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Jim Recob, Iomega Corporation, (801)332-4430 recob@iomega.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ROY, Utah, March 6, 2001 - Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data management solutions, today announced it was honored with a vendor award for 2000 from OfficeMax.

At the recent OfficeMax Vendor Summit in Las Vegas, Iomega received a Strategic Partnership award in the electronics category. Iomega was chosen for excellence in sales, marketing program participation, and category leadership and delivery processes.

"Iomega takes great pride in delivering valued-added solutions to our partners as well as our customers, said Herbert K. Scales, senior vice president, sales, Iomega Corporation. "By strengthening partnerships with our retail channel, we're increasing our customers' business as well as our own. To have partner recognition in the form of an award like this from a customer like OfficeMax is fantastic. It affirms that our renewed focus on the customer is achieving our mutally desired results."

Michael Feuer, OfficeMax chairman and chief executive officer, said, "This past year Iomega excelled in critical areas including sales and gross margin increases, marketing program participation, category leadership and delivery processes. Additionally, Iomega displayed an unparalleled commitment in working with OfficeMax to ultimately create better value for our customers."

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 QuikSyncTM software; Iomega also markets Iomega CD-RW drives and Iomega MicrodriveTM. 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.

About OfficeMax
In addition to the Company's full-size superstores in the United States offering office products, business machines and related items, OfficeMax also features CopyMax and FurnitureMax, in-store modules devoted exclusively to "print-for-pay" services and office furniture. Additionally, the Company reaches customers with over 30,000 items through its award-winning eCommerce site, OfficeMax.com, its direct-mail catalogs and its outside sales force, all of which are serviced by its 19 delivery centers and two national call centers. The Company is also the only office products superstore to feature Gateway computers in its unique store-within-a-store concept. Through joint venture partnerships OfficeMax also operates stores internationally in Mexico and Brazil.

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Copyright© 2001 Iomega Corporation. All rights reserved. Iomega, Zip, Jaz, PocketZip, HipZip, FotoShow, QuikSync and LifeWorks are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Iomega Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Microdrive is a trademark of IBM Corporation and is used with permission.