70 Years
Driving Great Design

Built on trust, driven to win, and engineered to solve your complex design and time-to-market challenges.

The Reality

You Build Solutions. What you need is a delivery system.

The electronics industry moves at F1 speed — but your market share should grow at a steady clip. Who do you partner with to penetrate a market and get your parts placed without a hitch?

KILFOIL has been the answer to this question since 1948. We’ve built an electronics ecosystem so your parts can hit the market and power solutions for the customer.

What We’ve Built

A Legacy Grounded in Long-Term Synergy

The KILFOIL story began in a partnership with Speer Electronics (now KOA Speer) to support their initial expansion into the Midwest electronics market. Seven decades and several targeted acquisitions later, we have grown our market partner network – our line card – into a premier electronics manufacturing ecosystem.

Today, under third-generation leadership, KILFOIL has expanded its original footprint from the Midwest into the New England technology corridor. We have fortified the traditional manufacturer’s rep model by bringing together strong distribution partnerships, premier marketing resources, and a technical sales team that engages the complex electronics ecosystem for you each day.
Deliverables

What We Bring To The Table

Here’s what you can expect when you partner with KILFOIL.

Accountability from Your Parts To Market

At KILFOIL, step one is our Launch Plan. Your Launch Plan sets activity targets in marketing touches, opportunities, distribution trainings, quotes, and new customers a month. You set the parameters of the plan; we implement it. Then we measure and calibrate as we go.

Bring us your TAM.

We’ll build a plan that drives your market share. No need to rattle our cage to get a read on the process points that drive your success. Your Launch Plan is working for you every day, with KPIs hitting your inbox before you ask.

Our Alignment

The Principles That Guide Our Partnerships

We hold ourselves accountable to execution metrics that protect your margins, your timelines, and your engineering integrity.

1

Operate with a Sense of Urgency

We tackle your objectives quickly and effectively. We compete to win. We operate with urgency.

2

Do the Right Thing

We hold the highest ethical standards. We live by honesty and do not compromise integrity or values for short-term gain.

3

Care For People

We go out of our way to care for our partners and employees. We build an environment where everyone can thrive. KILFOIL is a family and our market partners are part of it.

4

High-Quality People and Products

We value long-term relationships. We provide our partners with products, services and people of the highest quality in a long-term win for both of us.

5

Adding Value

We are passionate advocates to improve your competitive advantage. We only win if you win.

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Frequently Asked

Questions, Answers…

What is the benefit of working with a manufacturer’s rep like KILFOIL vs. other reps?
Simplicity, accountability, a team you can trust and consistent, steady progress to targets. Bring us your TAM, we’ll build a Launch Plan to drive your target market share by territory. We hold ourselves accountable to your plan so all you have to do is calibrate.
What geographical territories does KILFOIL actively support?
KILFOIL covers the Midwest, New England, Illinois / Wisconsin and Upstate New York territories, as our territory map demonstrates.
What can KILFOIL do for me that a distributor can’t?

There’s a place in the market for both of us – after all, we are partners! Our differences stem from our business model. At KILFOIL, we only win if you win: because your product is the only one of its type we carry, whereas a distributor will carry more than one manufacturer per product. That means we are tightly focused on the success of your specific product.

Moreover, we get to know our manufacturers as well as we know our customers. We know your designs, your process, and your culture from the inside. This knowledge helps us achieve long term wins between manufacturer and customer. Where distributors tend to focus on fulfillment, we seek the optimal placement of your parts in great designs to ensure a long term fit.

Partner with KILFOIL

Ready to get your parts placed in great designs?