January 11, 2007 - Infineon Technologies Names EBV Elektronik "Distributor of the Year 2006"

Infineon Technologies AG announced that pan-European semiconductor distribution specialist EBV Elektronik, an Avnet Company (NYSE:AVT),  has received the “Infineon European Distributor of the Year Award 2006” for the best demand creation result in Infineon’s European distribution network.
 
"We honoured EBV Elektronik as Infineon’s strongest partner in demand creation with the award of the year 2006. Like in the past years EBV Elektronik, with its experienced sales people, strongly supported us to further increase our market share in all European countries. Due to the long partnership EBV Elektronik and Infineon Technologies maintain today an excellent and deep rooted co-operation enabling superior customer support,” said P. Jeutter, Vice President Distribution Sales EMEA of Infineon Technologies.
 
"We are very proud to be Infineon's Best Performing European Distributor in the area of demand creation," said S. Puljarevic, President of EBV Elektronik. “We have continued leveraging Infineon's excellent product portfolio to address our customer's technological needs.  Our strong technical sales force and our FAE team have helped our customers reduce their time to market and improve their performance, which, in turn, led EBV and Infineon to strengthen their position in the European market," Puljarevic concludes.

About EBV Elektronik
EBV Elektronik, an Avnet (NYSE:AVT) company, was founded in 1969 and is the leading specialist in European semiconductor distribution. EBV maintains its successful strategy of personal commitment to customers and excellent services. 240 Technical Sales Specialists provide a strong focus on a selected group of long-term manufacturing partners. 110 continuously trained Application Specialists offer extensive application know-how and design expertise. Warehouse operations, complete logistics solutions and value-added services such as programming, taping & reeling and laser marking are fulfilled by Avnet Logistics, EBV’s logistical backbone and Europe’s largest service centre. EBV operates from 55 offices in 26 countries throughout EMEA (Europe - Middle East - Africa).
More information about EBV Elektronik under www.ebv.com

Editor Contact EBV Elektronik:
Bernd Schlemmer
Director Communications
Im Technologiepark 2-8
85586 Poing
bernd.schlemmer@ebv.com