Ingram Micro Canada Employees and Business Partners Support Vita Centre During Holiday Season
December 04 2012 - 11:49AM
Marketwired
Today, Ingram Micro Canada, a subsidiary of Ingram Micro Inc.
(NYSE: IM), announced it will support the Vita Centre in
Mississauga this holiday season by making a $31,000 cash donation
to the centre. The funds were raised through voluntary
contributions from a number of Ingram Micro Canada's select
business partners. Additionally, the 650 employees at Ingram Micro
Canada's Mississauga office will donate toys and necessities for 15
young Mississauga families.
The Vita Centre is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
providing support for pregnant and parenting women in Peel Region.
The organization offers a number of programs, including counseling
and education to help clients develop parenting and life
skills.
"The Vita Centre provides an important service to our local
community by helping families get on their feet and learn how to
handle the challenges and opportunities that come with being
parents," says Mark Snider, general manager, Ingram Micro Canada.
"As a local business, we are proud to leverage the commitment of
our employees and business partners to help the Vita Centre
continue to provide its much needed services."
"We are able to provide continuous support to families
throughout Peel Region because of the generosity of individuals and
socially conscious firms such as Ingram Micro," says Deborah
Thomson, executive director, Vita Centre. "The funds raised by
Ingram Micro Canada and its business partners will have a direct
impact on our ability to provide quality programming for our
clients, and the contributions from Ingram Micro's employees will
help many families in our community enjoy the holiday season."
Ingram Micro is a socially conscious company that works to
support the communities in which it does business. Ingram Micro
Canada contributes to numerous charities and is committed to being
a responsible corporate citizen whose practices are good for our
communities, environment, partners, associates and business.
Canada's community-based efforts are a part of the company's global
corporate social responsibility (CSR) program with sustainable
activities focused on the environment, the workplace and local
communities. For more information, visit
www.ingrammicro.com/smartcitizen.
About Ingram Micro Inc. Ingram Micro is
the world's largest wholesale technology distributor and a global
leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and
logistics solutions. As a vital link in the technology value chain,
Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for
vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced
logistics and mobile solutions, technical support, financial
services and product aggregation and distribution. The company is
the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving 145 countries
on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of
IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com for more
information.
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Press contacts: Mike O'Drowsky Ingram Micro (905)
755-5000 ext. 55368 Mike.odrowsky@ingrammicro.ca Marie Rourke
WhiteFox Marketing (for Ingram Micro) (714) 292-2199
marie@whitefoxpr.com
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