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For Immediate Release
Iomega Corporation Opens New International Procurement Office
In Taiwan
SAN DIEGO,
September 23, 2003 - Iomega Corporation (NYSE:
IOM), a global leader in data storage, announced today
the opening of a new International Procurement Office
(IPO) in Taipei, Taiwan.
“Iomega is reinforcing its
ties with suppliers and channel partners in the Asia-Pacific
region,” said Sean Burke, vice president and general
manager, mobile and desktop solutions, Iomega Corporation.
“Our new IPO organization will allow us to be
better connected to Asia’s high-tech leaders and
coordinate with them on emerging product trends. Our
goal is to bring the newest portable storage products
to market in a timely and efficient process.”
The Taiwan location of Iomega’s new IPO organization
puts Iomega near many of its key suppliers, enabling
closer coordination, improved efficiency and reduced
time to market. The new office also reflects Iomega’s
continuing commitment to growth in product lines such
as external hard drives, flash memory drives, CD-RW
Drives, DVD burners and network attached storage (NAS)
servers, which are sourced through original equipment
manufacturers. Key Iomega suppliers in the Taiwan area
include LiteOn, BTC, DoTop, Argosy, LGE, Hitachi Global
Storage Technologies, Venture Manufacturing and Wistron.
“Iomega is entering a new chapter in its proud
history as a storage innovator, with great products
in development for the balance of 2003 and 2004,”
Burke said. “We intend to build on Iomega’s
long-standing relationships in the Asia-Pacific region,
and the International Procurement Office is a natural
next step to bring us closer to our partners.”
The Iomega IPO organization will report to Michael
Johnson, general manager of branded products for Iomega
Corporation and a member of the U.S. management team.
About Iomega
Iomega Corporation provides easy-to-use, high value
storage solutions to help people protect, secure, capture
and share their valuable digital information. Iomega’s
award-winning storage products include the popular Zip
100MB, 250MB and 750MB drives, high-performance
Iomega
HDD Portable Hard Drives, Iomega
HDD Desktop Hard Drives, Iomega
Mini USB Drives, Iomega
external CD-RW drives, Iomega
DVD drives and the Iomega
Floppy USB-Powered Drive. Iomega simplifies data
protection and sharing at home and in the workplace
with Iomega
Automatic Backup software, Iomega
Sync software, HotBurn®
CD-recording software, and Active
Disk technology. For networks, Iomega
NAS servers offer capacities of 160GB to 1.4TB.
For unlimited capacity and anytime, anywhere access,
Iomega offers iStorage™ secure online
storage. Iomega also offers businesses and consumers
a comprehensive data
recovery services solution for recovering lost data
due to hardware failure, file corruption or media damage.
The Company can be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342),
or on the Web at www.iomega.com.
NOTE: The statements contained in
this release regarding development, production and distribution
of Iomega products, Iomega’s business relationships,
anticipated product pricing and availability, expected
product performance and specifications, future applications
for new products 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, the successful completion
of product development and testing, market acceptance
of, and demand for, the Iomega product, 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 or channel partners, 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, 2002, and its most recent Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q.
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Copyright© 2003 Iomega Corporation.
All rights reserved. Iomega, Zip, Active Disk, iStorage
and HotBurn are either registered trademarks or trademarks
of Iomega Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries. Certain other product names, brand names
and company names may be trademarks or designations
of their respective owners. Any use of the word partner
is not intended to reflect or establish any legal relationship
between Iomega and any other entity.
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