IEC Launches New Website and Corporate Branding

NEWARK, NY--(Marketwired - January 06, 2016) - IEC Electronics Corp, (NYSE MKT: IEC) today announced the launch of its new website, designed to emphasize the Company's unique manufacturing solutions for complex life-saving and mission critical products. In addition, the site reflects IEC's strategy to unify its operations under one cohesive brand, capitalizing on enhanced efficiencies to drive industry leading performance. The website may be viewed here: http://www.iec-electronics.com/.

Jeffrey T. Schlarbaum, President & CEO of IEC Electronics commented, "We are very excited to launch our new website which is designed to more effectively represent our portfolio of manufacturing solutions and capabilities. In addition to the website's improved functionality, it also clearly establishes our unified vision for the Company and introduces consistent, updated branding to be used for all of our locations and subsidiaries. As we move forward with our turnaround strategy, it is essential that we align our vison and our branding to reflect IEC's customer-focused philosophy and our unique technical capabilities for solving complex challenges to reduce our customers' supply chain risks."

About IEC Electronics

IEC Electronics is a provider of electronic manufacturing services ("EMS") to advanced technology companies that produce life-saving and mission critical products for the medical, industrial, aerospace and defense sectors. The Company specializes in delivering technical solutions for the custom manufacture of complex full system assemblies by providing on-site analytical testing laboratories, custom design and test engineering services combined with a broad array of manufacturing services encompassing electronics, interconnect solutions, and precision metalworking. As a full service EMS provider, IEC holds all appropriate certifications for the market sectors it supports including ISO 9001:2008, AS9100C, ISO 13485, Nadcap and IPC QML. IEC Electronics is headquartered in Newark, NY and also has operations in Rochester, NY and Albuquerque, NM. Additional information about IEC can be found on its web site at www.iec-electronics.com.

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The following important factors could affect future results and events, causing those results and events to differ materially from those views expressed or implied in the Company's forward-looking statements: the success of strategic initiatives aimed at driving the Company's turnaround; the success of the Company's efforts to enhance its core business; the Company's ability to successfully remediate material weaknesses in the Company's internal controls; litigation and governmental investigations or proceedings arising out of or relating to accounting and financial reporting matters; business conditions and growth or contraction in the Company's customers' industries, the electronic manufacturing services industry and the general economy; variability of the Company's operating results; the Company's ability to control its material, labor and other costs; the Company's ability to manage its assets, including inventory; the Company's dependence on a limited number of major customers; the potential consolidation of the Company's customer base; availability of component supplies; dependence on certain industries; variability and timing of customer requirements; technological, engineering and other start-up issues related to new programs and products, uncertainties as to availability and timing of governmental funding for the Company's customers; the impact of government regulations, including FDA regulations; the types and mix of sales to the Company's customers; the Company's ability to assimilate acquired businesses and to achieve the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions; unforeseen product failures and the potential product liability claims that may be associated with such failures; the availability of capital and other economic, business and competitive factors affecting the Company's customers, its industry and business generally; failure or breach of the Company's information technology systems; and natural disasters. Any one or more of these risks and uncertainties could cause future results or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements. For a further list and description of risks, relevant factors and uncertainties that could cause future results or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements, see the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and the Company's subsequently filed Securities and Exchange Commission reports.

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