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* National Education Corp. has won exclusive distribution rights in the United States for business-training programs created by Wilson Learning Corp. of Minneapolis, the companies announced Wednesday.

The programs offer adult instruction in topics ranging from math skills to telephone courtesy to leadership techniques, said Jack Polley, a spokesman for Irvine-based NEC, which is the nation’s largest technical training company. He said that Wilson, which has annual sales of more than $25 million, will distribute its programs through an NEC subsidiary, Applied Learning International of Naperville, Ill.

Polley would not disclose the value of the deal.