SBS Technologies, Inc. opens European Sales Office

SBS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBSE) ("SBS") today announced the opening of the SBS Computer Group European Regional Sales office located just outside of London, England, SBSí second European Sales office. In Fiscal 1996, SBS opened its first European sales office in Glasgow, Scotland to represent the SBS Aerospace Group. Both offices provide sales support, field application engineering, and technical support services for OEM customers and distributors in Europe and the Middle East. "Expanding our presence in the international marketplace is a key strategic focus of the Company as we continue to develop our presence as a unified company," said Steve Cooper, President and Chief Operating Officer. "Our existing European distributors have done a good job bringing our products to the industrial OEM companies and system designers abroad. We are enhancing these efforts by opening SBS sales offices that will provide customers more direct SBS contact and technical support," Mr. Cooper added. The four SBS Computer Group units, SBS Bit 3 Operations, SBS Embedded Computers, SBS GreenSpring Modular I/O, and SBS Micro Alliance, design and manufacture standard-bus computer products for the embedded systems market. The two SBS Aerospace Group units, SBS Berg Telemetry Systems and SBS Avionics Technologies, design and manufacture open-architecture telemetry solutions and avionics test and interface modules.