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Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas Signs Distribution Agreement with Portescap-Danaher Motion

Business Wire, June 22, 2006

PHOENIX -- Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, the largest operating group of Avnet Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has signed a distribution agreement with Portescap-Danaher Motion. Avnet will distribute Portescap DC motors, AC motors, digital linear actuators and stepper motors in North America.

"We expect customers will find Avnet's value-add capabilities advantageous," said Jack Barrett, vice president of North American sales and customer support for Portescap. "Avnet provides Portescap with a unique market entry point. They are certainly a well-established and valued vendor to a large and diverse customer base; Portescap offers Avnet and its customers the broadest possible product family in the small or miniature motor market. We expect their enthusiasm will complement our upcoming new product introductions."

"With the addition of Portescap products we are expanding our existing interconnect, passive and electromechanical (IP&E) product lines to give our customers one of the broadest miniature motor product offerings in the industry," said Pat Wastal, senior vice president of IP&E for Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. "Combining the technical and product expertise of Portescap with mechanical, physical, and electrical modification capabilities and logistics from Avnet enables us to offer flexible and high-quality motor solutions that are of real benefit to end customers."

"Avnet Electronics Marketing offers many different options that cater to the dynamic needs of our motor customers and Portescap's portfolio is among the best," added Phil Gallagher, president of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. "Continuing to offer the leading-edge suppliers and solutions to our customers in the IP&E technology arena has always been a top priority, and one that we plan to continue building upon in the future."

About Danaher Corp.

Danaher Corp. is a leading manufacturer of professional instrumentation, industrial technologies, and tools and components. For more information, please visit www.danaher.com.

About Avnet Electronics Marketing

Avnet Electronics Marketing is the largest operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc., a Fortune 500 company. Avnet Electronics Marketing serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in 68 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.

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 www.avnet.com/.>