Avnet Electronics Marketing Updates Design Resource Center

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--One year since its launch, Avnet Electronics Marketing, a division of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), has enhanced its Design Resource Center (DRC) Web site http://em.avnet.com/drc, to facilitate ease of use. The Web site gives design engineers direct access to more than 150 offerings – searchable by manufacturer, technology or product.

Avnet’s DRC offers design engineers access to electronic technologies and products, including reference designs, product briefs, user and program guides, schematics and application notes. The site also provides exclusive access to select evaluation and development kits created by Avnet design engineers and supplier partners.

Created with engineers in mind, customers will see tangible benefits associated with using the DRC. “The DRC’s enhanced search engine speeds the design process by offering an array of practical solutions – resulting in quicker access to the information and design resources they are looking for,” said Marc Gsand, vice president of marketing for Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. “Avnet’s DRC is truly a design engineers’ one-stop shop when it comes to getting the design and product information they need.”

About Avnet Electronics Marketing

Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a Fortune 500 company. Avnet Electronics Marketing serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in 73 countries, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain services. The group's Web site is located at http://www.em.avnet.com.

About Avnet

With more than 250 locations serving customers in 73 countries worldwide, Avnet markets, distributes and adds value to the products of the world’s leading electronic component suppliers, enterprise computer manufacturers and embedded subsystem providers. Additionally, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of service capabilities, such as supply-chain optimization, logistics solutions, product assembly, device programming, computer system integration and engineering design assistance. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007, Avnet generated revenue of $15.68 billion. Visit www.avnet.com/.