It was early 2008, just before the financial crisis, that Franky Vanlerberghe, an electronics man in heart in soul, saw a market for a niche player in the distribution of connectors and cable harnesses. He decided to take his chances from an attic in a small village in Belgium. First on his own and then a year later his former colleague and brother-in-law Maarten Voermans joined and the birth of the private company A&C Solutions was a fact.