Avnet Helps You Find the Electronics Component You Want

Business Wire, April 21, 2008

PHOENIX -- Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has enhanced its Web site with a powerful new electronic component part search capability.

Web site users can search Avnet's industry leading catalog of 2.6 million parts - everything from amplifiers to switches and transducers - to meet individual and specific design/fulfillment requirements. What they get is more: search results bring back a host of related content including part data; events and seminars; product news; special offers on that part; content from Avnet's Design Resource Center - all with information related to that search. Users can also do side-by-side part comparisons on results from a given search.

Within a given component search, results display the technical part attributes and alternate products available. Searches can further be narrowed to:

* in stock parts only

* RoHS compliant parts

* parts sold in prototype quantities

* top selling parts

"Avnet's Web site can now help engineers and purchasers pick the optimal parts by guiding them through the part selection process, and helping them make well-informed component selection choices. As a global, broadline distributor, we have the visibility on what parts the electronics industry is using in high volume - and our customers have been asking for that," said Beth Ely, senior vice president and director of new channel development for Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. "No one wants to design in a part only to find it can't be purchased on a large-scale once that design is ready for production."

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 more than 70 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

Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and technology services and solutions with more than 300 locations serving more than 70 countries worldwide. The company markets, distributes and optimizes the supply-chain and provides design-chain services for the products of the world's leading electronic component suppliers, enterprise computer manufacturers and embedded subsystem providers. Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities, such as maximizing inventory efficiency, managing logistics, assembling products and providing engineering design assistance for its 100,000 customers, accelerating their growth through cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007, Avnet generated revenue of $15.68 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.