August 20, 2003 - Avnet Applied Computing Wins the 2003 Certificate of Award for Partnership From EIZO Nanao Corporation

Eindhoven -- Avnet Applied Computing Ltd, UK has received The 2003 EIZO Certificate of Award for Partnership from EIZO Nanao Corporation. Yoshitaka Jitsumori, President & CEO of EIZO Nanao Corporation, presented the award to Rob Musson, Product Director and Matthew Gower, Managing Director, Avnet Applied Computing Ltd, at the recent EIZO Distributors' Meeting in Nice, France.

EIZO, one of the world's largest manufacturers of flat panels, presents an award each year to one of its distributors. The reasons why Avnet Applied Computing received the award was due to its worthy contribution to develop the other vertical markets requiring high end products.

"This award is In recognition of their excellence partnership with well focused action in accordance with EIZO's busines direction", said Jitsumori-san. "This is probably one of the most important awards, it shows a grasp of what EIZO are asking of their partners and that the winners of the award have worked hard to achieve this".

Matthew Gower was delighted to receive this award: "It is a great honour to be recognised for our partnership at this point in the history of the display market. There has been a huge amount of change in this sector over the last year and the award is a real endorsement of the hard work put in by the Avnet Applied Computing UK team. It is a positive confirmation of the close ties that exist between us and EIZO.

About EIZO

Eizo Nanao Corporation is a leading global manufacturer of high-end visual display products with a wide range of LCD, CRT, and PDP monitors, and Windows-Based Terminals (thin clients). The image quality, long-term reliability, and innovative features of EIZO monitors make them the product of choice in many financial trading rooms, hospitals, back offices, and design studios throughout the world. EIZO is based in Japan and represented in over thirty countries by a network of exclusive distributors.

About Avnet Applied Computing

Distribution specialist Avnet Applied Computing has structured itself to serve original equipment manufacturers and system builders that use computing technologies such as CPUs, mass storage, displays, embedded computing boards, commercial motherboards, memory modules, networking and software products. Its related services include engineering assistance, supply-chain management, financing, physical distribution and integration of end products. Avnet Applied Computing, an operating group of technology marketing, distribution and services provider Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), has operations in North America, Europe and Asia. Its website is located at www.aac.avnet.com/