News | September 17, 2008

PC Connection Tops Supply Chain Innovation And Retail Industry Awards; Ranks #8 Overall On 2008 InformationWeek 500

MERRIMACK, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PC Connection, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCCC - News), a leading direct marketer of information technology (IT) products and services, today announced that it was awarded first place in both the Supply Chain Innovation and the Retail Industry categories, and ranked #8 on the 2008 InformationWeek 500. The award ceremony took place on September 15, 2008, as part of the exclusive InformationWeek 500 Conference at the St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, CA. The InformationWeek 500 is a prestigious list of the brightest business technology innovators in the country.

PC Connection broke into the top 10 of the InformationWeek 500 this year due to its investments in IT infrastructure and supply chain initiatives. "We are honored to be recognized in the InformationWeek 500, and to be ranked #8 overall among the nation's most innovative companies," said Jack Ferguson, Executive Vice President and CFO of PC Connection, Inc. "We will continue to invest in our infrastructure, and introduce innovation wherever possible for the benefit of our customers. Our focus on the customer drives the way we approach solving problems and how we work with our vendor partners."

PC Connection's recognition was the result of a recent software purchasing automation project. The initiative not only significantly reduced the number of purchase orders that needed to be manually created, but also incorporated sourcing logic to route orders to the most appropriate trading partner based on a number of factors, including inventory availability and price. Throughout the project, Company stakeholders provided input—from user interface modifications, to the streamlining of business processes, to workflow redesign—to a newly created project management office.

"For 20 years, the InformationWeek 500 has honored the most innovative users of business technology," said InformationWeek Editor-in-Chief Rob Preston. "Year after year, InformationWeek 500 companies harness technology to improve efficiency, boost productivity, drive revenue, and establish a competitive advantage. We applaud this year's winners, and the CIOs and other executives whose ingenuity and risk taking are at the center of business technology innovation."

InformationWeek has identified and honored the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual listing, now in its 20th year, and has tracked the technology, strategies, investments, and administrative practices of America's best-known companies. The list is unique among corporate rankings because it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders.

Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found online at www.informationweek.com/iw500

About PC Connection, Inc.
PC Connection, Inc., a Fortune 1000 company, owns three sales companies: PC Connection Sales Corporation, MoreDirect, Inc., and GovConnection, Inc., headquartered in Merrimack, NH, Boca Raton, FL, and Rockville, MD, respectively. All three companies can deliver custom-configured computer systems overnight. Investors and media can find more information about PC Connection, Inc. at http://ir.pcconnection.com.

PC Connection Sales Corporation (1-800-800-5555), the original business of PC Connection, Inc. serving the small- and medium-sized business sector (SMB), is a rapid-response provider of information technology (IT) products and services. It offers more than 150,000 brand-name products through its staff of technically trained sales account managers and catalog telesales representatives, catalogs, and publications, and its website at www.pcconnection.com. The subsidiary serves the Apple/Macintosh community through its MacConnection division (1-800-800-2222), which also publishes specialized catalogs and is online at www.macconnection.com.

MoreDirect, Inc. (561-237-3300), www.moredirect.com, provides corporate technology buyers with a comprehensive web-based e-procurement solution and in-depth IT supply-chain expertise, serving as a one-stop source by aggregating more than 300,000 products from the inventories of leading IT wholesale distributors and manufacturers. MoreDirect's TRAXX™ system is a seamless end-to-end interface that empowers clients to electronically source, evaluate, compare prices, and track related technology product purchases in real-time.

GovConnection, Inc. (1-800-800-0019) is a provider of IT products and services to federal, state, and local government agencies and educational institutions through specialized account managers, catalogs, and publications, and online at www.govconnection.com.

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