Renesas Electronics Named Supplier of the Year 2012 by Grundfos

Dusseldorf, July 11, 2013 – Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that it has been named as Supplier of the Year by Grundfos, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of pumps and electric motors. Chosen from over 2000 suppliers, Renesas Electronics achieved an almost faultless performance by being honoured for its excellence in six categories: Quality, Productivity, Technology, Delivery and Flexibility, Transportation and Logistics, and B2B collaboration. Renesas Electronics Corporation supplies Grundfos with microcontrollers for its intelligent pumps and motors. Grundfos sees Renesas as a strategic business partner that plays an active role in product development.

These convincing results make Renesas Electronics one of Grundfos' most important suppliers. Grundfos executives presented the award to Renesas at a ceremony at Grundfos’ headquarters in Bjerringbro, Denmark, on July 3rd 2013.

“We’ve been working with Renesas for over 20 years – our close cooperation extends beyond the confines of a conventional supplier/customer relationship,” noted Klavs Hornum, Group Vice President at Grundfos. “This is a partnership covering strategic issues such as technology platforms and procurement – not just products – and both parties learn and benefit from it.”

“We’re very proud to have won this award from Grundfos, especially seeing that we excelled within no less than six different categories,” said Rainer Bechem, Head of Unit at Renesas Electronics Europe. “It’s based on a company-wide effort, including faultless communications and engineering collaboration by Renesas Electronics Europe and Renesas Electronics Corporation.”

About Renesas Electronics Europe

Renesas delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live – securely and safely. As the number one global supplier of microcontrollers, and a leader in A&P and SoC products, Renesas provides the expertise, quality, and comprehensive solutions for a broad range of Automotive, Industrial, Home Electronics (HE), Office Automation (OA) and Information Communication Technology (ICT) applications to help shape a limitless future.

Renesas Electronics Corporation was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Japan.With over 800 hardware and software alliance partners worldwide, it has the industry’s largest local support network. Renesas Electronics’ European structure is comprised of three business units – the Automotive, the Broad-based and the Industrial Solution Business Unit.

Further information about Renesas Electronics Europe is available at www.renesas.com

Renesas Electronics Europe is also on social media at http://twitter.com/Renesas_Europe, http://facebook.com/RenesasEurope and http://youtube.com/RenesasPresents.

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