HEVERLEE, Belgium, December 10, 2002 – During the awards dinner in Heverlee, Belgium last week, Telindus has received the prestigious “Award for Excellence” in the category “Telecom Systems Integrator”. Data News, a VNU publication, is a weekly magazine for IT professionals and is distributed –in Dutch and French- on 23.200 copies (controlled circulation). Readership includes IT decision makers, CIOs and ICT, telecom, HR, finance and general managers.
Every week it offers the ICT decision makers a full survey of all the news and trends in the network economy. Specific to Data News is its strong emphasis on the local market with profiles of Belgian companies and stories from users of local companies. It is exactly in this context that the yearly awards ceremony is to be situated.
Sixteen excellence awards (one per category) and two quality awards per category are presented to those software vendors, hardware manufacturers and IT service providers who stood out and appealed to the readers of Data News.
Telindus, the Integrator, was an early pioneer in providing networking and data communications services and solutions. Today, Telindus is the leader in network and security consulting, integration and management for European markets. The Integrator is represented in 16 countries worldwide and employs over 2,300 technology experts. The company reported an operating income of 655 million Euros in 2001, up from 559 million Euros the previous year. Telindus serves a broad spectrum of financial, government, and enterprise institutions.
Telindus’ “Award for Excellence” is yet another confirmation of its market leadership in the Belgian market. Telindus would like to thank its customers for their votes and is firmly committed to further cater their network and security needs today and tomorrow.
Customers wanting more information about Data News can have a look at http://www.vnunet.be/datanews/ where a complete list of the award winners has been published. More details on the awards ceremony will be available online this week.
About Telindus
Publicly listed and headquartered in Belgium, the Telindus Group (listed on Euronext Brussels, ticker TEL) is a European expert in data and telecommunications networks. Telindus has extensive expertise in all areas of modern telecommunications applications and technologies including LAN, MAN, WAN, Internet, e-business, network access and security, VOIP, VPN, fixed and mobile communication. Founded in 1969, the Telindus Group currently employs over 2,300 people across 60 establishments spanning 16 countries in addition to an extensive network of global agents across all continents. Telindus has a broad portfolio of customers and can offer both regional and pan-European references in virtually every industry sector. Telindus has its corporate headquarters at 335 Geldenaaksebaan, Heverlee (close to the city of Leuven), B-3001 in Belgium.
For more information on Telindus' networking solutions and services, please visit http://www.telindus.com/.
For information related to Telindus’ International Symposium on October 24, please refer to http://www.telindussymposium.com./.