Allied Electronics Chooses ByteManagers for Strategic Corporate Content and Data Services

Market Wire, April, 2007

ByteManagers, a leading global professional services firm providing content strategy and data management services across all aspects of the enterprise, today announced that the company has entered into a multi-year consulting and services agreement with Allied Electronics, a subsidiary of Electrocomponents plc (LSE: ECM), the world's leading catalog component distributor.

The agreement calls for ByteManagers to be a fully integrated business partner to help Allied aggressively market their Internet and print catalogs through the use of ByteManager's Managed Service Content Solutions™ (MSCS) approach. ByteManagers' MSCS will give Allied customers access to high quality, attribute-rich, current product information enabling them to make more informed purchasing decisions from over one million of Allied's products.

"We are very pleased to see our relationship with Allied Electronics develop and grow," said Sanjay Agarwal, ByteManagers president and CEO. "This long-term relationship will safeguard time-sensitive deliverables and overall quality measures, while providing a steady diet of production output for a variety of Allied's business needs."

"Allied has identified product content as a strategic corporate asset that will help the business meet and exceed its revenue objectives and market presence," said Rob Birse, vice president of marketing at Allied Electronics. "With a Managed Service arrangement from ByteManagers, Allied will enjoy secured access to ByteManagers' content strategy experts who are already rooted in Allied's content nuances and will be dedicated to Allied's content lifecycle needs."

About ByteManagers Managed Service Content Solutions

ByteManagers' Managed Service Content Solutions program helps clients build and enhance existing data with a focus on maintaining those enhancements over an extended period of time. The Managed Service Solution combines a strategic and consultative approach to project selection and scoping with professionals trained in the specific needs of a client organization. MSCS is ideal for clients experiencing:

--  Challenges integrating interdepartmental content
--  A need for improved and consistent content aggregation, cleansing, and
    maintenance processes
--  Sporadic and intermittent content production needs associated to new
    product and marketing initiatives
--  Loss of market share due to better competitor data solutions.
    

About Allied Electronics

Allied Electronics' headquarters are located in Fort Worth, Texas with 55 sales branches across the United States and Canada. Allied is a subsidiary of Electrocomponents plc (LSE: ECM), the world-leading catalog component distributor. Electrocomponents has operations in six continents and headquarters in Oxford, England.

About ByteManagers, Inc.

Headquartered in Chicago, IL-USA, ByteManagers is a global professional services firm providing content strategy and data management services across all aspects of the enterprise. Our professionals help global organizations source, cleanse, build, structure and syndicate content and data to support corporate information infrastructure, catalogs, procurement applications, eCommerce, CRM, and ERP needs.

ByteManagers is driving new processes and providing innovative services for those faced with the monumental task of managing, cleaning, protecting, and updating their mission-critical data. For more information please call (312) 243-1140 or visit www.bytemanagers.com .

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