CompUSA to Celebrate the Re-Opening of Two Central Florida Retail Stores

Orlando and Altamonte Springs Stores to Host Grand Reopening Events Beginning April 18

ORLANDO, Fla. – (April 15, 2008) – Two Central Florida “all-new” CompUSA retail stores will host grand reopening celebrations beginning at 7 a.m. on Friday, April 18. The stores, which recently reopened their doors to customers, are located at 7802 South Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando and 130 East Altamonte Drive in Altamonte Springs.

The retail outlets will open early at 7 a.m. on Friday, April 18, to extend the grand reopening celebration. On Saturday store patrons will be able to take advantage of CompUSA Hourly Deals that go beyond advertised reopening sale prices and stores will be offering limited free giveaways.

The grand reopening festivities will continue the following weekend (April 26-27) with the Great CompUSA PC Race. Challengers may sign up in advance at the stores or online to select where they want to compete. The first 100 would-be tech wizards to register at each store will then compete in 10 heats on Saturday, April 26 (10 a.m.-8 p.m.), to see who can build a computer the quickest by following a CompUSA instruction sheet. The 10 top contestants at each store – the winners of each heat – will be invited back on Sunday, April 27, at 2 p.m. for head-to-head competition. The ultimate winner from each store will take home a 32-inch Toshiba LCD TV.

The grand reopening celebration continues for four weeks and will feature special Deals of the Day, spotlighted products and other activities.

As part of the reopening, international technology company Lenovo and CompUSA also will launch their “Giving Back to School Contest.” Parents and friends 18 and older of students from middle and high schools near each of CompUSA’s four Central and North Florida stores will be invited to register online to help win a new computer lab for the school of their choice. The school that generates the most valid entries on their behalf during the month-long contest will receive 10 Lenovo computers and 10 LCD monitors for its computer lab.

According to Gilbert Fiorentino, President of Systemax’s Technology Products segment, the new CompUSA retail stores wish to give something back to the communities that helped make these locations among the strongest in the former CompUSA network.

“Today’s students will become tomorrow’s leaders and will be called upon to perform in an environment built upon computers and technology,” said Fiorentino. “We believe one of the best ways to prepare these young people for being successful in the future is to provide them today with tools that will help generate that success.”

The stores are among 16 CompUSA retail locations that have been refurbished, re-stocked and reopened by Systemax Inc. The additional stores are located in other Florida markets, Texas and Puerto Rico.