Avnet Inc. ranked among Information Week's top 500 information technology users.CULVER CITY Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 1995--Leon Machiz, chairman and chief executive officer of Avnet Inc., has announced Avnet's rating of 190th in Information Week's September 1995 rating of the 500 biggest and best corporate users of information technology in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Coming in at 190, Avnet shares the top 500 spotlight with such other technology leaders as AT&T, Digital Equipment Corp. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Machiz, "As a value-added distributor that uses technology to market technology, we are extremely pleased with our Information Week ranking, and to be the only distributor to have made the top 500 list." Recently having revamped the ranking process, the Information Week 500 editors said, "Our new methods make it tougher for companies to qualify for the top 500. But that also means companies on this year's list can truly claim a spot among the corporate elite." To rank organizations for the Information Week 500, Computer Intelligence InfoCorp., the leading source of fact-based information for the computer and communications industries communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. , built a number of technology scores, or rating, criteria for each site. It first looked at the technologies -- such as LANs, PCs, data center products and communications -- that a company had installed or planned to buy for each of its computer sites. For each of these technologies, products were weighted. For example, in LANs, a site would earn a higher score if there were multiple LANs present and if there were a high number of nodes. Once the data for each of these technologies at all 135,000 CII-tracked locations was aggregated, the site received a score. The next step was to add up all the sites belonging to a corporation and to provide an overall ranking. Headquartered in Great Neck, N.Y., Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ) is a Fortune 500 company with annual sales in excess of $4.3 billion. Avnet Inc. markets, inventories and adds value to the products of the most prestigious U.S. electronic components and equipment manufacturers for industrial and military customers. CONTACT: Avnet Inc. Mark Wood, 310/558-2708 |
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