New Horizons Computer Learning Centers Selected as a Finalist for the 2012 Microsoft Learning Competency Marketing Excellence

  New Horizons Computer Learning Centers Selected as a Finalist for the 2012
  Microsoft Learning Competency Marketing Excellence Partner of the Year Award

Business Wire

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. -- July 05, 2012

Today,  New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, the world’s largest
independent IT training company, announced it was selected as a finalist for
the Microsoft Learning Competency Marketing Excellence Partner of the Year
Award.

“We are honored to receive this recognition from Microsoft,” said Earle Pratt,
Chief Executive Officer of New Horizons Worldwide. “As Microsoft’s largest
training partner, delivering over 40% of all authorized training worldwide,
New Horizons always strives to align our efforts with Microsoft to empower
people around the world to succeed through learning.”

Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set
of nearly 3,000 entrants worldwide. The Learning Competency Marketing
Excellence Partner of the Year Award celebrates the Learning Partner that
practiced leading-edge marketing and sales activities to drive skills and
certification growth. New Horizons was selected as one of only three finalists
among the nearly 3,000 submissions. The three companies selected as finalists
demonstrated exceptional performance in market share shift from gray market
content to official Microsoft Learning products, led the certification
community, reached net new markets, or experienced significant growth in
training market share. They also demonstrated alignment with advancing
adoption and deployment of Microsoft technologies through training and
certification, according to Microsoft.

“We are proud to recognize our 2012 Partner Award finalists for their
outstanding commitments to solving customer challenges,” said Jon Roskill,
corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “Our
partners are critical to our success as a company, and it is their creativity
and innovative thinking in solving the unique needs of our customers that
serves as the foundation for mutual, long-term success. We congratulate this
year’s finalists on their achievements and look forward to following their
continued success in the future.”

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed
and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the past year.

In addition to the Microsoft Learning Competency Marketing Excellence Partner
of the Year Award finalist designation, New Horizons celebrates its 30^th
Anniversary in 2012. Through the years, New Horizons has trained over 30
million people worldwide, and transformed thousands of businesses.

About New Horizons Computer Learning Centers

With over 300 centers in 70 countries, U.S. based New Horizons Worldwide Inc.
is the world’s largest I.T. training company. Through an integrated learning
approach that ensures new knowledge can be applied to real-life situations,
New Horizons offers a wide range of technology, applications, and business
skills training from basic application and desktop productivity tools to
complex and integrated business systems. New Horizons continues to expand its
offerings, locations, and solutions to meet the growing demands placed on
organizations and their employees. New Horizons is certified as a Microsoft
Partner with a Gold Learning competency, Cisco Partner for Learning Solutions,
CompTIA Authorized Partner, and VMware Authorized Training Center. For more
information, visit our global website at www.newhorizons.com.

Contact:

New Horizons Computer Learning Centers
Mark Tucker, 714-940-8000
mark.tucker@newhorizons.com