Newark Receives Three Supplier Awards From Lumex at EDS 2011

CHICAGO, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading electronics distributor Newark, a business of global Premier Farnell, announced today it was presented with nine sales and marketing achievement awards from its suppliers during the annual Electronic Distribution Show (EDS), held May 23-26 in Las Vegas.

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Global optoelectronics leader Lumex presented the Newark team with three awards: Distributor of the Year, Distributor Annual Growth and Distributor Overall Growth. In addition Newark received:

• 2 Million Dollar Club award from NTE in recognition of outstanding sales growth
• Premier Distributor award from Alpha Wire for sales excellence
• Distributor of the Year award from Fair-Rite.
• Catalog Distributor of the Year award from Amphenol
• President Elite award from Ohmite
• Gold Award from Keystone Electronics

"We think of these as partnership awards, rather than supplier awards," comments Jim Seifert, VP Supplier Management, Newark. "The great results that were achieved came about through close collaboration between our respective marketing, sales and product teams."

Newark presented its own 3M Rep of the Year award to Mark Motsinger from Knoxville, TN at EDS.

About Newark/element14

Newark and its innovative online element14 engineering community, are both businesses of the global Premier Farnell Group (LSE:pfl), a leading multi-channel, high-service electronics distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals across the Americas. Offering components and test equipment from 500+ top manufacturers, Newark is known for offering the broadest selection. Customers do business with Newark through multiple sales channels: contact centers, a local branch network, field sales force and websites at www.newark.com  or www.element14.com

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