About Us
In 1989 husband and wife team, John and Doris Rabbitt, having recognized the need for an electromechanical distributor that operated with integrity and focused on customer service, founded Kensington Electronics (KEI) in Orange County, California. Along with their sons and a growing team of industry professionals, KEI began added new lines to better serve the evolving telecommunications, medical and computer peripheral markets. After John Rabbitt's passing in 2003, KEI relocated to Austin, Texas, and has since become among the fastest-growing nationwide distributors of electronic components.
Over the last three decades, Kensington has evolved into a connector and electromechanical component specialist serving over 6,500 customers in the military-aerospace, industrial, solar, medical, telecom and automotive sectors with a level of service rarely seen in the industry. The foundation of our success continues to be our team of experienced professionals carrying on the KEI philosophy, a multi-million-dollar inventory of high reliability electronics, and a modern distribution facility.
Quality Traditions
From our inception, Kensington Electronics has put quality first: from the quality of the service we provide to the quality of products we deliver. Maintaining this standard over successive decades requires a constant effort to sustain strong partnerships with best-in-class manufacturers and to continuously improve our processes.
It starts with our products. Each vendor, for which we are an authorized distributor, is first carefully vetted and then periodically monitored. Kensington Electronics is an authorized distributor of every product we sell. Because we never broker parts from third-party sources, you can have confidence that our products are counterfeit free.
Kensington Electronics tracks and internally posts monthly on-time performance statistics of both incoming deliveries and line-by-line shipments. We use these metrics to incentivize our warehouse team with bonuses for error-free months. That's how much quality means to us and it's one of the keys to our continually meeting and exceeding our customer expectations.
KEI is currently AS9100D and ITAR registered and is a member of ERA and ECIA.
Mission
KEI strives to serve key business sectors, including emerging technologies, as a stocking distributor for the best manufacturers of connectors and select electronic and electromechanical components in the world. Our goal is to consistently provide impeccable quality and service at the best acquisition cost to our customers...and to expand our products and services to keep pace with our customers' evolving needs.
KEI: Not Just Products - Solutions
- Our seasoned industry pros can assist with sourcing the best parts for your application, including cross referencing, and have the technical expertise to support new product design and qualification efforts.
- Extensive range of on-site cable assembly services, including splicing and overmolding, for all volumes and mixes.
- Additional value-added services include bar coding, just-in-time inventory management, kitting, special packaging and special marking.
- Hundreds of thousands of part numbers stocked in our Austin warehouse available for same-day shipment (when order received by 2.30 PM CST).
- Incoming RFQs answered in 24 hours.
- Work with customers on new designs to stock product for estimated prototype and production needs using our proprietary Stock Allocation Program.
President's Statement on Quality
Quality, service and innovation are more than words at KEI, they describe the work ethic by which every KEI employee lives. This commitment has earned us a reputation as a distributor of consistently high-quality components that meet or exceed customer, manufacturer and military specifications and are delivered on time. Our reputation is backed by a tradition of developing new and creative procedures that help our customers compete in their individual markets more effectively and efficiently.
President
Kensington Electronics, Inc.
