Digi-Key Corporation Receives Elektronik Distributor of the Year Category Awards

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota - December 18, 2008 — Digi-Key Corporation was recently named Distributor of the Year in the Optoelectronics Product Portfolio category by Elektronik, a leading magazine for design engineers and technical management within the German electronics market. The awards were presented during electronica 2008 November 11-14 in Munich.

These Distributor of the Year awards were selected by readers of Elektronik and its publishing company's website, elektroniknet.de. Product segments evaluated in the survey included active components, passive components, electromechanics, and optoelectronics/displays. For each segment, there were five criteria for the assessment defined including, product portfolio, product availability, delivery services, technical competence/support, and total impression. Elektronik readers participating in this year's survey totaled 1,683.

"We are very happy to have received these awards," said Steven Tsukichi, Digi-Key vice president of strategic operations and CMO. "Digi-Key's goal is to offer our European customers best in class customer service with an emphasis on product choice and availability. These awards are testament that our marketing strategies are working and that German design engineers are indeed discovering Digi-Key's unique value proposition."

Digi-Key's German catalog and website, www.digikey.de, were launched in 2004. Europe currently represents one of Digi-Key's strongest areas of growth. Committed to stocking all of the products in its 2,200 page print catalog, Digi-Key has one of the industry's most expansive product offerings. All orders are shipped from Digi-Key's Thief River Falls, Minn., USA facility via UPS Express Air for delivery to European customers in one to three days. With 2,000 employees, Digi-Key ranks as the fifth largest distributor of electronic components in North America and the ninth largest distributor worldwide.

About Digi-Key Corporation

One of the world's fastest growing distributors of electronic components, Digi-Key has earned its reputation as an industry leader through its total commitment to service and performance. As a full-service provider of both prototype/design and production quantities of electronic components, Digi-Key has been ranked #1 for Overall Performance for 17 consecutive years from among the nation's more than 200 distributors (EE Times Distribution Study/ August 2008). Offering more than a million products from nearly 400 quality name-brand manufacturers Digi-Key's commitment to inventory is unparalleled. Access to the company's broad product offering is available 24/7 at Digi-Key's top-rated Web site, www.digikey.com.

SOURCE: Digi-Key Corporation
12/18/2008