Plexus Announces Regional President -- EMEA, Steve Frisch

NEENAH, Wis., Oct. 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plexus Corp. (Nasdaq:PLXS) today announced that Steve Frisch, an Executive Officer of Plexus, has transitioned into a new role as Regional President – EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa). Steve will provide cohesive regional leadership to the Plexus EMEA team and will retain the top level leadership role over Plexus Technology Group, the Company's engineering services organization. 

Dean Foate, President and CEO, commented, "Steve's assignment is an important milestone in the evolution of our EMEA regional growth strategy; a market that is vitally important to our longer-term growth goals. With a successful strategy, we will engage multinational customers that should ultimately benefit both our EMEA regional sites and other global Plexus sites. Over the last several years we have advanced supporting initiatives to set the stage for regional market penetration including investments in our EMEA customer development resources, our new manufacturing site in Oradea, Romania, and the positioning of our operations in the UK as part of a broader, integrated EMEA regional service offering. In this new role, Steve will continue to develop our regional strategy and build our Plexus brand as the leader in delivering mid-to-low volume, higher complexity Product Realization Value Stream solutions in this geographically important region."

Previously, Steve has held various management positions in the Company's engineering services organization and has more than 20 years of electronics industry experience. He holds a master's of science degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University and a bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering and technology from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.

About Plexus Corp. – The Product Realization Company

Plexus ( www.plexus.com ) delivers optimized Product Realization solutions through a unique Product Realization Value Stream service model. This customer focused service model seamlessly integrates innovative product design, customized supply chain solutions, uniquely configured "focused factory" manufacturing, global end-market fulfillment and after-market services to deliver comprehensive end-to-end solutions for customers in the North American, European and Asia-Pacific regions.

Plexus is the industry leader in servicing mid-to-low volume, higher complexity customer programs characterized by unique flexibility, technology, quality and regulatory requirements. Award-winning customer service is provided to over 100 branded product companies in the Wireline/Networking, Wireless Infrastructure, Medical, Industrial/Commercial and Defense/Security/Aerospace market sectors.