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INGRAM MICRO APPOINTS SENIOR DIRECTOR OF INVESTOR RELATIONS

SANTA ANA, Calif., Oct. 7, 1996
Ingram Micro Inc. announced today that Kimmerly W. Strohm has joined the company as senior director of investor relations. In this newly created position, Strohm will develop and manage the company's overall financial communications strategies, and interface with Ingram Micro's analyst and investment community. She will report to Jerre L. Stead, chairman and CEO of Ingram Micro.

"As we approach our initial public offering, bringing a seasoned, highly professional investor relations person into our company, is very important," said Jerre Stead, chairman and CEO of Ingram Micro. "We are very pleased to have Kim join our company."

Strohm last served as an independent consultant for Nat Systems International, an application development tools vendor, based in Virginia. Prior to that, she served as an enterprise account representative of Herndon, Va.-based Computer Associates International, Inc.

From 1988 to 1995, Strohm worked for Herndon, Va.-based Legent Corporation, where she last served as senior director of corporate planning. While at Legent, she managed five corporate functions, including investor relations, industry analyst relations, customer relations, corporate information centers and sales information services.

Prior to Legent, she worked for the Carnegie Group, Inc., as manager of technical marketing from 1985 to 1987. She began her career at American Management Systems, Inc. as a systems analyst in 1983.

Strohm earned a master's degree in business administration from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn., and holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Duke University in Durham, N.C.

Ingram Micro Inc., headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif., is the world's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services, with 1995 sales of $8.617 billion. Worldwide sales for the first two quarters of 1996 total $ 5.543 billion. The company operates in 19 countries and distributes more than 36,000 products to over 100,000 resellers in 120 countries.

Contact:

Ingram Micro, Inc.
Kirsten Frosh
714-566-1000 ext. 22727