Future Electronics and Vicor sign global distribution agreement

Future Electronics and Vicor sign global distribution agreement

Montreal, Canada, August 1st, 2011 – Future Electronics, a world class leader and innovator in the distribution and marketing of electronic components is pleased to announce that they have signed a global distribution agreement with Vicor Corporation. This agreement allows Future Electronics to leverage their experience and resources to launch Vicor’s product portfolio to a global market and a diverse customer base. In choosing Future Electronics as their only global distribution partner, Vicor noted the strength of Future Electronics’ demand creation programs and the ability to track business offshore, enabling greater control of design and production processes.

Under the terms of the agreement, Future Electronics will now begin a phased rollout of Vicor products starting with their Intermediate Bus Converters worldwide (except Japan), along with V•I Chips and Picor for the Americas. EMEA and Asia availability will follow October 1st with Custom Bricks forthcoming in Q4.

“We are very pleased to be launching the Vicor franchise,” said Bruce Jones, Vice-President, Worldwide Product Marketing for Future Electronics. “This line has had a tremendous amount of interest from our sales and engineering teams and most importantly, our customers. We see a very positive outlook for the Future/Vicor partnership.”

“As a worldwide leader in the distribution industry Future has long distinguished itself as an innovative and an extremely focused organization,” said Rich Begen, Vice-President, Global Distribution for Vicor Corporation. “Combining Future’s leading edge selling and marketing acumen with Vicor’s technological prowess in the power electronics industry will produce a formidable partnership for a go-to-market strategy aimed at expanding market reach and sales growth.”

About Future Electronics

Future Electronics is a global leader in electronics distribution, ranking 3rd in component sales worldwide. Founded in 1968, the company has established itself as one of the most innovative organizations in the industry today, with 5,000 employees in 169 offices in 42 countries around the world. Future Electronics is globally integrated, with one worldwide IT infrastructure providing real-time inventory availability and access, while enabling full integration of its operations, sales and marketing worldwide. Offering the highest level of service, the most advanced engineering capabilities and technical solutions through all stages of the design-production cycle, and the largest available-to-sell inventory in the world, Future’s mission is always to Delight the Customer®.

For more information, visit www.FutureElectronics.com.

About Vicor Corporation

Vicor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets modular power components, power management and complete power systems based upon a portfolio of patented technologies. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Vicor sells its products primarily to customers in the higher performance, higher power segments of the power systems market, including aerospace and defense electronics, enterprise and high performance computing, industrial equipment and automation, telecommunications and network infrastructure, and vehicles and transportation markets.

For more information, visit www.vicorpower.com.

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