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KOA Speer Again Receives Top Supplier Awards from TTI

Bradford, PA - May 21, 2014 - KOA Speer Electronics, a leading supplier of passive electronic components, announced they have received TTI's 2013 Platinum, Diamond and Best Quality AwardsKOA Speer's Platinum TTI Award for Supplier Excellence. The TTI Supplier Excellence Award Program represents the highest recognition possible of a supplier's performance within TTI. The program is centered on quality measurements that include: on-time delivery, receiving quality, customer-reported quality, administrative quality, operations and business systems.

2013 marks the fourth consecutive year KOA Speer has received the Diamond and Best Quality awards, which are awarded to the supplier with the overall highest point achievement, and to the supplier who scores the highest in each of the possible Quality categories. KOA Speer has been a Supplier Excellence Award recipient in 18 of 19 years that TTI has presented the awards. The Platinum Level Excellence Award is an honor that can only be achieved after superior performance for a minimum of 5 consecutive years.

Melanie Pizzey, TTI Vice President Global Product Operations, stated "We are pleased to announce this year's Diamond Award and the Best Quality Award will be presented to KOA Speer Electronics for the fourth year in a row, acknowledging their distinguished performance in the Americas for 2013. KOA Speer has continued to demonstrate their dedication and commitment to excellence."

Jeff Rice, President of KOA Speer Electronics, commented "Being named Top Supplier by TTI is very rewarding for our entire organization. Our team works extremely hard to carryout the principles of our Quality 1st program and deliver outstanding service on a daily basis."

About TTI:
TTI, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty distributor of passive, interconnect, electromechanical and discrete components. TTI is the distributor of choice for electronic manufacturers worldwide. TTI's extensive product line includes: resistors, capacitors, connectors, potentiometers, trimmers, magnetic circuit protection, filters, relays, switches, sensors and discrete semiconductor devices. TTI is recognized as the industry's leader in service and quality and provides a broad array of supply chain services to its customer base. TTI along with its subsidiary Mouser Electronics employs more than 3,500 with over 100 locations throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
For more information about TTI visit www.ttiinc.com.

About KOA Speer:
KOA Corporation, whose global presence includes corporate headquarters in Japan, and sales locations in the USA, Germany, China and Singapore, offers a wide range of products which include thick and thin film resistors, current sensing resistors and resistor arrays; thermal sensors, fuses and varistors; wire wound, multilayer, power and thin film inductors; LTCC's and modules. KOA Speer Electronics, an affiliate of KOA Corporation, has served the electronics industry since 1980. Visit www.koaspeer.com

For more information, contact:
KOA Speer Electronics, Inc.
199 Bolivar Drive
Bradford, PA 16701
(P) 814-362-5536 ext. 266
(F) 814-362-8883

www.koaspeer.com

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Tim Glass
Altman-Hall Associates
235 W. 7th Street
Erie, PA 16501
(P) 814-454-0158

www.altman-hall.com