Segment and Geographic Information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment and Geographic Information [Text Block]

Segment and Geographic Information

The company is a global provider of products, services, and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions.  The company distributes electronic components to original equipment manufacturers and contract manufacturers through its global components business segment and provides enterprise computing solutions to value-added resellers through its global ECS business segment.  As a result of the company's philosophy of maximizing operating efficiencies through the centralization of certain functions, selected fixed assets and related depreciation, as well as borrowings, are not directly attributable to the individual operating segments and are included in the corporate business segment.

Sales and operating income (loss), by segment, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended
	March 31, 2012			April 2, 2011
Sales:
Global components	$	3,349,554		$	3,886,600
Global ECS	1,539,975			1,336,403
Consolidated	$	4,889,529		$	5,223,003
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	170,708		$	228,881
Global ECS	55,487			39,080
Corporate (a)	(38,746		)	(48,793		)
Consolidated	$	187,449		$	219,168

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $8,243 and $9,607 for the first quarters of 2012 and 2011, respectively. Also included in the first quarter of 2011 is a charge of $5,875 related to the settlement of a legal matter.

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:

	March 31, 2012		December 31, 2011
Global components	$	6,645,773	$	5,974,174
Global ECS	2,832,709		3,206,788
Corporate	660,266		648,117
Consolidated	$	10,138,748	$	9,829,079

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended
	March 31, 2012		April 2, 2011
Americas (b)	$	2,531,780	$	2,391,801
EMEA (c)	1,530,027		1,816,564
Asia/Pacific	827,722		1,014,638
Consolidated	$	4,889,529	$	5,223,003

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,300,996 and $2,161,349 for the first quarters of 2012 and 2011, respectively.

(c) Defined as Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Net property, plant and equipment, by geographic area, is as follows:

	March 31, 2012		December 31, 2011
Americas (d)	$	483,653	$	479,420
EMEA	59,474		56,552
Asia/Pacific	20,392		20,257
Consolidated	$	563,519	$	556,229

(d) Includes net property, plant and equipment related to the United States of $482,475 and $478,376 at March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively.