Mouser Electronics Wins Two Distinguished Awards from HARTING

June 5, 2013 – Mouser Electronics, Inc., a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, has received two top awards from HARTING, presented at the recent Electronic Distribution Show (EDS) in Las Vegas. The awards, a Distinguished Award for New Customer Growth and a Distinguished Award for New Product Growth , recognize Mouser's significant business growth during 2012. HARTING, a worldwide manufacturing company, supplies Mouser with a variety of top quality electrical and electronic connectors, backplanes and network components.

“We are honored to earn not one, but two, distinctions from a strong partner like HARTING,” said Krystal Jackson, Mouser Vice President of Interconnect. “We could not have grown our business without the assistance of partners like HARTING, and their innovative product offerings. We look forward to continuing a successful business partnership well into the future.”

Mouser earned the Distinguished Award for New Customer Growth for gaining more new customers in 2012 than any other HARTING distributor.  In fact, Mouser grew new customer business by more than 20 percent compared to 2011. Mouser's business growth was also recognized with a Distinguished Award for New Product Sales Growth.  This award honors Mouser for selling more new products in 2012 than any other distributor. On top of Mouser's positive achievements in both new customer and new product sales growth, the awards also reflect Mouser's overall outstanding partnership with HARTING.

“HARTING and Mouser have enjoyed an outstanding partnership for nearly ten years now,” said Jon DeSouza, President and CEO of HARTING, Inc. of North America and HARTING Canada Inc. “Mouser's commitment to invest and promote HARTING's revolutionary and evolutionary technologies has led directly to double digit revenue growth and significant expansion of our customer base in North America.” 

To learn more about HARTING and Mouser, please visit http://www.mouser.com/harting. To learn more about other awards received by Mouser, please visit http://www.mouser.com/recognition.

With its broad product line and unsurpassed customer service, Mouser caters to design engineers and buyers by delivering What's Next in advanced technologies. Mouser offers customers 19 global support locations and the latest, most technologically advanced components for their newest design projects. Mouser Electronics' website is updated daily and searches more than 10 million products to locate over 3 million orderable part numbers available for easy online purchase. Mouser.com also houses an industry-first interactive catalog, data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design information, and engineering tools.

About Mouser
Mouser Electronics, a subsidiary of TTI, Inc., is part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway family of companies. Mouser is an award-winning authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor, focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies to electronic design engineers and buyers. Mouser.com features more than 3 million products online from more than 500 manufacturers. Mouser publishes multiple catalogs per year providing designers with up-to-date data on the components now available for the next generation of electronic devices. Mouser ships globally to over 375,000 customers in 170 countries from its 492,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas. For more information, visit www.mouser.com.

About HARTING
HARTING develops, manufactures and sells electrical and electronic connectors, device terminations, backplanes, network components as well as cable harnesses for networks or machinery, or for power and data application in factories. HARTING products are used in mechanical and plant engineering, broadcast and entertainment, factory automation, power generation and distribution as well as industrial electronics and telecommunication.

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