MoviStar Signs Multi-Year Value-Added Services Agreement With Brightstar Puerto Rico
11 November 2003 - 6:17PM
PR Newswire (US)
MoviStar Signs Multi-Year Value-Added Services Agreement With
Brightstar Puerto Rico MIAMI, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Brightstar
Corporation, a distributor and provider of value-added services for
the wireless telecommunications industry, announced today its
subsidiary Brightstar Puerto Rico has signed a multi-year agreement
with MoviStar. Under the terms of the agreement, Brightstar will
support all of MoviStar's key supply chain activities. Among the
services Brightstar will provide are: product procurement,
inventory management and logistics, order fulfillment, financial
services, web-based solutions and reverse logistics. Brightstar
will expand its facility to support MoviStar and expects to process
more than 200,000 phones annually through this contract. "MoviStar
focuses on providing value to customers and shareholders," said
Claudio Hidalgo, general manager of MoviStar Puerto Rico. "This
alliance will allow to offer more agility to our business,
providing better service to our clients." Hildago added, "We
concentrate on providing the latest technology in mobile phones and
features to offer the highest quality products and services to
clients. The partnership between MoviStar and Brightstar allows us
to successfully achieve these goals." Eduardo Barreto, general
manager of Brightstar Puerto Rico, said, "MoviStar's reputation for
innovation and high quality service makes them an excellent partner
for Brightstar. We're thrilled to provide them with our value added
services to support their customers and assist them in containing
costs." Brightstar Corp. is a privately-held company that has
achieved extraordinary growth; almost doubling its revenues each
year since its founding in October 1997 -- $73 million in 1998,
$140 million in 1999, $355 million in 2000, $631 million in 2001
and $849 million in revenues in 2002. About MoviStar Puerto Rico
MoviStar is the leader in innovative wireless services in Puerto
Rico and operates an island-wide CDMA state of the art network. The
company is managed by Telefonica Moviles (NYSE: TEM; MC) the
leading company of wireless services in Spain, with operations in
Latin America and the Mediterranean region. Telefonica Moviles has
more than 46 million customers worldwide. It had a net profit of
779 million euros in the first half of 2003. In Puerto Rico,
MoviStar operates 12 stores around the island. For more
information, please visit our web page at:
http://www.movistarpr.com/ . About Brightstar Founded in 1997,
Brightstar Corporation is a solution provider and value- added
distribution and manufacturing services company. The company
provides customers in the wireless industry with inventory
management, logistics, fulfillment, Internet-based solutions,
customized packaging and after-sales support. Brightstar was
recently named to the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private
companies in the United States and ranks second on the Hispanic
Business 500. Its customer base includes over 160 network operators
and nearly 15,000 distributors, agents, resellers and retailers
around the world. Brightstar is one of Motorola's strategic
partners in Latin America and the U.S. and an authorized
distributor for all leading wireless equipment manufacturers.
Brightstar operates 20 facilities in 16 countries worldwide. Its
headquarters is based in Miami, FL, with operations in Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru,
the United States and Puerto Rico and Venezuela. During the year
ended December 31, 2002, Brightstar's consolidated revenues were
$849 million. The company has exceeded $1 billion in consolidated
revenues in the 12 months of operations from June 2002 - May 2003.
For more details, visit http://www.brightstarcorp.com/ .
DATASOURCE: Brightstar Corporation CONTACT: Oscar Fumagali of
Brightstar, +1-305-921-1117, Web site:
http://www.brightstarcorp.com/ http://www.movistarpr.com/
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