Avnet Inc. to Present at the Raymond James Institutional Investors Conference and the Morgan Stanley Semiconductor & Systems Conference

Business Wire, Feb 16, 2006

PHOENIX -- Avnet Inc. (NYSE:AVT) today announced Avnet will be presenting at several technology conferences in the next 30 days.

Ray Sadowski, Avnet's chief financial officer, will be presenting at the Raymond James Institutional Investors Conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Fla., on March 8 at 11 a.m. Eastern time.

Roy Vallee, Avnet's chairman and chief executive officer, will be presenting at the Morgan Stanley Semiconductor & Systems Conference to be held at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort and Spa in Dana Point, Calif., on March 8 at 11:15 a.m. Pacific time.

As previously announced, Vallee will also be presenting at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium to be held at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on Feb. 28 at 9:20 a.m. Mountain time.

All of these Avnet presentations will be broadcast live over the Internet at www.ir.avnet.com. Interested parties should log on to the Web site 15 minutes prior to the presentation time to register for the event and download any necessary software.

About Avnet

Avnet enables success from the center of the technology industry, providing cost-effective services and solutions vital to a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and 300 suppliers. The company markets, distributes and adds value to a wide variety of electronic components, enterprise computer products and embedded subsystems. Through its premier market position, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities that help its trading partners accelerate growth and realize cost efficiencies. For fiscal year ended, July 2, 2005, Avnet and the recently acquired Memec (closed July 5, 2005) generated combined revenue in excess of $13 billion in the past year through sales in approximately 70 countries.

Visit Avnet's Investor Relations Web site at www.ir.avnet.com or contact us at investorrelations@avnet.com.