Nortel Distributor Recognized for High Customer Loyalty and Significant Increase in Sales

<%=company1%> (WDS) has received two prestigious awards from Northern Telecom (Nortel) as a premier distributor of its telephony products. At the Nortel Independent Distributors Conference held recently in California, WDS took home the Gold Award for year-to-year growth of product sales and a significant increase of the Nortel market share in the Baltimore-Washington region. Subsequently, WDS attended Nortel's Customer Loyalty Seminar and received the Customer Loyalty Award for 1997. When surveyed, WDS customers repeatedly indicated their extremely high level of satisfaction with both the company and the products serviced.

With primary concentration in the mid-Atlantic region, WDS has provided telephony services to hundreds of government agencies and commercial companies. These services include the sale, installation and maintenance of equipment and training for the end user.

For the past 15 years, WDS has been meeting the business needs of a variety of customers in the public and private sector. The company is headquartered in Springdale, MD with additional offices in Columbia and Rockville, MD and Manhattan, NY. Continued growth in both personnel and revenue is anticipated as well as a commitment to the company's #1 goal: customer satisfaction.