Toshiba Imaging Awards Aegis Electronics Top Distributor Award


May 21, 2008 Irvine, CA - Toshiba Imaging Systems Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems (TAIS) and a leader in advanced video imaging awarded Aegis Electronic Group, Inc. (www.aegis-elec.com) the Top Distributor Award for the fiscal year 2007. Vince Giovinco, Toshiba Imaging's National Sales Manager, presented the award to Aegis Electronic's President/CEO Carolynn Larson-Garcia, General Manager Sonja Walker and the Aegis' corporate staff during a recent visit to the Aegis headquarters in Gilbert, AZ.

"Aegis Electronic Group, Inc. has shown its ability to sell and service Toshiba's top quality family of video cameras to a variety of markets, including industrial machine vision, scientific, biomedical and R&D. It is our great pleasure to present this prestigious award to the talented and hard-working Aegis team. We are enormously proud of the partnership we've developed and look forward to many more productive and profitable years," states Mr. Giovinco.

Toshiba Imaging Systems Division (Irvine,CA) is the premier supplier of high quality video cameras for machine vision, R&D and scientific applications. Advanced video imaging technology and high resolution cameras such as Toshiba's 3 CCD color cameras and their remote head family has earned Toshiba America Imaging Systems Division the distinctive reputation for offering the most advanced imaging solutions to the industrial and scientific communities.

TAIS (Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.) provides sales, marketing and services for its wide range of information products in the United States and Latin America. TAIS is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, which is a global leader in high technology and integrated manufacturing of electrical and electronic components, products and systems, as well as major infrastructure systems. Toshiba was founded in 1875, and today operates a global network of more than 740 companies, with 198,000 employee's worldwide and annual sales surpassing US$76 billion. For more information on Toshiba's leading innovations, visit the company's Web site at www.toshiba.com.

Aegis Electronic Group, Inc. is a valued-added International distribution company integrating a technical sales staff and the highest performance industrial imaging equipment. Aegis offers a full line of industrial imaging equipment: cameras, lenses, frame grabbers, monitors and software for complete imaging application integration. Aegis is a small business woman-owned entity serving the imaging industry since 1990, for more information visit www.aegis-elec.com

Toshiba Imaging Systems Division
9740 Irvine Blvd.
Irvine, CA 92618-1697

Contact: Vince Giovinco
Email: Vincent.Giovinco@tais.toshiba.com
Phone: 602-796-7130 / Toll-free 1-877-595-4425
Website: www.cameras.toshiba.com

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