ASUS Eee Box Contest Winners Announced

Mumbai, 20th March ’09: ASUS today announced the winners of the ASUS Eee Box Contest during a close gathering in Mumbai. The online contest which was held last month received over 1380 entries from all over India out of which 3 winners were selected based on their slogans and were given prizes like the Eee Box, an LCD monitor and a pair of cordless earphones. Mr. Don Lewis, a tech enthusiast from Mumbai won the first prize for his ingenious slogan, “Fast, Compact and great features, it has it all. It’s also green. What more does one need than an ASUS EeeBox? The box of my dreams will make my life really Eeesy”.

ASUS’ latest products were also put on display during the gathering for the winners to get a first hand feel of the latest offerings from the ASUS stable. The ASUS G50V gaming notebook, the Eee PC range and the yet to be launched ASUS Bamboo notebook were some of the exciting products put on display. The winners also shared their valuable inputs about ASUS products with the company and a very productive information exchange session followed.

Mr. Albert Tung – Managing Director, ASUS (India) handed over the prizes to the winners and said, “It’s a great opportunity for us to interact with tech enthusiasts and get customer feedback directly from them. In the future we will be looking at more such opportunities to interact directly with our customers. I would like to congratulate the winners and thank them for taking part in our contest.”

Mr. Vinay Shetty – Country Head – Component Products, ASUS (India) said, “With the ever increasing concern over global warming and the looming threat to the environment, ASUS has taken multiple initiatives in manufacturing green, eco-friendly products. Eee Box is yet another revolutionary product from ASUS in the ‘Eee’ product range. Compared to full-sized desktop solutions, the Eee Box’s energy-efficient performance reduces power consumption by up to 90%.”

Expressing his views about the contest, Mr. Rajesh Goenka, VP-Sales & Marketing Rashi Peripherals Pvt. Ltd. said, “The Eee Box contest was an effort to create awareness amongst end users about the benefits of the Eee Box – another trend setting product by ASUS which was conceived keeping the environment in mind. Rashi and ASUS are working together on aggressive promotion of the Eee Box in the coming months and this contest was one of initiatives taken to further this endeavor.”

ASUS in association with Intel had launched the Eee Box – the world’s greenest, quietest and the most cost effective desktop PC in India in October last year. The Eee Box which measures only 1L in size consumes 90% less power than normal desktop PCs and is one of the quietest desktop PC with only 26 decibels sound emission. This revolutionary product is targeted at the Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) and the Home Users segments in India. The company will also be taking fresh initiatives to promote this product in the channel and garner more awareness amongst its target segments.

About ASUS:

ASUS is a leading company in the new digital era. With a global staff of more than ten thousand and a world-class R&D design team, the company’s revenue for 2008 was 8.1 billion U.S. dollars. ASUS ranks among the top 10 IT companies in BusinessWeek’s “InfoTech 100” and has been on the listing for 11 consecutive years. ASUS was also selected by the Wall Street Journal Asia as No.1 in Quality and Services in Taiwan. Its product portfolio includes notebooks, motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, LCD monitors, information appliances, desktop PCs & PC components, servers, wireless solutions, mobile phones, handhelds, digital home solutions, broadband communication products and networking devices.

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