Iomega to Acquire ExcelStor

SAN DIEGO -- Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM) today announced that it has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire ExcelStor Great Wall Technology Limited, a Cayman Islands company, and Shenzhen ExcelStor Technology Limited, a PRC company (collectively, with their subsidiaries, "ExcelStor").

Iomega will issue approximately 84 million shares of common stock in Iomega in exchange for all outstanding ExcelStor common shares, representing in the aggregate 60% of the fully diluted capitalization of Iomega, to be measured as of the closing date. The Boards of Directors of both Iomega and ExcelStor have unanimously approved the share purchase agreement.

ExcelStor designs, develops, manufactures and provides advanced digital storage technologies. Their principal product lines include hard disk drives ("HDD"), security storage and external storage. ExcelStor manufactures certain of Iomega's external HDD products and has manufactured Iomega's REV products since 2004. ExcelStor markets its products primarily to OEMs as an electronics manufacturing services provider and also sells its own ExcelStor-branded products through distributors throughout the world.ExcelStor produces more than 20 million HDD-based devices per year. For its fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, ExcelStor had revenue of US$707.1 million (audited in accordance with U.S. GAAP). For the six month period ended June 30, 2007, ExcelStor had revenue of US$371.3 million (U.S. GAAP).

ExcelStor is a subsidiary of Great Wall Technology Company Limited ("GWT"), a publicly traded company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (0074.HK), headquartered in Beijing, China, which had 2006 revenue of US$2.6 billion.

GWT is engaged in the development and manufacturing of communication products, including computers and related components, portable terminals, software and systems integration, broadband networks and value-added system services. GWT is an indirect subsidiary of China Electronics Corporation ("CEC"), a PRC Government-owned information technology conglomerate which controls more than sixty second level subsidiary companies primarily engaged in the areas of computer and component manufacturing, integrated circuit design and manufacturing, software development and systems integration, telecommunications, consumer electronics design and manufacturing. CEC's affiliates had 2006 revenue of approximately US$16 billion. Upon closing the transaction, GWT and its affiliates will hold approximately 43% of Iomega's common stock, making GWT the largest Iomega shareholder. CEC indirectly owns 62% of GWT.Iomega Corp.