Coca-Cola FEMSA to Roll Out Symbol Rugged Mobile Computers for Next-Generation Route Accounting System.

Business & High-Tech Editors

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2002

Leading Bottler, Distributor in Mexico and Argentina to

Provide Pre-Sales Workforce with Innovative Technology to

Maximize Productivity

Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL) today announced that Coca-Cola FEMSA, a leading bottler and distributor in Mexico and Argentina, has selected an advanced mobile workforce solution from Symbol to maximize worker productivity, enhance customer service and provide competitive advantage.

In a contract valued at more than $3 million Coca-Cola FEMSA will deploy the Symbol PDT 8100 handheld computer to its pre-sales mobile workforce for its route accounting process in a rollout that will continue through 2003. The system combines the PDT 8100, data-communication cradles and printers for the pre-sales operations; the rugged design withstands extreme environment, weather and tough on-the-road handling. Future growth will include wireless wide area network communications for "anywhere, anytime" information and laser bar code scanning. The application software was developed by Hasar Sistemas of Argentina specifically for the Coca-Cola FEMSA requirements to support today's and future tasks.

The device will be central to daily Coca-Cola FEMSA operations for face-to-face customer decisions involving inventory and new products. It will also minimize time-consuming and error-prone paperwork.

Symbol mobile workforce solutions, centered on a complete product family that includes versatile handheld computers such as the PDT 8100 and PDT 8000, are increasingly becoming the standard for field service workers. Coca-Cola FEMSA is one of several major customers announcing significant deployments of Symbol mobile workforce solutions.

"We selected Symbol after an exhaustive search because the system met and exceeded our present-day as well as our near-term future requirements," said Hector Calva, Manager of Computing Services and Support for Sales and Distribution, Coca-Cola FEMSA.

"The Coca-Cola FEMSA installation is another important route accounting win for Symbol. We believe Symbol has the right mix of competitively advantageous products for this promising market based on our core technologies of rugged mobile computing, wireless WLAN and WWAN communications and laser bar code scanning," said Barry Issberner, Vice President, Logistics Markets, Symbol Technologies.

Symbol Technologies, Inc., is a global leader in mobile data transaction systems, providing innovative customer solutions based on wireless local area networking for data and voice, application-specific mobile computing and bar code data capture. Symbol's wireless information appliances connect the physical world of people on the move, packages, paper and shipping pallets, to information systems and the Internet. Today, some 10 million Symbol bar code scanners, mobile computers and wireless LANs are utilized worldwide in markets ranging from retailing to transportation and distribution logistics, manufacturing, parcel and postal delivery, government, healthcare and education. Symbol's systems and products are used to increase productivity from the factory floor to the retail store, to the enterprise and out to the home. Information about Symbol is available at www.symbol.com and 1-800-722-6234 or 631-738-2400.