Article: Avnet CMG Introduces Avnet Direct -- a New Electronic Commerce Business Unit; Putting 40,000 Computer Products at Customers' Fingertips.

TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 1997--Rich Ward, president of Avnet's Computer Marketing Group (CMG), announced today the introduction of Avnet Direct, a new business dedicated to selling name brand computer products and services over the Internet to business customers. Avnet Direct's Web site, at www.avnetdirect.com, provides inventory availability, pricing, specifications, features and benefits for more than 40,000 computer products from 130 industry-leading manufacturers, such as Digital Equipment Corp., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Microsoft.

According to Richard Lawson, Avnet Direct's general manager, the new business unit was created to meet ...

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