Vishay Precision Group Retains Wall Street Communications as Public Relations and Marcom Agency


SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwire - August 26, 2010) -  Wall Street Communications today announced that it has been retained by Vishay Precision Group (NYSE: VPG), which produces sensors based on resistive foil technology, as well as sensor-based systems. Providing vertically integrated products and solutions for growing markets in the areas of stress measurement, industrial weighing, and manufacturing process control, VPG operated as a part of Vishay Intertechnology until July 6, 2010, when it was spun off as an independent, publicly traded company.

Wall Street Communications is providing VPG with marketing communications and public relations services addressed at the worldwide trade media covering VPG products. VPG is organized into five product groups.

Vishay Foil Resistors produces the most precise and stable type of resistors available. VPG's Bulk Metal Foil® resistive products are used in applications requiring a high degree of precision and stability, such as medical testing equipment, high-performance audio equipment, precision measuring instruments, and aerospace and military applications.

Micro-Measurements manufactures sensors for high-precision strain measurement that are used throughout the industrialized world, both in the practice of stress measurements analysis and as the sensing elements in a wide variety of transducers for measuring physical variables (weight, force, torque, pressure, etc.). Micro-Measurements offers a full complement of sensors, strain gages, PhotoStress® equipment and coatings, data acquisition systems, and supplies necessary to obtain accurate, reliable stress data.

VPG Transducers includes products from the Tedea-Huntleigh, Sensortronics, Revere, and Celtron brands, which have been providing weighing and force measurement products for decades. VPG Transducers load cells integrate Micro-Measurements strain gages and are used in industrial, agricultural, medical, and many other applications.

VPG Process Weighing designs and manufactures high-performance products and turnkey solutions for process weighing and force measurement. Comprising the BLH and Nobel Weighing Systems brands, VPG Process Weighing systems integrate products from Micro-Measurements, Vishay Foil Resistors, and VPG Transducers and serve a wide range of industries, including chemicals, steel, food processing, and pharmaceuticals.

VPG On-Board Weighing provides solutions for on-board vehicle payload control and overload protection through its PM Onboard and SI Onboard brands. Integrating products from Micro-Measurements, Vishay Foil Resistors, and VPG Transducers, products from VPG On-Board Weighing are used in the forestry, waste management, aircraft, and aggregate markets.

About Wall Street Communications
Since 1996, Wall Street Communications has offered marketing communications services for an international range of clients in the electronic media technology industry. With fundamental operating principles of accuracy, creativity, and integrity, the agency has a unique range of experience in promoting products and technologies from the component level to the level of the professional user. Wall Street maintains corporate headquarters in Salt Lake City and satellite offices throughout North America and Europe. More information is available at www.wallstcom.com.

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