Segment and Geographic Information

9 Months Ended

Oct. 01, 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						Nine Months Ended
	October 1, 2016			September 26, 2015			October 1, 2016			September 26, 2015
Sales:
Global components	$	3,904,447		$	3,692,051		$	11,413,348		$	10,736,989
Global ECS	2,031,645			2,006,253			5,969,022			5,793,689
Consolidated	$	5,936,092		$	5,698,304		$	17,382,370		$	16,530,678
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	175,507		$	164,744		$	524,662		$	499,456
Global ECS	96,181			84,233			283,792			250,144
Corporate (a)	(73,004		)	(63,183		)	(204,814		)	(179,429		)
Consolidated	$	198,684		$	185,794		$	603,640		$	570,171

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $24,267 and $61,161 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2016 and $17,756 and $51,099 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2015, respectively.

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:

	October 1, 2016		December 31, 2015
Global components	$	8,153,392	$	7,276,143
Global ECS	4,241,577		5,074,529
Corporate	743,074		671,258
Consolidated	$	13,138,043	$	13,021,930

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended				Nine Months Ended
	October 1, 2016		September 26, 2015		October 1, 2016		September 26, 2015
Americas (b)	$	2,897,810	$	2,850,586	$	8,327,845	$	8,224,901
EMEA (c)	1,548,067		1,591,751		4,990,973		4,761,688
Asia/Pacific	1,490,215		1,255,967		4,063,552		3,544,089
Consolidated	$	5,936,092	$	5,698,304	$	17,382,370	$	16,530,678

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,677,954 and $7,665,313 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2016 and $2,603,885 and $7,557,090 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2015, respectively.

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

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

	October 1, 2016		December 31, 2015
Americas (d)	$	621,175	$	582,973
EMEA	93,318		88,727
Asia/Pacific	36,020		28,478
Consolidated	$	750,513	$	700,178

(d) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $616,741 and $580,791 at October 1, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively.