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Morris has doubled Arrow ECS' revenue to $5 billion and is among the few female senior executives within Fortune 200 companies

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS), a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW), today announced that its president, M. Catherine Morris, was named one of the most powerful women in the technology industry by CMP Channel's VARBusiness Magazine, the leading source of channel intelligence and strategic insight for information technology (IT) solution providers.

"I am honored to receive this recognition," said Morris. "I congratulate each of the women who also have been acknowledged and thank VARBusiness for saluting the outstanding contributions that women are making in the IT industry."

Morris serves as president of Arrow ECS and is responsible for all operational and merger and acquisition activities for the business. She also is responsible for Arrow ECS' strategic direction, business development and financial performance. Morris shares the office of the president for the ECS business with Kevin Gilroy and serves as senior vice president on Arrow's executive committee.

With more than 18 years of experience in the computer products and electronics components distribution business, Morris has had a significant role in Arrow's successful acquisition strategy including the transformation of the ECS business. Arrow ECS has doubled in size to become a $5 billion business and expanded its geographic reach and line card. Drawing from her background in finance, Morris has instilled within Arrow ECS a focus on helping partners grow faster than the market and providing partners with the ability to reduce their infrastructure costs. Arrow ECS significantly outperformed the market by growing revenue 22 percent year over year and delivered its 14th consecutive quarter of sales growth in its second quarter of 2007. Arrow ECS also has recently been named the "most important" value- added distributor by both VARBusiness 500 and CRN Fast Growth 100 companies. This is the second consecutive year that Arrow ECS has received these distinctions.

The second annual VARBusiness Power 50 Women of the Channel awards honor the female executives making the biggest impact in the IT industry. The list celebrates outstanding female leaders and role models for other women in the traditionally male-dominated IT industry.

"Successful channel partner programs are made so through the dedication of the channel executives who oversee them. The CMP Channel is proud to honor those women whose commitment to the channel has improved the profitability of their solution provider partners," said Robert C. DeMarzo, vice president and editorial director, CMP Channel.

The Power 50 Women of the Channel were chosen by CMP Channel editors who combed through a large number of candidates in order to identify the most outstanding and influential female channel executives.

About VARBusiness (http://www.varbusiness.com/)

For the past 20 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the commercial and public sector (or government) Solution Provider community. The VARBusiness integrated platform of media opportunities provides strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness offerings lead vendors and distributors to unprecedented access to the most powerful strategic Solution Providers in the market. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design.

About CMP Channel (http://www.cmpchannelgroup.com/)

CMP Channel is the one stop shop customers turn to in order to meet their global sales channel objectives from access to execution. Through use of its family of channel solutions which include CRN and VARBusiness, the ChannelWeb network, the Group's XChange worldwide face-to-face conferences and the Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED), vendors are able to accelerate sales through the channel. CMP Channel provides a worldwide answer to advertising, branding and marketing services, lead generation, market intelligence, branded and custom events, education of solution providers and best practices for vendors.

About CMP Technology (http://www.cmp.com/)

CMP Technology is a marketing-solutions company serving the technology industry. Through its market-leading portfolio of trusted information brands, CMP has earned the confidence of more technology professionals than any other media company. As a result, CMP is the premier provider of access, insight and actionable programs designed to connect sellers and buyers in ways that yield superior return on investment. CMP Technology is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion.

ABOUT ARROW ENTERPRISE COMPUTING SOLUTIONS

Arrow ECS, a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW), provides enterprise and midrange computing products, services and solutions to value-added resellers, system integrators, and independent software vendors. Based in Englewood, Colo., Arrow ECS connects its customers to the world's foremost technology suppliers, including HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, EMC, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, and other leading storage networking, software, and security suppliers. Arrow ECS reported $2.5 billion in worldwide computer products sales in 2006. Visit us at http://www.arrowecs.com/.

First Call Analyst:
FCMN Contact: dsmall@arrow.com

Source: Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions

CONTACT: Dawn Small, Communications Manager of Arrow Enterprise
Computing Solutions, +1-303-824-4188, dsmall@arrow.com; or Dan Neel of CMP
Channel, +1-516-562-7236, dneel@cmp.com

Web site:

http://www.arrowecs.com/
http://www.varbusiness.com/
http://www.cmpchannelgroup.com/
http://www.cmp.com/
http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/

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