Segment and Geographic Information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 28, 2015

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 28, 2015			March 29, 2014
Sales:
Global components	$	3,346,763		$	3,421,181
Global ECS	1,655,622			1,660,859
Consolidated	$	5,002,385		$	5,082,040
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	164,895		$	161,146
Global ECS	67,517			64,158
Corporate (a)	(54,978		)	(47,564		)
Consolidated	$	177,434		$	177,740

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $16,196 and $11,614 for the first quarters of 2015 and 2014, respectively.

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:

	March 28, 2015		December 31, 2014
Global components	$	7,007,652	$	6,952,342
Global ECS	3,525,367		4,761,628
Corporate	611,469		721,331
Consolidated	$	11,144,488	$	12,435,301

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended
	March 28, 2015		March 29, 2014
Americas (b)	$	2,462,189	$	2,397,432
EMEA (c)	1,504,924		1,653,912
Asia/Pacific	1,035,272		1,030,696
Consolidated	$	5,002,385	$	5,082,040

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,250,422 and $2,174,665 for the first quarters of 2015 and 2014, respectively.

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

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

	March 28, 2015		December 31, 2014
Americas (d)	$	542,660	$	537,967
EMEA	78,296		76,487
Asia/Pacific	21,676		21,845
Consolidated	$	642,632	$	636,299

(d) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $540,789 and $535,397 at March 28, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively.