Ingram Micro Announces the 2009 GovEd Alliance Spotlight Award Winners

The Public Sector's Top-Performing Channel Partners Recognized by Ingram Micro for Outstanding Growth and Partnership at the Annual GovEd Alliance Invitational

SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrating its channel partners' success and growing expertise, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today announced the recipients of the 2009 GovEd Alliance Spotlight Award Winners.

Presented earlier this month at Ingram Micro's 2009 GovEd Alliance Invitational in Savannah, GA, these annual awards recognize many of the year's best performing and fastest growing GovEd Alliance members and organizations. Established in 2000, Ingram Micro's GovEd Alliance community is comprised of more than 2,500 channel partners and managed service providers in the U.S., who focus more than fifty percent of their business on serving the IT and business needs of the public sector.

This year's GovEd Alliance Spotlight honors include the Top Growth and Partnership Awards, which were presented to Ingram Micro's top performing channel partners selling into the federal, state, local, and education markets. The 2009 Overall Top Growth Award was presented to Virginia-based systems integrator Intelligent Decisions Inc. for their outstanding and unrivaled year-over-year growth. SDV Tech, a Wisconsin-based, service-disabled, veteran-owned small business and online e-commerce IT reseller was awarded the Top Diversity Partner Network Growth Award for leveraging Ingram Micro's Diversity Partner Program as a growth catalyst for extending its business.

A complete list of the 2009 GovEd Partner Awards includes:

    Top Federal Growth Award            Overall Top Growth Award
     -- Red River Computer Company       -- Intelligent Decisions Inc.

    Top K-12 Education Growth Award     Top Regional Growth Awards
     -- Promedia Technology Services     -- iGov (Capital Region)
        Inc.                             -- Wildflower International (West)
                                         -- Annese & Associates (East)
    Top Education Growth Award           -- Technology for Education (Central)
     -- Journey Ed
                                        Partnership Awards
    Top State and Local Growth Award     -- Unistar-Sparco Computers
     -- Knot Technology Solutions           (Central)
                                         -- Global Technology Resources
    Top Diversity Partner Network           (West)
    Growth Award                         -- Promedia Technology Services Inc.
     -- SDV Tech                            (East)
                                         -- Information Transport Solutions
                                            (South)

                                        Top Growth College Campus Reseller
                                         -- Marist College Computer Store

"As the industry's sole exclusive public sector focused channel partner community, Ingram Micro's GovEd Alliance members continue to lead the industry in all they do and maintain a winning business advantage that is theirs alone," says John Fago, Senior Director of Channel Marketing, Ingram Micro North America. "We are very proud of each and every one of our GovEd Alliance members and congratulate the 2009 GovEd Spotlight Award Winners!"

For more information about Ingram Micro's GovEd Alliance community, channel partners and IT, manufacturers should contact their Ingram Micro sales representative.

About Ingram Micro

As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company serves approximately 150 countries and is the only global broad-based IT distributor with operations in Asia. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.

SOURCE Ingram Micro Inc.

Released November 13, 2009