Segment and Geographic Information (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment [Text Block]

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.

Reconciliation of Assets from Segment to Consolidated [Text Block]

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

Schedule Of Revenues From External Customers And Long Lived Assets By Geographical Areas Table [Text Block]

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.

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of information concerning material long-lived assets (excluding financial instruments, customer relationships with financial institutions, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred taxes assets) located in identified geographic areas and/or the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to that country from which revenue is material. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries.

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- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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