IS-Rayfast Selected UK & Ireland Specialist Distributor of the Year 2007

London - April 2, 2008 - Tyco Electronics has selected IS-Rayfast as its UK & Ireland Specialist Distributor of the Year 2007. The award honours the distributor's class-leading increase in the value of sales of Tyco Electronics products over the last year. Tyco Electronics Account Manager Paul Godden commented: "We are very glad to be able to reward IS-Rayfast for their continued excellence in promoting Tyco Electronics." He added: "IS-Rayfast offers outstanding technical solutions, quick turn-around times thanks to good inventory holding and provides very good design-in work to support the Tyco Electronics Raychem brand."

James Leonard, Sales Director of IS-Rayfast, commented: "We are very happy to have won this award for the second year running. The award recognises our continued commitment to providing superior technical support to our customers and our excellent stock of products. I want to congratulate my superb team of people without whom this success wouldn't have been possible.I also want to thank our good contacts at Tyco Electronics for supporting us throughout the year."

IS-Rayfast acts as a value-added distributor for Tyco Electronics' wire, harnessing, protection, identification and labelling products, in sectors such as aerospace, defence, marine, motorsport and industrial. Paul Godden attributed much of the distributor's recent success in these markets to IS-Rayfast's technical solutions, with sales specialists spending the time required to provide customers with a unique solution to their particular problem or design.

Contact: Paul Godden
Account Manager
Tel: +44-1793-572146
pgodden@tycoelectronics.com