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 and managed service providers 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, by segment by geographic area, are as follows:



	Quarter Ended				Six Months Ended
	June 30, 2018		July 1, 2017		June 30, 2018		July 1, 2017
Components:
Americas	$	1,937,882	$	1,700,241	$	3,734,580	$	3,263,786
EMEA (a)	1,447,972		1,192,393		2,926,358		2,310,672
Asia/Pacific	1,898,510		1,569,716		3,553,358		2,946,695
Global components	$	5,284,364	$	4,462,350	$	10,214,296	$	8,521,153

ECS:
Americas	$	1,387,034	$	1,307,245	$	2,582,445	$	2,401,888
EMEA	721,130		652,631		1,471,400		1,235,965
Global ECS	$	2,108,164	$	1,959,876	$	4,053,845	$	3,637,853
Consolidated (b)	$	7,392,528	$	6,422,226	$	14,268,141	$	12,159,006


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


(b)	Includes sales related to the United States of $2,968,469 and $5,618,137 for the second quarter and first six months of 2018 and $2,667,958 and $5,010,086 for the second quarter and first six months of 2017, respectively.

Operating income (loss), by segment, are as follows:



	Quarter Ended						Six Months Ended
	June 30, 2018			July 1, 2017			June 30, 2018			July 1, 2017
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	253,840		$	197,164		$	483,386		$	370,697
Global ECS	109,417			106,761			193,223			188,950
Corporate (c)	(76,430		)	(73,479		)	(153,787		)	(136,176		)
Consolidated	$	286,827		$	230,446		$	522,822		$	423,471


(c)	Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $19,183 and $40,354 for the second quarter and first six months of 2018 and $24,416 and $39,921 for the second quarter and first six months of 2017, respectively, as well as a net loss on the disposition of businesses of $1,562 for the first six months of 2018.

Total assets, by segment, is as follows:



	June 30, 2018		December 31, 2017
Global components	$	11,630,360	$	10,229,168
Global ECS	4,491,916		5,426,675
Corporate	626,532		803,424
Consolidated	$	16,748,808	$	16,459,267

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



	June 30, 2018		December 31, 2017
Americas (d)	$	687,594	$	688,637
EMEA	106,226		108,232
Asia/Pacific	41,981		41,606
Consolidated	$	835,801	$	838,475


(d)	Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $683,460 and $683,988 at June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.