Segment and Geographic Information

9 Months Ended

Sep. 27, 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						Nine Months Ended
	September 27, 2014			September 28, 2013			September 27, 2014			September 28, 2013
Sales:
Global components	$	3,731,289		$	3,467,285		$	10,721,814		$	10,058,555
Global ECS	1,881,927			1,580,926			5,649,981			5,145,370
Consolidated	$	5,613,216		$	5,048,211		$	16,371,795		$	15,203,925
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	179,451		$	164,096		$	500,239		$	432,534
Global ECS	69,172			59,757			229,320			202,070
Corporate (a)	(48,807		)	(61,117		)	(143,734		)	(178,441		)
Consolidated	$	199,816		$	162,736		$	585,825		$	456,163

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $3,935 and $25,181 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2014 and $22,568 and $74,402 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2013, respectively.

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:

	September 27, 2014		December 31, 2013
Global components	$	7,129,457	$	6,596,255
Global ECS	3,547,180		4,807,400
Corporate	634,889		657,228
Consolidated	$	11,311,526	$	12,060,883

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended				Nine Months Ended
	September 27, 2014		September 28, 2013		September 27, 2014		September 28, 2013
Americas (b)	$	2,775,146	$	2,621,398	$	7,975,204	$	7,868,170
EMEA	1,568,277		1,355,152		4,984,150		4,287,446
Asia/Pacific	1,269,793		1,071,661		3,412,441		3,048,309
Consolidated	$	5,613,216	$	5,048,211	$	16,371,795	$	15,203,925

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,540,179 and $7,296,753 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2014 and $2,405,238 and $7,212,401 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2013, respectively.

Property, plant, and equipment, net, by geographic area, is as follows:

	September 27, 2014		December 31, 2013
Americas (c)	$	533,235	$	526,640
EMEA	79,085		84,383
Asia/Pacific	22,391		21,366
Consolidated	$	634,711	$	632,389

(c) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $530,973 and $525,080 at September 27, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.