Segment and Geographic Information

3 Months Ended

Apr. 01, 2017

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
	April 1, 2017			April 2, 2016
Sales:
Global components	$	4,058,803		$	3,675,929
Global ECS	1,700,749			1,798,248
Consolidated	$	5,759,552		$	5,474,177
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	173,533		$	170,770
Global ECS	80,879			78,212
Corporate (a)	(62,690		)	(67,618		)
Consolidated	$	191,722		$	181,364

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $15,505 and $20,788 for the first quarters of 2017 and 2016, respectively.

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:

	April 1, 2017		December 31, 2016
Global components	$	8,561,728	$	8,360,926
Global ECS	4,096,249		5,053,172
Corporate	761,398		792,268
Consolidated	$	13,419,375	$	14,206,366

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended
	April 1, 2017		April 2, 2016
Americas (b)	$	2,642,988	$	2,620,477
EMEA (c)	1,685,841		1,665,880
Asia/Pacific	1,430,723		1,187,820
Consolidated	$	5,759,552	$	5,474,177

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,378,480 and $2,396,063 for the first quarter of 2017 and 2016, respectively.

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

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

	April 1, 2017		December 31, 2016
Americas (d)	$	658,135	$	631,386
EMEA	92,333		90,834
Asia/Pacific	36,128		34,079
Consolidated	$	786,596	$	756,299

(d) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $653,648 and $626,964 at April 1, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively.