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For Immediate Release
Iomega Corporation Honored with Channel Intelligence Award
For Online Sales Leads
During International Consumer Electronics Show
SAN DIEGO,
February 16, 2004 -
Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data storage, today announced
that it has been honored with a 2004 Channel Intelligence Award for its online
sales leads from Iomega.com to its channel partners in the storage category
during the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Channel Intelligence, Inc. recognized Iomega for achieving
the highest selling opportunities in the data storage
market in 2003. Iomega, along with winners in eight
other categories, contributed to Channel Intelligence's
more than $10 billion in sales leads, resulting in
more than $2 billion in sales for their manufactures
and dealers.
“Iomega is honored to have been given this award from
Channel Intelligence,” said Greg Rhine, vice president
and general manager of Americas and Asia Pacific, Iomega
Corporation. “It is fantastic to know that customers
can come to Iomega.com and be linked with the product
or products that meet their needs. It is a testament
to our on-going effort to provide the best storage
solutions to our customers through easy and convenient
channels.”
Iomega proactively drives qualified traffic to its
web site, utilizing both online and traditional marketing
strategies for an integrated marketing approach. This
consists of customer acquisition campaigns with print
ads, banner ads and direct mail; awareness campaigns
with online seminars; and customer retention campaigns
with permission-based email marketing. The ultimate
goal is to drive prospects and customers to Iomega.com,
educate them on Iomega's full line of storage solutions
and move them through each step of the purchase lifecycle.
Iomega supports a customer choice model, providing
customers with a convenient selection of purchasing
options from which to choose.
Channel Intelligence, Inc. is responsible for linking
manufacturers with their dealers, improving selling
both online and offline.
“Channel-savvy manufacturers like Iomega are seeing a powerful advantage in the way our channel model links shoppers at their web sites to specific dealers carrying and stocking their items,” said Rob Wight, president and CEO of Channel Intelligence. “The easier it is to shop a manufacturer’s site, the more likely a customer will make a purchase.”
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
External Hard
Drives in desktop and network configurations, Iomega
Mini USB Drives and Micro Mini USB Drives, Iomega
external CD-RW drives, Iomega
Super 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 2TB.
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.
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* Where 1 MB = 1 million bytes
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Zip, REV, Active Disk, iStorage, HotBurn and QuikTouch 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
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