Rorke Data Europe B.V. announced that the company has come to an agreement with yello! digital production tools AG (Wiesbaden, Germany) to distribute desktop storage solutions all over Germany and Austria.
Rorke Data Europe B.V., a Bell Microproducts Company (NASDAQ; BELM), announced today that the company has come to an agreement with yello! digital production tools AG (Wiesbaden, Germany) to distribute desktop storage solutions all over Germany and Austria. Rorke Data Europe B.V. develops and distributes high-end storage solutions for the Audio/Video, Digital Publishing and Medical markets.
This agreement authorises yello! to provide Rorke's desktop and rackmount storage solutions and all available technologies over a network of authorised resellers in Germany and Austria. Rorke and yello! will offer a comprehensive product portfolio including small-scale RAID 5 enabled SCSI Arrays, price attractive Fibre Channel solutions for server based editing and High End/High Security Workflow Solutions for the Media Content Creation markets. These products are complemented by a wide range of services offered by yello! and Rorke Data such as consulting, support and training.
About yello!
yello! digital production tools AG is a system integrator and distributor for solutions in the digital media markets. The company offers all services that are necessary to provide Turnkey Solutions in these markets. This portfolio is supplemented by a range of services such as consulting, support and training. yello! AG distributes, in close co-operation with its resellers, a wide range of products for the Broadcast, Visual F/X and Interactive Media markets. yello! serves a network of qualified resellers with its product portfolio and provides enduser and dealer servicing. The main distribution areas covered by yello! are Germany and Austria. Since midyear 2001 yello! Bratislava and yello! Cardiff enhance yello!´s presence in Eastern Europe and the U.K.
About Rorke Data
Rorke Data is a full digital storage provider with expertise in Fibre-Channel RAID, SAN, DVD, tape and optical libraries, Unix, NT and Mac environments, high bandwidth networks, digital asset and document management and engineering and maintenance services. Founded in 1985, Rorke Data, together with its European subsidiary, Rorke Data Europe B.V. located in Emmen, The Netherlands, is, composed of four divisions: Audio/Video, Prepress, Medical, Service and Installation. More information about Rorke Data can be found at www.rorke.com. Rorke Data is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts, Inc. (NASDAQ: BELM).
About Bell Microproducts
Bell Microproducts is an international value added provider of a wide range of high technology product solutions and services to the industrial and commercial marketplace. The company's offering includes semiconductors, computer platforms, peripherals, and storage products of various types including desktop, high-end computer and storage subsystems, Fibre-Channel connectivity products, RAID, NAS and SAN storage systems and back-up products. Bell Microproducts is an industry-recognised specialist in storage products and is one of the world's largest storage-centric value-added distributors.
The company's products are available at any level of integration from components, to subsystem assemblies, to fully integrated, tested and certified system solutions. The company adds value with a broad range of services including testing, software loading, kitting, mass storage system integration, and computer system integration. Trained and certified technical personnel complete each of these processes at Bell Microproducts' ÏSO 9002 facilities. Bell Microproducts markets and distributes more than 125 brand name products lines, as well as its own BellStor storage and TradeMark computer brands, to original equipment manufactures (OEMs), contract electronic manufacturing services (EMS) customers, value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators in the Americas and Europe. More information can be found in SEC fillings, or by visiting the Bell Microproducts website at www.bellmicro.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements, which reflect the Company's current views of future events and financial performance, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results or facts to differ materially from such statements for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: the ability to successfully integrate the operations of recent acquisitions, industry conditions, changes in product supply, pricing, and customer demand, competition, other vagaries in the computer and electronic components markets, changes in relationships with key suppliers, foreign currency fluctuations and the other risks described from time to time in the Company's reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K). Investors should take such risks into account when making investment decisions. Shareholders and other readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as if the date on which they are made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements.
For more information, contact Rorke Data Europe B.V., P.O. Box 2246, 7801 CE Emmen,
tel: +31 (0)591 651165, fax: +31 (0) 591 651185, email: info@rorke.nl
