Wesco Aircraft Renews Multi-Year Agreement With Rockwell Collins

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VALENCIA, Calif., June 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc. WAIR, one of the world's leading distributors and providers of comprehensive supply chain management services to the global aerospace industry, today announced the renewal of an agreement with Rockwell Collins, a leader in aviation and high-integrity solutions for commercial and military customers around the world.

This multi-year agreement renews Wesco's existing contract to provide chemical management services to 15 Rockwell Collins sites in the United States and Mexico and expands the offering over time to 12 additional Rockwell Collins sites internationally. Rockwell Collins also utilizes Wesco's proprietary chemical lifecycle management platform, tcmIS®, to track and report its chemical usage and chemical specifications, including compliance with global export regulations.

Declan Grant, Wesco Aircraft's executive vice president and chief commercial officer, said, "We're pleased to build on our more than 14-year relationship with Rockwell Collins. This renewed agreement reflects Wesco's robust value proposition and international reach, and further bolsters our position as one of the world's leading providers of integrated supply chain management services to top-tier companies serving the global aerospace and defense industries. Wesco has the expertise, chemical distribution infrastructure and state-of-the-art chemical lifecycle management platform to help customers manage this complex portion of their supply chain."

About Wesco Aircraft

Wesco Aircraft is one of the world's leading distributors and providers of comprehensive supply chain management services to the global aerospace industry. The company's services range from traditional distribution to the management of supplier relationships, quality assurance, kitting, just-in-time delivery, chemical management services, third-party logistics or fourth-party logistics and point-of-use inventory management. The company believes it offers one of the world's broadest portfolios of aerospace products, including C-class hardware, chemical and electrical and comprised of more than 565,000 active SKUs.

To learn more about Wesco Aircraft, visit our website at www.wescoair.com. Follow Wesco Aircraft on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/wesco-aircraft-corp.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements (including within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) concerning Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc. These statements may discuss goals, intentions and expectations as to future plans, trends, events, results of operations or financial condition, or otherwise, based on current beliefs of management, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. In some cases, readers can identify forward-looking statements by the use of forward-looking terms such as "provide," "expand," or similar words, phrases or expressions. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the company's control. Therefore, the reader should not place undue reliance on such statements.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following: general economic and industry conditions; conditions in the credit markets; changes in military spending; risks unique to suppliers of equipment and services to the U.S. government; risks associated with the company's long-term, fixed-price agreements that have no guarantee of future sales volumes; risks associated with the loss of significant customers, a material reduction in purchase orders by significant customers, or the delay, scaling back or elimination of significant programs on which the company relies; the company's ability to effectively compete in its industry; the company's ability to effectively manage its inventory; the company's suppliers' ability to provide it with the products the company sells in a timely manner, in adequate quantities and/or at a reasonable cost; the company's ability to maintain effective information technology systems; the company's ability to retain key personnel; risks associated with the company's international operations, including exposure to foreign currency movements; risks associated with assumptions the company makes in connection with its critical accounting estimates (including goodwill, excess and obsolete inventory and valuation allowance of the company's deferred tax assets) and legal proceedings; changes in U.S. tax law; changes in trade policies; the company's dependence on third-party package delivery companies; fuel price risks; fluctuations in the company's financial results from period-to-period; environmental risks; risks related to the handling, transportation and storage of chemical products; risks related to the aerospace industry and the regulation thereof; risks related to the company's indebtedness; and other risks and uncertainties.

The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. The reader should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties that affect the company's business, including those described in Wesco Aircraft's Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and other documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements included in this news release (including information included or incorporated by reference herein) are based upon information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Contact Information:
Jeff Misakian
Vice President, Investor Relations
661-362-6847
Jeff.Misakian@wescoair.com 

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