Avnet Electronics Marketing and Fox Celebrate 20-Year Milestone

The Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), and Fox Electronics are celebrating their 20-year alliance.

The year was 1989. George H.W. Bush became the 41^st president of the United States; a gallon of gas cost just 97 cents; Indiana Jones was starting his last crusade; and Avnet began providing supply chain services and support for Fox’s highly precise, highly reliable frequency control products in the Americas.

More than two decades later, Avnet and Fox still provide the electronics industry with one of the industry's largest ranges of frequency control products – including quartz crystals, clock oscillators, temperature compensated crystal oscillators, voltage controlled crystal oscillators, real time clock modules and crystal filters. Fox products can be found in numerous wireless communications equipment and telecommunications devices, instrumentation and aerospace applications.

"For over twenty years, Avnet and Fox have been helping engineers meet their toughest design needs by providing one of the world’s broadest lines of frequency control products,” said Ed Smith, president of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. "Together we offer the support capabilities, off-the-shelf and custom products our customers need to help them shorten their design time and speed their time to market – both today and into the future.”

"Since day one we have treasured our relationship with Avnet,” said E.L. Fox, Jr., president of Fox Electronics. "Fox and Avnet have a very special bond that continues to grow and we look forward to the next 20 years with our number one sales partner.”

For more information about Avnet and Fox Electronics products, please visit www.em.avnet.com/fox.

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About Avnet Electronics Marketing

Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. that serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in more than 70 countries, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain services. The group's Web site is located at www.em.avnet.com. Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology in the world. Avnet accelerates its partners’ success by connecting the world’s leading technology suppliers with a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 27, 2009, Avnet generated revenue of $16.23 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.