A global product & service solutions provider for industrial customers.
From humble beginnings to epic global adventures, our journey has been nothing short of extraordinary—and the best is yet to come.
It all started in a London garage in 1937, where visionaries J.H. Waring and P.M. Sebestyen founded Radiospares Limited. They dreamed of supplying radio repair shops with essential spare parts. By 1954, we expanded into selling electronic components, and in 1971, we evolved into RS Components, marking a new era of innovation.
Since then, we've been on an unstoppable path of growth—establishing operations in 36 countries, surpassing £1 billion in online revenue by 2017, and uniting our entire group under one brand in 2023.
Our commitment to excellence and customer empowerment has always been at the heart of what we do.
Today, we're proud to provide global access to an unrivalled selection of over 800,000 stocked industrial and electronic products, sourced from over 2,500 leading suppliers, and offer a wide range of value-added solutions to over one million customers.
Every day, our dedicated team of experts goes above and beyond to solve our customers' challenges in design, procurement, inventory management, and maintenance. With operations in 36 countries, we trade through multiple channels and ship over 50,000 parcels a day.
We aim to offer our customers an unrivalled choice of product technologies, solve problems with innovative solutions, and deliver a world-class customer experience.
Our purpose highlights our intent to inspire both present and future generations to make a lasting difference. Our culture of fresh thinking and focus on customer experience establishes us as the first choice for the stakeholders we partner with.
Our people, suppliers, customers, communities, and shareholders are at the core of what we do and enable us to turn imagination into impactful change. This is encapsulated in our ESG action plan, "For a Better World," with four global goals to be achieved by 2030.
Through our Industry Hub we've collated our wide range of industry specific campaigns to help you get the most from your equipment, applications, and projects. For procurement professionals, we've created Connected Thinking to provide valuable insight and expertise to both businesses and individuals involved in the sectors we support. We don’t simply supply customers with products; we collaborate with organizations to help identify better working practices that will help them achieve sustainable efficiencies.
We want to nurture and encourage the future engineering workforce by providing everyone - from primary school ages through to university students - with access to STEM-based lesson plans and projects to develop their skills and passion for all things engineering.
Join us as we continue this exciting journey, and let's #MakeAmazingHappen together.
Our values help to set a clear expectation about how it feels to work at RS, no matter what you do or where you are. They were created with the input of our people from around the world. Now we have one set of values that unite our business and differentiate us from our competition.
Each value is important on its own, but they’re even more powerful when used together.
We are one team, who deliver brilliantly, doing the right thing to make every day better!
We listen, respect and trust each other. We seek diverse perspectives. We collaborate with purpose, as one connected team.
We are empowered, take ownership and deliver what customers need with energy and passion.
We care about our impact on colleagues, customers, suppliers and communities, today and tomorrow.
We are adaptable, agile and inspired to innovate and make positive changes, always finding ways to improve, challenge and simplify.
