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Annese & Associates, Inc. Receives Top Growth for the East Award by Ingram Micro

Herkimer, N.Y., November 19, 2009—Annese & Associates, Inc., was recently honored at the 9th Annual Spotlight Awards dinner hosted by Ingram Micro, the world’s largest technology distributor, at the end of the 2009 GovEd Alliance Invitational in Savannah, GA on November 10th. Annese was named winner of the Top Growth award for the Eastern region, a highly distinguished honor.

Tony Annese, VP of sales and marketing for Annese, and Rus Healy, chief technology officer, were present at the ceremony to accept the award on the company’s behalf. “We consider Ingram a strategic partner and it is an honor to be recognized with the Top Growth award,” Annese says.

The GovEd Alliance Invitational welcomed over 360 of the best solution providers, managed service providers, and IT vendors at the two day training and education event which the Spotlight Awards dinner concluded. The dinner is designed to recognize Ingram’s U.S. based top performing channel partners selling into the federal, state, local, and education markets that have exhibited outstanding performance and partnership throughout the past year.

“This well established, specialized community of channel partners are the best of the best when it comes to servicing the public sector,” said Joe McCrone, Ingram Micro’s new vice president of government and education and co-host of this year’s event, along with John Fago, senior director of channel marketing at Ingram. Fago stated, “As the industry’s sole exclusive public sector focused channel partner community, Ingram Micro’s GovEd Alliance members continue to lead the industry in all they do and maintain a winning business advantage that is theirs alone.”

A customer of Ingram Micro since 1989, Annese has continually maintained a high level of engagement with the company and has utilized their Market Development teams to help identify and support future sales growth.

About Ingram Micro
As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company serves 150 countries and is the only broad-based global IT distributor with operations in Asia.

About Annese & Associates, Inc.
Today’s communications networks are the foundation for connecting your people and their ideas to one another. At Annese, our mission is to provide an excellent customer experience as we meet our clients’ evolving business objectives through comprehensive, industry-leading technology solutions delivered by a caring and talented team. It is our vision to consistently increase the capability, capacity, and consistency of our people, processes, and systems—See the difference with Annese. 
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