Empower Technologies™ Signs Two Manufacturers Representatives Agencies in U.S. Richmond, British Columbia – May 11th, 2007 - Empower Technologies (Empower) (TSX.V: EPT) is pleased to announce the signing of iRep, Inc. of Brownsboro, Alabama (iRep) and North Coast Technical Sales, Inc. of Chesterland, Ohio (North Coast) as exclusive manufacturers representatives of Empower Technologies' products and services. This latest addition to our sales force signifies the start of our new sales & marketing initiative targeting embedded-systems solutions providers in North America . The territories of iRep extend over seven states ( Mississippi , Alabama , Tennessee , Georgia , North Carolina , South Carolina , and Florida ) which encompass major government Value-Added Resellers (VARs) and aerospace industries. North Coast covers five states ( Michigan , Ohio , Indiana , Kentucky , and West Virginia ), as well as the western part of Pennsylvania . The leading industries in this industrial belt are the automotive and the transportation sectors, and associated industrial control VARs and integrators. Both these sales agencies have extensive experience providing embedded-systems solutions to their customer base by representing first-tier solution-oriented synergistic companies. Combined geographically, these two manufacturers representative firms' sale territories cover 12 and a half states in some of the most populous regions and industrial/technology centres in the United States . iRep and North Coast will be selling Empower's core embedded software and system technologies product – the LinuxDA Embedded Operating System (LEOs) and its accompanying development target platform, the Texas Instruments (TI) based LDK591x to developers, engineers, VARs, and system integrators for Design Wins. Their success will be measured by the number of Design Wins and by how many of these Design Wins will turn into manufactured products using Empower's LEC- LEOs Enabling Chip. Empower expects that these two new field-sales engineering agencies will help the Company to open up new markets. Empower is confident that there are strong demands from customers in established old-line businesses that urgently need to embrace the revolutionary embedded software and system technologies to add intelligent and new advance features/functionality to rejuvenate their long established proven product lines and LEOs and LDK591x are the perfect “one stop” development solutions they need. To contact iRep, you can call 256 513 4384 or write at carl@irepinc.com ; and North Coast Technical Sales can be reached at 440 729 7540 or at www.nctechsales.com.
About Empower Technologies™ Founded in 2000, Empower Technologies (TSX.V: EPT) is an innovative company that brings the power and flexibility of the LEOs® (LinuxDA™ Embedded Operating System) to the dynamic Consumer Electronics Industry and the emerging Intelligent Appliance Market, through their development of Linux-based operating software, embedded system technologies and solutions. The products and services that form the base of its business activities include an embedded system development platform for LEOs®, based on Texas Instruments™ embedded CPU platform, that fulfill the needs, demands of developers and the Consumer Electronics Industry. Empower is continuing to develop LEOs® and newer versions of embedded CPUs in line with Texas Instruments™. By uniting top professionals from within the computer industry and developing quality partnerships and strategic alliances, Empower is committed to being the leading developer of Linux-based operating software and embedded system technologies and solutions for consumer electronics manufacturers and developers. Empower's brands are “LEOs®”, “LinuxDA™”, Linux-based embedded operating systems and “PowerPlay™”, smart consumer electronics.
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