Segment and Geographic Information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 30, 2019

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 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
	March 30, 2019		March 31, 2018
Components:
Americas	$	1,907,029	$	1,796,698
EMEA (a)	1,503,366		1,478,386
Asia/Pacific	1,781,532		1,654,848
Global components	$	5,191,927	$	4,929,932

ECS:
Americas	$	1,200,907	$	1,195,411
EMEA (a)	763,157		750,270
Global ECS	$	1,964,064	$	1,945,681
Consolidated (b)	$	7,155,991	$	6,875,613


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


(b)	Includes sales related to the United States of $2,782,035 and $2,649,668 for the first quarter of 2019 and 2018, respectively.

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



	Quarter Ended
	March 30, 2019			March 31, 2018
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	234,532		$	229,546
Global ECS	86,718			83,806
Corporate (c)	(75,690		)	(77,357		)
Consolidated	$	245,560		$	235,995


(c)	Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $11,660 and $21,171 for the first quarter of 2019 and 2018, respectively. Also included in the first quarter of 2019 and 2018 was a net loss on the disposition of businesses of $866 and $1,562, respectively.

Total assets, by segment, is as follows:



	March 30, 2019		December 31, 2018
Global components	$	11,479,107	$	11,425,579
Global ECS	4,567,305		5,632,102
Corporate	784,340		726,764
Consolidated	$	16,830,752	$	17,784,445

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



	March 30, 2019		December 31, 2018
Americas (d)	$	659,608	$	673,228
EMEA	119,105		110,996
Asia/Pacific	40,891		40,476
Consolidated	$	819,604	$	824,700

(d)

Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $656,736 and $670,201 at March 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.