Allied Electronics Hosts Annual EXPO

October 31, 2005 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
Fort Worth, TX — Fort Worth-based catalog distributor Allied Electronics will host its Annual EXPO at the Fort Worth Convention Center from November 1-3.

Allied expects over 500 attendees at this year’s EXPO, including over 200 sales representatives from the company’s 57 branches nationwide and over 100 supplier representatives. This year’s EXPO theme, Turning Point, is meant to motivate Allied’s sales team to continue the company’s growth and success. All EXPO attendees will be given a red wristband with the words “Turning Point” embossed on it.

Several of the EXPO’s training sessions will center around Allied’s primary sales tool – its recently released 2006 Catalog, which features a bold red cover and over 135,000 electronic component and electromechanical products. Allied distributes over 550,000 catalogs annually to engineers and purchasers that look to the company for prototyping due to its broad range of available technology solutions.

Professor and corporate consultant Randy Marshall will serve as the EXPO’s Wednesday evening keynote speaker. Marshall founded and currently leads Speaker’s College, a Dallas based communications training company. Randy has trained corporate managers and sales personnel from New York Life, Kraft Foods, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, American Bankers Association and Prudential Insurance and is the author of Surprised by Serenity.

Author Janet Sue Rush will be the EXPO’s Friday luncheon keynote speaker. Rush co-founded Strawberry Communications at the age of 32, making her one of America's youngest female entrepreneurs. Rush is also the author of The Magic of Telephone Etiquette and Let’s Make Friends and Not Lose Customers.

For more information on Allied Electronics, visit www.alliedelec.com.

About Allied Electronics
Allied Electronics’ headquarters are located in Fort Worth, Texas with 57 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. For more information, visit www.alliedelec.com.

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