Segment and Geographic Information

9 Months Ended

Sep. 28, 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						Nine Months Ended
	September 28, 2013			September 29, 2012			September 28, 2013			September 29, 2012
Sales:
Global components	$	3,467,285		$	3,372,117		$	10,058,555		$	10,175,358
Global ECS	1,580,926			1,590,214			5,145,370			4,827,065
Consolidated	$	5,048,211		$	4,962,331		$	15,203,925		$	15,002,423
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	164,096		$	155,061		$	432,534		$	496,293
Global ECS	59,757			55,273			202,070			176,721
Corporate (a)	(61,117		)	(46,517		)	(178,441		)	(133,059		)
Consolidated	$	162,736		$	163,817		$	456,163		$	539,955

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $22,568 and $74,402 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2013 and $14,562 and $36,152 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2012, respectively.

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:

	September 28, 2013		December 31, 2012
Global components	$	6,873,955	$	6,467,123
Global ECS	2,858,255		3,685,100
Corporate	633,839		633,464
Consolidated	$	10,366,049	$	10,785,687

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended				Nine Months Ended
	September 28, 2013		September 29, 2012		September 28, 2013		September 29, 2012
Americas (b)	$	2,621,398	$	2,562,485	$	7,868,170	$	7,797,971
EMEA (c)	1,355,152		1,322,837		4,287,446		4,341,158
Asia/Pacific	1,071,661		1,077,009		3,048,309		2,863,294
Consolidated	$	5,048,211	$	4,962,331	$	15,203,925	$	15,002,423

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,405,238 and $7,212,401 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2013 and $2,370,154 and $7,164,717 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2012, respectively.

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

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

	September 28, 2013		December 31, 2012
Americas (d)	$	522,039	$	512,775
EMEA	74,007		65,947
Asia/Pacific	20,499		20,919
Consolidated	$	616,545	$	599,641

(d) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $520,485 and $511,555 at September 28, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively.