Segment and Geographic Information

3 Months Ended

Apr. 02, 2016

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 2, 2016			March 28, 2015
Sales:
Global components	$	3,675,929		$	3,346,763
Global ECS	1,798,248			1,655,622
Consolidated	$	5,474,177		$	5,002,385
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	170,770		$	164,895
Global ECS	78,212			67,517
Corporate (a)	(67,618		)	(54,978		)
Consolidated	$	181,364		$	177,434

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $20,788 and $16,196 for the first quarters of 2016 and 2015, respectively.

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:

	April 2, 2016		December 31, 2015
Global components	$	7,561,662	$	7,276,143
Global ECS	4,105,308		5,074,529
Corporate	685,817		671,258
Consolidated	$	12,352,787	$	13,021,930

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended
	April 2, 2016		March 28, 2015
Americas (b)	$	2,620,477	$	2,462,189
EMEA (c)	1,665,880		1,504,924
Asia/Pacific	1,187,820		1,035,272
Consolidated	$	5,474,177	$	5,002,385

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,396,063 and $2,250,422 for the first quarters of 2016 and 2015, respectively.

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

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

	April 2, 2016		December 31, 2015
Americas (d)	$	602,643	$	582,973
EMEA	92,408		88,727
Asia/Pacific	30,269		28,478
Consolidated	$	725,320	$	700,178

(d) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $599,808 and $580,791 at April 2, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively.