Segment and Geographic Information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 30, 2013

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 30, 2013			March 31, 2012
Sales:
Global components	$	3,192,580		$	3,349,554
Global ECS	1,657,049			1,539,975
Consolidated	$	4,849,629		$	4,889,529
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	128,280		$	170,708
Global ECS	61,591			55,487
Corporate (a)	(52,319		)	(38,746		)
Consolidated	$	137,552		$	187,449

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $21,610 and $8,243 for the first quarters of 2013 and 2012, respectively.

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:

	March 30, 2013		December 31, 2012
Global components	$	6,580,081	$	6,467,123
Global ECS	3,149,556		3,685,100
Corporate	630,492		633,464
Consolidated	$	10,360,129	$	10,785,687

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended
	March 30, 2013		March 31, 2012
Americas (b)	$	2,486,147	$	2,531,780
EMEA	1,442,171		1,530,027
Asia/Pacific	921,311		827,722
Consolidated	$	4,849,629	$	4,889,529

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,265,377 and $2,300,996 for the first quarters of 2013 and 2012, respectively.

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

	March 30, 2013		December 31, 2012
Americas (c)	$	516,046	$	512,775
EMEA	64,783		65,947
Asia/Pacific	20,710		20,919
Consolidated	$	601,539	$	599,641

(c) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $514,719 and $511,555 at March 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively.