Segment and Geographic Information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 29, 2014

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 29, 2014			March 30, 2013
Sales:
Global components	$	3,421,181		$	3,192,580
Global ECS	1,660,859			1,657,049
Consolidated	$	5,082,040		$	4,849,629
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	161,146		$	128,280
Global ECS	64,158			61,591
Corporate (a)	(47,564		)	(52,319		)
Consolidated	$	177,740		$	137,552

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $11,614 and $21,610 for the first quarters of 2014 and 2013, respectively.

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:

	March 29, 2014		December 31, 2013
Global components	$	6,773,585	$	6,596,255
Global ECS	3,606,986		4,807,400
Corporate	652,345		657,228
Consolidated	$	11,032,916	$	12,060,883

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended
	March 29, 2014		March 30, 2013
Americas (b)	$	2,397,432	$	2,486,147
EMEA	1,653,912		1,442,171
Asia/Pacific	1,030,696		921,311
Consolidated	$	5,082,040	$	4,849,629

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,174,665 and $2,265,377 for the first quarters of 2014 and 2013, respectively.

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

	March 29, 2014		December 31, 2013
Americas (c)	$	537,522	$	526,640
EMEA	82,616		84,383
Asia/Pacific	21,383		21,366
Consolidated	$	641,521	$	632,389

(c) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $535,919 and $525,080 at March 29, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.