Digi-Key and LEDIL Announce Distribution Agreement

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota and SALO, Finland - October 4, 2007 — Digi-Key Corporation and LEDIL, a supplier of some of the world’s most versatile and innovative semiconductor optical solutions, announced today the signing of a worldwide distribution agreement.

LEDIL designs and manufactures standard and customer-specific optical elements, opto-electronic modules and complete optical products. LEDIL offers standard plastic lens solutions for most power LEDs, giving a variety of illumination patterns, such as spot, medium, wide, oval or side-emitting types of lenses. Lens size varies from micro lenses being a few millimeters to large collimators.

One of the world’s fastest growing distributors of electronic components, Digi-Key Corporation ships product to more than 140 countries from its single location in Thief River Falls, Minn. Digi-Key’s commitment to product selection and its unparalleled commitment to stock 100 percent of the hundreds of thousands of products featured in its print catalog enables Digi-Key to supply the broadest range of electronic components to customers from all sectors of the industry.

LEDIL products stocked by Digi-Key are featured in its print and online catalogs and are available for purchase directly from Digi-Key.

“We are very excited about this new partnership with LEDIL,” said Digi-Key President Mark Larson. “LEDIL’s well-engineered semiconductor optical solutions are a great addition to our product offering, and I am certain these products will be of considerable interest to the thousands of design engineers we serve every day.”

“LEDIL feels honored to be part of Digi-Key’s amazing achievements and worldwide recognition as an electronic components distributor, as well as to work together in bringing the most innovative and high quality optic products to everyone,” said LEDIL’s Managing Director Tomi Kuntze.

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 16 consecutive years from among the nation’s more than 200 distributors (EE Times Distribution Study/ May 2007). Offering more than a million products from over 350 quality name-brand manufacturers, Digi-Key’s commitment to inventory is unparalleled. Access to the company’s broad product offering is available 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week at Digi-Key’s top-rated Web site, www.digikey.com.

About LEDIL

LEDIL delivers standard, off-the-shelf and customer-specific optical elements, modules and systems. We always try to integrate the optical parts as well as possible to the mechanical construction of the main product. We work in close cooperation with the world’s leading LED manufacturers. At LEDIL, we normally use thermoplastics as the main raw material in our designs. From the beginning, we make our design in cooperation with specialized toolmakers. For more information, visit www.ledil.fi.

SOURCE: Digi-Key Corporation
10/04/2007