Segment and Geographic Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 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, for the years ended December 31 are as follows:

	2016			2015			2014
Sales:
Global components	$	15,408,839		$	14,405,793		$	14,313,026
Global ECS	8,416,422			8,876,227			8,455,648
Consolidated	$	23,825,261		$	23,282,020		$	22,768,674
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	686,466		$	649,396		$	653,992
Global ECS	441,803			424,063			389,571
Corporate (a)	(269,730		)	(248,977		)	(281,306		)
Consolidated	$	858,539		$	824,482		$	762,257

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $73,602, $68,765, and $39,841 in 2016, 2015, and 2014, respectively. Also included is a non-cash impairment charge associated with discontinuing the use of a trade name of $78,000 in 2014.

Total assets, by segment, at December 31 are as follows:

	2016		2015
Global components	$	8,360,926	$	7,276,143
Global ECS	5,053,172		5,074,529
Corporate	792,268		671,258
Consolidated	$	14,206,366	$	13,021,930

Sales, by geographic area, for the years ended December 31 are as follows:

	2016		2015		2014
Americas (b)	$	11,442,690	$	11,721,528	$	11,340,277
EMEA	6,772,685		6,788,738		6,864,104
Asia/Pacific	5,609,886		4,771,754		4,564,293
Consolidated	$	23,825,261	$	23,282,020	$	22,768,674

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $10,501,131, $10,761,932, and $10,359,936 in 2016, 2015, and 2014, respectively.

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

	2016		2015
Americas (c)	$	631,386	$	582,973
EMEA	90,834		88,727
Asia/Pacific	34,079		28,478
Consolidated	$	756,299	$	700,178

(c) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $626,964 and $580,791 at December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.