Avnet : MSC Technologies named Fujitsu’s “Best Mainboard Distributor of the Year” for third consecutive year

Stutensee, Germany - MSC Technologies, a business group of Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA, a business region of Avnet Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has received the award "Best Mainboard Distributor 2013" from Fujitsu. This award was presented to MSC Technologies at the 2014 electronica trade fair in Munich, Germany. With a long-established partnership in the field of mainboards, this year marks the third consecutive year that MSC Technologies has received this award from Fujitsu.

The joint success of both companies is based on a long-standing cooperation and common strategy. MSC Technologies offers in-depth technological expertise, comprehensive design-in support and extensive experience in the development and production of systems. Furthermore, Fujitsu's products can be complemented with additional components such as CPUs, RAMs, hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs), expansion cards, cables, etc.

Stefan Schutz, Product Marketing Specialist MSC Technologies, said: "We benefit from the prompt technical support of the manufacturer. Fujitsu develops and manufactures, as we also do, in Germany and thus extensive knowledge is readily available and easily accessible. All technical facilities such as the test and inspection center are available to our customers and are offered as a service. Furthermore, we undertake customer visits as well as tours of production facilities together. Technical and sales trainings by the manufacturer take place on a regular basis."

Peter Hoser, Director OEM Sales Systemboard Fujitsu, said: "We are convinced about MSC Technologies' technological expertise and design-in support, together with their extensive experience in the development and production of industrial systems. By complementing our mainboards with additional components, MSC is even able to deliver complete systems. The embedded-solutions-driven sales team focuses, among other things, on a broad customer base in the industrial and medical industries. In addition, MSC Technologies and Avnet provide a pan-European sales structure and logistics as well as inventory holding and logistics concepts for customers."

MSC Technologies
MSC Technologies, a business unit of Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA, a business region ofAvnetInc. (NYSE:AVT)specialises in intelligent embedded and display solutions for a range of different industrial applications. MSC Technologies, based in Stutensee, Germany, represents well-known manufacturers of TFT, touch and passive displays and offers customer-specific display solutions based on in-house technologies. In the embedded sector, MSC Technologies has many years of development and production expertise that ranges from COM Express and Qseven modules through to complete systems. It also provides wireless, storage and lighting solutions. With its consulting competence and full-service offering, MSC Technologies secures a competitive advantage for its customers with premium-quality solutions and long-term availability. The solution provider's business focuses on Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Eastern Europe.

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