Heilind Receives Distribution Excellence Award from APEM

WILMINGTON, Mass., July 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Heilind Electronics, the largest interconnect distributor in North America, has received APEM's Distribution Excellence Award for 2010. The award was presented to Heilind at the annual Electronics Distribution Show and Conference in Las Vegas.

"We're honored to receive this award from APEM," said Keith Lyall, Supplier Business Manager at Heilind. "This recognition speaks to the hard work of both teams and successful partnership Heilind has with APEM."

APEM established its Distributor Excellence award in 2004 to recognize distributors that achieve outstanding growth with APEM products.  Heilind has received this award nearly every year since its inception and received further recognition as APEM's Distributor of the Year three times.

"Heilind is APEM's largest distribution partner and has been an integral part of APEM's tremendous growth over the last 6 years," said Tony Solis, North America Sales Manager, APEM. "Their dedicated team of professionals whose work has made Heilind one of the top electro-mechanical distributors in the world is a tremendous asset to APEM Components."

About Heilind Electronics

Founded in 1974, Heilind Electronics, Inc. (www.heilind.com) is one of the world's leading distributors of connectors, relays, switches, thermal management & circuit protection products, terminal blocks, wire & cable, wiring accessories and insulation & identification products.  Heilind has 25 North American sales offices, two automated distribution centers and a highly versatile value-added center.  Follow Heilind on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Heilind and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Heilind.

About APEM Components, Inc.

For over a half century, APEM has been setting the standard in the design and manufacture of quality switch products. Offering one of the broadest product lines in the market, APEM's switch offering includes: pushbuttons, rockers, slides, DIPs, rotaries, tacts, keylocks, pushwheels and snap-action switches. APEM also provides a wide range of industrial controls, joysticks, membrane switches, panels and keypads. For more information, visit www.apem.com.

Media contact:
Keith Lyall
408-678-3950

SOURCE Heilind Electronics