ASBIS Drives Lenovo Mobile PC Channels

Press-release

Limassol (Cyprus), September 10, 2009 – ASBIS, an expert in the IT products distribution to the EMEA emerging markets, is to continue enhancing its mobile PCs portfolio with entering the agreements with Lenovo for distributing award-winning notebooks lines of IdeaPad and ThinkPad.

Under the terms of the agreements, ASBIS licensed to distribute Lenovo notebooks to Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Saudi Arabia. New countries have been added to Russia and Ukraine, where the distribution rights were gained in 2008. Last month ASBIS Russia has awarded the “FY2008 IdeaPad Platinum Distributor” award in recognition of the successful partnership in distributing award-winning IdeaPad notebooks in Russian Federation.

There are two lines of Lenovo laptop computers are available for ASBIS customers:

• Quality-built and nicely equipped with the latest technology and cool features the line of IdeaPad notebooks is ideal for home, home office, school and everywhere in between.
• ThinkPad laptop computers are exceptionally engineered to boost productivity, enhance mobility and reduce your total cost of ownership and designed for businesses, schools and power users everywhere.

“We are extremely pleased to add Lenovo laptop computers to our portfolio and this is an important milestone in our strategy of enhancing our finished products offer,” said Laurent Journoud, Executive Vice-President for Sales and Marketing at ASBIS. “We look forward to a great partnership with Lenovo to provide the customers with the latest mobile technologies both on enterprise and consumer segments of the market.”

About ASBIS

ASBISc Enterprises PLC (WSE: ASB) is based in Cyprus and specializes in the distribution of IT products from worldwide leading manufacturers such as Intel, Seagate, Hitachi, Microsoft, Samsung, AMD, Toshiba and DELL. Asbis has own subsidiaries in 26 countries, more than 1,000 employees, 30,000 active customers, and its revenues reached US$ 1.5 billion in 2008. For further information, visit the company's website at www.asbis.com. 

About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is dedicated to building exceptionally engineered personal computers. Lenovo’s business model is built on innovation, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction as well as a focus on investment in emerging markets. Formed by Lenovo Group’s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide. Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information see www.lenovo.com.