Photo caption: Arrow Spoerle employees Gert Lemke and Doris Sprenger-Ali proudly display their “Demand Creation Competition Awards“ from National Semiconductor.

Doris Sprenger-Ali, internal sales assistant, and Gert Lemke, field sales engineer, from the Arrow Spoerle office in Hamburg, Germany, are the recipients of the National Semiconductor “Demand Creation Competition Award“ for the second quarter of 2005.

The award reaffirms Arrow's back-to-basics strategy in addressing the needs of the customer jointly with the supplier, which has been implemented by Spoerle's sales force and National Semiconductor with great success.

National Semiconductor, a leading manufacturer of analog devices and subsystems, presents the award to the field sales engineer and internal sales assistant who have filed and approved the most projects or closed the most deals for the manufacturer for that quarter. Spoerle and Sasco Holz (formerly Sasco) have been a partner with National Semiconductor since 1959.