About TESSCO

2007

• TESSCO celebrates its 25th year of enduring success, and receives an Executive Citation from the Baltimore County Executive's Office, for 25 years of contribution to the community.
• TESSCO reports record earnings for the fiscal year ending April 1, 2007, indicative of a 25th year with outstanding advancement in the Company’s strategic positioning as Your Total Source for everything wireless.
• TESSCO is named “Distributor of the Year” by Radio Waves, Inc. in June for providing superior performance as a key distribution partner.
• In July, TESSCO acquires NetForce Solutions, Inc., a provider of technical and sales training solutions to the wireless, telecommunications, and networking industries.
• In the same month, TESSCO announces the signing of a four-year lease on a 65,000 square foot warehouse and office facility near the Company’s Hunt Valley, Maryland Headquarters. This space is named the Innovation Center and is required to support TESSCO’s growing design, manufacturing and custom packaging operation, which in turn enhances the Company’s core value-added supplier business.
• TESSCO introduces the first-ever Wireless Guide At a Glance – a condensed version of The Wireless Guide®, providing valuable access to everything you need, and everything you need to know about what’s new and what’s next in the world of wireless.
• TESSCO is named to Forbes’ 2007 elite list of America’s Best Small Companies, for its consistent pattern of positive sales and profit growth.
• Motorola recognizes TESSCO for Highest Sales Growth in Wireless Broadband, specifically for demonstrating the highest year-over-year sales growth of Motorola Canopy products.
• TESSCO is selected as the Distributor of the Year for Parrot, Inc. for TESSCO’s role in increasing sales for Parrot and for providing promotional support, constructive feedback and creative suggestions that ultimately helped Parrot improve sales, operations and product features.
• Research in Motion (RIM), a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market, bestows TESSCO with an Award of Excellence recognizing the Company’s teamwork and commitment to their partnership.
• Telewave Inc., a designer and manufacturer of high-quality radio system equipment for domestic and international markets, recognizes TESSCO as Distributor of the Year.
• TPL, the industry leader in developing and manufacturing premier RF Power Amplifiers, recognizes TESSCO as Distributor of the Year.
• TESSCO’s Wireless Guide receives top recognition as a superior print catalogue in the Multichannel Merchant Awards – the industry’s top honors for b-to-b and b-to-c multichannel marketers.
• TESSCO receives three awards for various advertising campaigns at the 13th Annual Communicator Awards, which honors creative excellence for communications professionals.

2008

• TESSCO is awarded two new contracts with the states of Iowa and Kansas, under which State and Local entities in both states can start benefitting from TESSCO’s total source wireless offering and leading supply chain solutions. The contracts are issued by the Iowa Telecommunications and Technology Commission for the Iowa Communications Network, as well as the Kansas Department of Administration, the second recent contract awarded to TESSCO is a Western States Contracting Alliance-based Public Safety Communications Contract. Under this alliance, political subdivisions of the State of Kansas are eligible to purchase required equipment from TESSCO with State of Kansas Procurement Cards.
• TESSCO is honored as one of the “Best of the Best” in IT public relations, according to a study evaluating survey responses from more than 800 editors at leading IT and business publications. According to PRSourceCode’s 3rd Annual “Top Tech Communicators” Study, TESSCO is ranked as having one of the best corporate public relations departments in the marketplace.
• For the second consecutive year, TESSCO is named to the Forbes’ elite list of America’s Best Small Companies.
• Chairman, President & CEO Robert B. Barnhill, Jr. is inducted into the Baltimore County Chamber’s Business Hall of Fame – a long-standing business awards event that recognizes the area’s top business leaders whose professional careers and civic commitment have enhanced Baltimore County’s quality of life.
• TESSCO is again recognized as “Distributor of the Year” by Radio Waves, Inc. for providing superior performance as a key distribution partner.
• TESSCO goes beyond the ordinary with the introduction of Ventev™, a new brand of innovative wireless products that focus on high-performing, engineering-driven accessories, equipment, and tools for the wireless industry.
• TESSCO's year-over-year proven ability to exhibit superior performance across many areas, such as sales growth, account development, and supply chain efficiencies, earned the Company Distributor of the Year Awards by Telewave, Inc., Times Microwave Systems, TPL Communications and Radio Waves, Inc.

2009

• TESSCO is acknowledged as Distributor of the Year for 2008 by BridgeWave Communications, the leading supplier of gigabit wireless solutions.
• TESSCO enhances its GSA Program with a five-year extension for the GSA Hardware Super Store (HSS) and Scientific Equipment and Services Schedules (SES).
• TESSCO is named to Baltimore Magazine’s elite list of “25 Best Places to Work” in Maryland.
• The Wireless Guide earns top honors from leading marketing experts during the 26th Annual Conference for Catalog and Multichannel Merchants (ACCM).
• TESSCO launches The Wireless Guide Online – enabling customers to have their buying experience in a new, interactive, eco-friendly format.
• TESSCO is named to the 2009 InformationWeek 500 – an annual, prestigious listing of the nation’s top innovative users of business technology.
• For the third consecutive year, TESSCO is recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Small Companies.