PHOENIX—March 7, 2012 — Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announced today a distribution agreement with Epson Electronics America, Inc. (EEA). This agreement makes EEA quartz-based products available to Avnet’s customers in the Americas. To find out more, visit Avnet’s website.
Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas provides design engineers with a broad spectrum of technology solutions that fit today’s design engineer’s needs. As the market leader in both the crystal and quartz oscillator markets, EEA offers Avnet’s customers a wide variety of leading products in the crystal, oscillator, real-time clock and sensing areas. EEA has the broadest timing portfolio in the market today which includes low-cost tuning forks, mid-level AT Cut MHz crystals and oscillators, high-end SAW oscillators, RTCs, VCXOs and TCXOs.
“Epson Electronics America, Inc. (EEA) is excited to engage with a leader in design support and logistics such as Avnet,” said Koji Abe, president and chief executive officer of EEA. “We are certain that Avnet’s expertise and strong customer relationships will greatly benefit both companies, as well as our mutual customers. By integrating Avnet’s exceptional value added services and solutions with Epson’s broad product offering, commercial, industrial, networking, storage and telecom equipment providers can meet all of their timing needs with superior products, support, quality and reliability.”
“Epson is the clear leader when it comes to providing timing alternatives,” said Alex Iuorio, senior vice president, supplier marketing, Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. “For over 90 years, Avnet’s customers have relied on our ability to not only offer supply-chain expertise, but also provide reliable design-chain and technical advice as well. It is both the strength of our offering and the strength of our team that enables Avnet to continuously create new relationships with suppliers that offer the technology our customers need today to innovate for tomorrow.”
To find out more, or to purchase Epson products, visit the Avnet Electronics Marketing website.
