic Area (EEA), and in particular for the distribution of data storage products and servers in...