DALLAS & FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 9, 2026--
Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest electronic components and industrial automation products, has been awarded the 2025 Americas Distributor of the Year by GCT, a leading manufacturer of innovative electronic interconnect solutions. The award was recently presented to Mouser during a meeting between the two companies at Mouser Electronics Headquarters in Mansfield, Texas. GCT cited outstanding performance across revenue growth, customer expansion, and product reach.
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"Mouser's dedication to supporting engineers and designers has been instrumental in helping GCT meet the needs of an ever-evolving market," said Richard Clark, Global Distribution Manager at GCT. "GCT and Mouser enjoy a strategic partnership, and we are pleased to recognize the Mouser team for their exceptional work."
"We are honored to receive this top award and thank GCT for the recognition," said Krystal Jackson, Mouser Vice President of Supplier Management. "GCT is a valued partner, and we look forward to many years of continued success."
GCT enables secure connections and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better, and safer. As a world leader in PCB connector and cable assembly solutions, companies worldwide trust GCT's extensive product range to enable connectivity in their designs. Mouser and GCT entered into a distribution agreement in 2021 and were previously awarded Global Distributor of the Year for 2024.
To learn more about GCT products available from Mouser, visit https://www.mouser.com/manufacturer/gct/.
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As a global authorized distributor, Mouser offers the widest selection of the newest semiconductors, electronic components and industrial automation products. Mouser's customers can expect 100% certified, genuine products that are fully traceable from each of its manufacturer partners. To help speed customers' designs, Mouser's website hosts an extensive library of technical resources, including a Technical Resource Center, along with product data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design information, engineering tools and other helpful information.
Engineers can stay abreast of today's exciting product, technology and application news through Mouser's complimentary e-newsletter. Mouser's email news and reference subscriptions are customizable to the unique and changing project needs of customers and subscribers. No other distributor gives engineers this much customization and control over the information they receive. Learn about emerging technologies, product trends and more by signing up today at https://sub.info.mouser.com/subscriber/.
About Mouser Electronics
Mouser Electronics is an authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on New Product Introductions from its leading manufacturer partners. Serving the global electronic design engineer and buyer community, the global distributor's website, mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 6.8 million products from over 1,200 manufacturer brands. Mouser offers 28 support locations worldwide to provide best-in-class customer service in local language, currency and time zone. The distributor ships to over 650,000 customers in 223 countries/territories from its 1 million-square-foot, state-of-the-art distribution facilities in the Dallas, Texas, metro area. For more information, visit https://www.mouser.com/.
About GCT
GCT is a manufacturer of standard and custom interconnect products with established sales, product development, and manufacturing facilities worldwide. The ever-growing product offering includes USB, board-to-board, SIM/MEM card connectors, FFC connectors/cables, and a range of RF connectors and cable assemblies. GCT products can be found across a wide range of applications, including Mobile and Wireless Communication, Computers and Peripherals, Industrial, Medical, Lifestyle Electronics, Automation, Instrumentation, and Consumer Electronics.
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GCT's 2025 Americas Distributor of the Year was recently presented to Mouser at the Mouser Electronics Headquarters in Mansfield, Texas.
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer battled Monday to cling to power as revelations about the relationship between the former U.K. ambassador to Washington and Jeffrey Epstein spiraled into a full-blown crisis for his 19-month-old government.
The prime minister's authority with his own Labour Party has been battered by fallout from the publication of files related to Epstein — a man he never met and whose sexual misconduct has not implicated Starmer.
Some lawmakers in Starmer's center-left Labour Party have called on him to resign for his error of judgment in appointing Peter Mandelson to the high-profile diplomatic post in 2024 despite his ties to the convicted sex offender. The leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, Anas Sarwar, joined those calls Monday, saying “the distraction needs to end, and the leadership in Downing Street has to change.”
“There have been too many mistakes,” Sarwar said, attempting to distance himself from the unpopular Starmer ahead of elections for Scotland's semi-autonomous Parliament in May.
Starmer’s chief of staff and his communications director have also quit in the last 24 hours. But Starmer’s office said Monday that he does not plan to step down.
“He has a clear five-year mandate from the British people to deliver change, and that is what he will do," Downing Street said in a statement.
After Sawar spoke, senior Cabinet colleagues spoke up to defend Starmer. Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy wrote on X: "We should let nothing distract us from our mission to change Britain and we support the Prime Minister in doing that."
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper posted: "At this crucial time for the world, we need his leadership not just at home but on the global stage." Treasury chief Rachel Reeves wrote: “With Keir as our Prime Minister we are turning the country around.”
Lawmakers considered likely candidates to replace Starmer also backed him, including his former deputy Angela Rayner, who said the prime minister “has my full support.”
Starmer was due to address Labour lawmakers behind closed doors Monday evening in an attempt to rebuild some of his badly weakened authority.
Starmer fired Mandelson last September after emails were published showing that he maintained a friendship with Epstein after the financier’s 2008 conviction for sex offenses involving a minor. Critics say Starmer should have known better than to appoint Mandelson in the first place. The 72-year-old Labour politician is a contentious figure whose career has been tarnished with scandals over money or ethics.
A new trove of Epstein files released by authorities in the United States last week has revealed more details about the relationship and put new pressure on Starmer.
Starmer apologized last week to Epstein's victims and said he was sorry for “having believed Mandelson’s lies.”
He promised to release documentation related to Mandelson’s appointment, which the government says will show that Mandelson misled officials about his ties to Epstein. But publication of the documents could be weeks away. They must be vetted on national security grounds and for potential conflicts with a police investigation.
Police are investigating Mandelson for potential misconduct in public office over documents suggesting he passed sensitive government information to Epstein a decade and a half ago. The offense carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Mandelson has not been arrested or charged, and he does not face any allegations of sexual misconduct.
Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, took the fall for the decision to give Mandelson the job by quitting on Sunday. He said he “advised the prime minister to make that appointment, and I take full responsibility for that advice.”
McSweeney has been Starmer’s most important aide since he became Labour leader in 2020 and is considered a key architect of Labour’s landslide July 2024 election victory. But some in the party blame him for a series of missteps since then.
Some Labour officials hope that his departure will buy the prime minister time to rebuild trust with the party and the country.
Senior lawmaker Emily Thornberry said McSweeney had become a “divisive figure” and his departure brought the opportunity for a reset.
She said Starmer is “a good leader in that he is strong and clear. I think that he needs to step up a bit more than he has.”
Others say McSweeney's departure leaves Starmer weak and isolated.
Opposition Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said Starmer “has made bad decision after bad decision” and "his position now is untenable.”
Since winning office, Starmer has struggled to deliver promised economic growth, repair tattered public services and ease the cost of living. He pledged a return to honest government after 14 years of scandal-tarred Conservative rule, but has been beset by missteps and U-turns over welfare cuts and other unpopular policies.
Labour consistently lags behind the hard-right Reform UK party in opinion polls, and its failure to improve had sparked talk of a leadership challenge, even before the Mandelson revelations.
Under Britain’s parliamentary system, prime ministers can change without the need for a national election. If Starmer is challenged or resigns, it will trigger an election for the Labour leadership. The winner would become prime minister.
The Conservatives went through three prime ministers between national elections in 2019 and 2024, including Liz Truss, who lasted just 49 days in office.
Starmer was elected on a promise to end the political chaos that roiled the Conservatives’ final years in power.
Labour lawmaker Clive Efford said Starmer’s critics should “be careful what you wish for.”
“I don’t think people took to the changes in prime minister when the Tories were in power," he told the BBC. “It didn't do them any good.”
The front door of 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
FILE - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, talks with Britain's ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador's residence on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 in Washington. (Carl Court/Pool Photo via AP, file)
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks with members of the audience after delivering a speech at Horntye Park Sports Complex in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
