Arrow Electronics Showcases and Supports HP Resellers at HP Technology Forum 2005.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The SBM Division of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW), one of the largest value-added distributors of HP enterprise products and integration services, today kicked off its participation in the first annual HP Technology Forum, HP's largest, most comprehensive technical training event to date. The HP Technology Forum begins today and continues through October 20 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

Arrow is providing several of its strategic reseller partners with a complete events package for the show, including a presence in the Arrow booth. Arrow's exhibit will feature a mountain-climbing theme with the tagline "Partners for Peak Performance." This theme highlights the ability of Arrow's reseller partners to successfully identify and implement the right HP solution in a wide variety of enterprises, irrespective of their computing environment.

Resellers showcasing their value-added HP solutions at Arrow's booth (#609) include: Cnetics Technologies (Norcross, GA), CSU Industries (Cedarhurst, NY), Dimension Data (Reston, VA), JTL Technical Services (Portsmouth, NH), ProSys Information Systems (Norcross, GA), and TSA (Houston, TX).

Arrow will also be supporting its partners with their own booths including: Forsythe (Skokie, IL), Logicalis (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Meridian Group (Deerfield, IL), Relational Technology Services (Columbus, OH), and Ted Dasher Data Systems (Birmingham, AL).

In addition to its presence on the show floor, representatives from Arrow's technical engineering team will spend time in the HP Certified Professional Hospitality Suite engaging in strategic discussions with its partners' HP Certified Professionals. This concentrated meeting time gives Arrow the opportunity to receive feedback and ideas, introduce new certification and training programs and help its partners create their 2006 strategic plans.

Arrow will also use the HP Certified Professional Hospitality Suite to communicate Arrow Solutions Lab capabilities, which include the ability to demonstrate HP BladeSystem server blades, HP StorageWorks XP12000 disk array and RISS (Reference Information Storage System), HP's all-in-one solution for storing, indexing and rapidly retrieving reference information.

"The HP Technology Forum gives us the opportunity to not only highlight the advanced capabilities of our HP reseller partners, but also to gather the information we need from our customers to continue delivering one of the industry's most valuable and comprehensive partner programs," said Michael Haley, vice president, SBM Division, Arrow Electronics. "By offering networking opportunities, feedback sessions and a booth presence, we are able to help our partners accelerate sales of HP solutions and services, which is the number one priority in all we do."

On October 18, Arrow will host a reception for representatives from the SBM Division of Arrow Electronics, HP, and HP resellers at Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress.

About the North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics

The North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) is a leading distributor of enterprise and embedded computing systems to resellers and OEM customers in North America. Based in Englewood, Colo., the group is comprised of four divisions that make up Enterprise Computing Solutions (Support Net, SBM, MOCA, Enterprise Storage Solutions) and OEM Computing Solutions, which serves complex and industrial OEM customers. Visit us at www.arrownacp.com.

Arrow Electronics is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and computer products and a leading provider of services to the electronics industry.