Tech Data, a distributor of technology products, has claimed that it will now be offering 3D TVs and Lenovo IdeaPad laptop PCs.

Tech Data (News - Alert) claimed that they are leveraging strategic relationships with hardware and software vendors to bring emerging and in-demand consumer-class products to its growing customer base of traditional brick-and-mortar retailers and Web-based e-tailers through their Consumer Technology Group.  

Tech Data provides retailers access to a broad and growing line card of consumer technologies including networking devices, server and storage hardware, notebooks and desktop computers, printers and scanners, HD TVs, cameras, peripheral products and accessories, power devices, as well as operating systems and security, business intelligence and other office productivity software applications. 

The above mentioned products are offered in conjunction with a comprehensive range of services, including innovative financing, technical training and industry events, and scores of business-development programs and productivity enhancing e-business tools to help the reseller operate their business more efficiently. 

Tech Data’s Senior Vice President of U.S. Marketing, Joe Quaglia has stated that the diversification of the products they sell and the customers they serve is a key component of Tech Data’s ongoing growth strategy. The addition of 3D TVs from some of the industry’s leading manufacturers enhances their ability to capitalize on the emerging demand for exciting 3D products hitting the market. 

According to DisplaySearch, a global market research and consulting firm specializing in the display supply chain, 3.4 million 3D TVs will be shipped in 2010 and is expected to increase to 42.9 million by 2014. Tech Data offers authorized retailers access to 40- to 60-inch 3D LCD TVs, 3D glasses and Blu-ray Disc players.

Tech Data also distributes a broad array of 3D-capable projectors. Lenovo’s (News - Alert) IdeaPad laptops are the latest additions to Tech Data’s consumer-class mobile computing product offering that includes laptops, notebooks, netbooks and other mobile computing devices from major manufacturers. 

IDC (News - Alert), a market research firm added that the PC market is expected to grow at nearly 20 percent this year and “portable PCs will remain the driver of growth across consumer and commercial segments.”

Technology companies including Apple, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM (News - Alert), Lenovo, McAfee, Microsoft, Sony, Symantec and VMware along with hundreds of others are stated to be depending on Tech Data to bring their products to market.