Adds 15 new vendors to its product line

Fort Worth, Texas, 12 June 2015 - Allied Electronics, a trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), announced today that it has added 15 new vendors to its already-strong line of electronic components. The new additions cover semiconductors, platforms and development tools, display vendors, optoelectronics, crystals and oscillators, and more.

"We are aggressively expanding our product line in this area," said Allied Product Director Dan Radic, "and are focused on providing a one-stop shopping experience for our customers. The addition of these new lines gives our customers more choices, more possibilities, and more solutions."

New vendors in the Allied portfolio include:

Optoelectronics
Lumileds

Display vendors
Newhaven Display

Platform and development tools
Adafruit
Arduino
MikroElektronica

Semiconductors
Comchip
Diodes Inc.

Crystals and oscillators
 Aker
Crystek Crystals Corp.
Ecliptek Corporation
Fox Electronics
Micro Crystal
Mercury
Raltron
Qantek

"This is just the first step in building and strengthening this important product line," said Radic. "We're hard at work right now adding even more important suppliers and important labels to our portfolio."

To review the entirety of Allied's product offerings, please visit thinkallied.com.

About Allied Electronics
Allied Electronics is a high service level, authorised distributor of industrial automation products, electronic components, and electromechanical products with 47 sales offices serving the United States, Mexico, and Canada. With more than three million parts online and more than 120,000 products featured in the Allied Catalog, engineers and purchasers often look to Allied for a broad range of product solutions from more than 300 world-class suppliers. Allied Electronics and RS Components are trading brands of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers headquartered in Oxford, England.

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