Avnet Kent Honored by ITT Cannon.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2002 ITT ITT Initial Teacher Training (UK) ITT I Think That ITT Invitation To Tender ITT Individual Time Trial (professional cycling) ITT Intention-To-Treat ITT In This Thread (forums) Industries, Cannon recently honored long-time distributor Avnet Kent for exemplary performance. Avnet Kent was presented the "Outstanding Performance 2001" award by Cannon's Connectors Americas (CCA (1) (Common Cryptographic Architecture) Cryptography software from IBM for MVS and DOS applications. (2) (Compatible Communications A ) management. The criteria used to select each winner included dollar and percentage performance during 2001, as well as partnership and teamwork. "A manufacturer couldn't ask for a better channel partner than Avnet Kent," said Frank Breslin, director of Marketing and Sales for Cannon's Connectors Americas business. "Avnet Kent's achievements are even more noteworthy given the extremely challenging business climate for the electronics industry in 2001. Distributors were certainly not immune to these challenges, however Avnet Kent persevered with Cannon business despite the weakened economy." "This award is symbolic of the importance we at Avnet Kent place on our relationship with Cannon, which began half a century ago. Cannon's quality products have been instrumental in helping Avnet Kent become the leader in Mil/Aero interconnect (1) To attach one device to another. (2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another. distribution," said Tom McCartney, president of Avnet Kent. "Avnet Kent consistently delivered the highest performance in point-of-sale and bookings by our channel partners," said Dave Ptacek, CCA's director of Distributor Marketing & Sales. "The Cannon and Avnet Kent teams share a common philosophy about how to grow our businesses to optimize market share. In fact, we are about to deploy several important initiatives that will help both companies enhance market share on key product lines." "At Avnet Kent we are dedicated to providing the highest value to our customers through our products and services. Cannon is a key partner in enabling us to meet this goal," said Gary Oliver, vice president/director, Hi-Rel Strategic Marketing. About Avnet Kent North America-based Avnet Kent is the world's premier interconnect, passive & electromechanical The use of electricity to run moving parts. Disk drives, printers and motors are examples. Electromechanical systems must be designed for the eventual deterioration of moving components that wear over time. The first TVs were electromechanical systems (see video/TV history). (IP&E) specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. distributor and the leader in both interconnect and electromechanical physical value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. . Avnet Kent is a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM), the largest operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ), a Fortune 500 company with fiscal 2001 sales of $12.8 billion (year ended June 30, 2001). One of the world's largest distributors of semiconductors, interconnect, passive and electromechanical components from leading manufacturers, Avnet EM markets, inventories and adds value to these products and provides world-class supply-chain management and engineering design services. Avnet EM serves customers in 63 countries. The company's Web site is located at http://www.avnet.com. |
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