Business Services Industry

Frost and Sullivan Recognizes Getronics with 2006 Market Penetration Leadership Award

Business Wire, Jan 15, 2007

BILLERICA, Mass. -- Getronics, a global leader in workspace management and managed security services, was recently honored with Frost and Sullivan's Award for Market Penetration Leadership in the Managed Security Services market in North America. The award, presented annually by Frost and Sullivan's Best Practice Group, recognizes organizations whose growth has evidenced strong business practices in their respective markets.

"Getronics demonstrated strategic excellence in product innovation, marketing strategy, and sales execution that resulted in the largest gain in market share in the past two to three years," according to Loren Rudd, Frost and Sullivan analyst.

At the core of Getronics' strategy and success are two simple, well-executed premises:

* Security services provide their greatest levels of cost avoidance when embedded with network, desktop, storage, server, and applications monitoring and management

* Security services should be embedded and purchased with existing services from partners that provide bandwidth, hosting, or desktops

"The organic growth in North America for managed security services happened because Getronics' and RedSiren's security professionals rallied around a common vision at the onset of acquisition," said Kevin Roche, executive vice president, Getronics. "Our existing and new clients - as well as our channel partners' customers - are the true beneficiaries, as they are gaining the benefits of what we call security baked-in, not bolted-on."

Getronics offers its Security Services both directly and through its channel partners (Qwest, Time Warner, Comcast, Verizon, and Level 3/Broadwing). These services easily integrate with Getronics' award-winning, cutting-edge solution, the Future-Ready Workspace, a tailored solution for sustaining high-performance user productivity.

To learn more about Frost and Sullivan's Best Practices Awards go to www.awards.frost.com.

About Getronics

With some 24,000 employees in over 25 countries and approximate revenues of USD $3.1 billion, Getronics is one of the world's leading providers of workspace management services.

Getronics designs, deploys, and manages flexible and innovative end-to-end solutions, working together with our partners and clients, in order to optimize and increase the productivity of our clients' mobile knowledge workers.

Getronics headquarters are in Amsterdam, with regional offices in Boston, Madrid, and Singapore. Getronics' shares are traded on Euronext Amsterdam ("GTN"). For further information about Getronics, visit www.getronics.com/us.>