Digi-Key Electronics Named Vishay European Catalog Distributor of the Year

Thief River Falls, Minnesota, United States - May 13, 2021

Digi-Key Electronics, the leading global electronic components distributor, received the Catalog Distributor of the Year 2020 award from Vishay, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components.

The award recognizes Digi-Key's contributions to Vishay's European revenue, growth, customer count and more over the past year. Vishay offers an unmatched portfolio of discrete semiconductors (diodes, MOSFETs, and optoelectronics) and passive components (resistors, inductors, and capacitors). These components are used in virtually all types of electronic devices and equipment in the industrial, computing, automotive, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets.

"The Catalog Distributor of the Year award is a great milestone in our ever-growing relationship and we are especially proud to receive the award for the year 2020," said Hermann Reiter, senior director, EMEA suppliers and new market development for Digi-Key. "Last year held the most hurdles and roadblocks not only in business but also for all of us in our personal lives, and of course they are not over yet. It was one of incredibly difficult and unpredictable developments, and therefore this award is especially meaningful to us."

"We are proud to present Digi-Key EMEA with this award and congratulate their whole team for their outstanding performance across EMEA. This 2020 Catalog Distribution of the Year recognition reflects Digi-Key's high level of service and breadth of inventory making Vishay's technologies and solutions more visible and available to our customers," said Philippe Masson, Senior Director, Sales Distribution Europe for Vishay.

For more information, or to order from Digi-Key’s full line of Vishay products, please visit any of Digi-Key's global websites.

About Vishay Intertechnology

Vishay manufactures one of the world's largest portfolios of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components that are essential to innovative designs in the automotive, industrial, computing, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. Serving customers worldwide, Vishay is The DNA of tech. Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. is a Fortune 1,000 Company listed on the NYSE (VSH).