Avnet Electronics Marketing and Samtec Commemorate Platinum Anniversary

Global electronic component distributor Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), recently presented a 20-year anniversary award to Samtec, Inc. (New Albany, Ind.), a privately-held worldwide manufacturer of printed-circuit board interconnects. Avnet has been distributing Samtec’s high-speed, high-density and micro interconnect products in North America since 1987. Samtec recently ranked number one in 12 categories in the Bishop and Associates Customer Survey of the Electronic Connector Industry for the 12th year in a row. Among those categories: product quality, meeting requested delivery dates and promised ship dates, sales rep support, customer service function, technical support and expertise. Avnet is Samtec’s fastest growing distributor and has helped the company grow its business by over $23 million in the past seven years. Phil Gallagher, president of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, presented the award to Samtec. "Samtec has maintained its unique approach to customer service and product development for over 20 years – helping them outpace other suppliers in these areas by two-to-one. This, combined with the technical knowledge of Avnet’s centralized sales team, is truly a winning combination,” said Gallagher. "It’s an honor to celebrate this 20-year partnership with Avnet – a partnership created to respond to our customers by providing the products and services they need,” said Jim Gribbins, national sales manager for Samtec. "Our mutual success over the past two decades is a testament to our ability to respond to and fulfill those customer needs.” For more information about Avnet and Samtec, please visit: www.em.avnet.com/samtec. About Avnet Electronics Marketing Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a Fortune 500 company. Avnet Electronics Marketing serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in more than 70 countries, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain services. The group's Web site is located at http://www.em.avnet.com. About Avnet Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and technology services and solutions with more than 300 locations serving more than 70 countries worldwide. The company markets, distributes and optimizes the supply-chain and provides design-chain services for the products of the world's leading electronic component suppliers, enterprise computer manufacturers and embedded subsystem providers. Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities, such as maximizing inventory efficiency, managing logistics, assembling products and providing engineering design assistance for its 100,000 customers, accelerating their growth through cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007, Avnet generated revenue of $15.68 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.