PGi Collaboration Software Now Available in Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace

ATLANTA, Sept. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PGi (NYSE: PGi), a global leader in collaboration and virtual meetings for over 20 years, and Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest technology distributor and a global leader in IT supply-chain, today announced a managed services agreement that will add PGi's award-winning online meeting solution, iMeet, to the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace.

Under the terms of the agreement, Ingram Micro's U.S.-based, value-added reseller (VAR) community will be able to resell license bundles of PGi software offerings to small and medium business customers also located in the U.S. PGi collaboration solutions can be accessed anywhere users have a phone line or access to the web via PGi's desktop and mobile apps.

"PGi is a channel friendly company with cloud solutions that are well positioned for the Ingram Micro marketplace," said Renee Bergeron, vice president, Ingram Micro Cloud Services. "iMeet enables our channel partners to capitalize on new revenue opportunities by positioning cloud-based conferencing solutions that drive productivity and improve collaboration for their customers."

"We are deeply committed to building upon our industry-leading Partner program and strengthening our distribution of PGi collaboration software with the Ingram Micro relationship," said Ralph Hawkins, senior vice president, PGi Partner Channel. "Because iMeet bundles audio, web and video conferencing into a single cloud-based solution, Ingram Micro's extensive VAR community can present their customers with a simple solution that enhances productivity and collaboration for their customers."

For the past five years, PGi has been recognized as having a "Top 50 Channel Program" by Channel Partners magazine. PGi's turnkey Partner program includes dedicated account teams, an administration portal for online provisioning, a co-branded customer service experience, flexible reporting systems, billing integration and support, partner training, demonstration support and marketing plans.

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About Premiere Global Services, Inc. | PGi
PGi has been a global leader in collaboration and virtual meetings for over 20 years. PGi's cloud-based solutions deliver multi-point, real-time virtual collaboration using video, voice, mobile, web streaming and file sharing technologies. PGi solutions are available via desktops, tablets and mobile devices, helping businesses worldwide be more productive, mobile and environmentally responsible. PGi has a global presence in 25 countries and an established base of over 40,000 enterprise customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100^™. In the last five years, PGi has hosted nearly one billion people from 137 countries in over 200 million virtual meetings. For more information, visit PGi at www.pgi.com.

About Ingram Micro Inc.

Ingram Micro is the world's largest wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and logistics solutions. As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics and mobile solutions, technical support, financial services and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving approximately 160 countries on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.

Statements made in this press release, other than those concerning historical information, should be considered forward-looking and subject to various risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made based on management's current expectations or beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. A variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in Premiere Global Services, Inc.'s forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following factors: competitive pressures, including pricing pressures; technological changes and the development of alternatives to our services; market acceptance of our cloud-based, virtual meeting solutions, including our iMeet^® and GlobalMeet^® solutions; our ability to attract new customers and to retain and further penetrate our existing customers; our ability to establish and maintain strategic reseller relationships; risks associated with challenging global economic conditions; price increases from our telecommunications service providers; service interruptions and network downtime; technological obsolescence and our ability to upgrade our equipment or increase our network capacity; concerns regarding the security and privacy of our customer's confidential information; future write-downs of goodwill or other intangible assets; greater than anticipated tax and regulatory liabilities; restructuring and cost reduction initiatives and the market reaction thereto; our level of indebtedness; risks associated with acquisitions and divestitures; indemnification claims from the sale of our PGiSend business; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights, including possible adverse results of litigation or infringement claims; regulatory or legislative changes, including further government regulations applicable to traditional telecommunications service providers and data privacy; risks associated with international operations and market expansion, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; and other factors described from time to time in our press releases, reports and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or a person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. We do not undertake any obligation to update or to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking statements contained in this press release to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release or the date of the statement, if a different date, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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