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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ROY, Utah, January 19, 2001 - Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data management solutions, has opened four new international sales offices in 2000, further expanding Iomega's global sales reach in Latin America and Asia, the company announced today.

The new sales offices include Sao Paulo, Brazil; Mexico City, Mexico; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Mumbai, India.

"Iomega products have a universal, worldwide appeal. They are easy to use, innovative, durable and fun," said Roxie Craycraft, executive vice president international business, Iomega Corporation. "We have recognized the potential for growth outside of the United States and the strong brand names we have in Iomega and Zip. These new offices better equip Iomega to understand and support our international customers and to increase sales."

The additional sales offices will provide Iomega's distributors, retailers and end users with local support in a number of countries. The initiative is a direct result of Iomega's international growth strategy to drive international sales and move closer to the customer on a worldwide basis.

About Iomega
Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM) manufactures and markets the award-winning Zip®, Jaz® and PocketZipTM drives and disks, the HipZipTM digital audio player, the FotoShowTM digital image center, LifeWorksTM software, and Iomega Quik Sync 2 software; Iomega also markets Iomega CD-RW drives. Iomega's products help people to save, share, manage and create important information such as Internet downloads, audio files, personal photographs, spreadsheets, and slides, while protecting that content from viruses and hackers. Used in homes, businesses, government and educational facilities and by creative professionals everywhere, Iomega storage solutions are the enabling technologies preferred by millions. The Company can be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342), or on the Web at http://www.iomega.com.

NOTE: The statements contained in this release regarding new international sales offices and all other statements that are not purely historical, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such forward-looking statements are based upon information available to Iomega as of the date hereof, and Iomega disclaims any intention or obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, market acceptance of, and demand for, Iomega products, any difficulties encountered in ramping up production or other manufacturing issues, including component availability and pricing, co-development, production, and distribution issues, product pricing and conformity to specifications, dependence upon third party suppliers, competition, intellectual property rights and other risks and uncertainties identified in the reports filed from time to time by Iomega with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission , including Iomega's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999, and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q

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