Segment and Geographic Information

6 Months Ended

Jun. 29, 2013

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						Six Months Ended
	June 29, 2013			June 30, 2012			June 29, 2013			June 30, 2012
Sales:
Global components	$	3,398,690		$	3,453,687		$	6,591,270		$	6,803,241
Global ECS	1,907,395			1,696,876			3,564,444			3,236,851
Consolidated	$	5,306,085		$	5,150,563		$	10,155,714		$	10,040,092
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	140,158		$	170,524		$	268,438		$	341,232
Global ECS	80,722			65,961			142,313			121,448
Corporate (a)	(65,005		)	(47,796		)	(117,324		)	(86,542		)
Consolidated	$	155,875		$	188,689		$	293,427		$	376,138

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $30,224 and $51,834 for the second quarter and first six months of 2013 and $13,347 and $21,590 for the second quarter and first six months of 2012, respectively.

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:

	June 29, 2013		December 31, 2012
Global components	$	6,685,880	$	6,467,123
Global ECS	3,184,884		3,685,100
Corporate	636,957		633,464
Consolidated	$	10,507,721	$	10,785,687

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended				Six Months Ended
	June 29, 2013		June 30, 2012		June 29, 2013		June 30, 2012
Americas (b)	$	2,760,625	$	2,703,706	$	5,246,772	$	5,235,486
EMEA (c)	1,490,123		1,488,294		2,932,294		3,018,321
Asia/Pacific	1,055,337		958,563		1,976,648		1,786,285
Consolidated	$	5,306,085	$	5,150,563	$	10,155,714	$	10,040,092

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,541,786 and $4,807,163 for the second quarter and first six months of 2013 and $2,493,567 and $4,794,563 for the second quarter and first six months of 2012, respectively.

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

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

	June 29, 2013		December 31, 2012
Americas (d)	$	515,175	$	512,775
EMEA	69,351		65,947
Asia/Pacific	20,643		20,919
Consolidated	$	605,169	$	599,641

(d) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $513,598 and $511,555 at June 29, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively.