Arrow Electronics Inc's Business Segments

Arrow Electronics, Inc. is a global provider of products, services, and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. The company has one of the world’s broadest portfolios of product offerings available from leading electronic components and enterprise computing solutions suppliers, coupled with a range of services, solutions and tools that help industrial and commercial customers introduce innovative products, reduce their time to market, and enhance their overall competitiveness. Arrow was incorporated in New York in 1946 and serves over 125,000 customers.

Global Components

Global components markets and distributes electronic components and provides a comprehensive range of value-added capabilities throughout the entire life cycle of technology products and services. The company provides customers with the ability to deliver the latest technologies to the market through design engineering, global marketing and integration, global logistics, and supply chain management. The company offers the convenience of accessing, from a single source, multiple technologies and products from its suppliers with rapid or scheduled deliveries. Additionally, the company offers expertise in reverse logistics, asset management, and asset recovery to maximize value at the end of a product’s life cycle. Most of the companys customers require delivery of their orders on schedules or volumes that are generally not available on direct purchases from manufacturers.

As one of the largest providers of electronic components and related services in the world, global components covers the worlds largest electronics markets - the Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and Asia Pacific regions. The Americas include operations in Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States. In the EMEA region, the global components business segment operates in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. In the Asia Pacific region, the global components business segment operates in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Over the past three years, the global components business segment completed 14 strategic acquisitions to broaden its product and service offerings, to further expand its geographic reach in the Asia Pacific region, and to increase its digital capabilities to meet the evolving needs of customers and suppliers. These acquisitions also expanded the companys global components business segments portfolio of products and services across the full product lifecycle including new product development, reverse logistics, and electronics asset disposition.

Global ECS

The companys global ECS business segment is a leading value-added provider of comprehensive computing solutions and services. Global ECS’ portfolio of computing solutions includes datacenter, cloud, security, and analytics solutions. Global ECS brings broad market access, extensive supplier relationships, scale and resources to help its VARs meet the needs of their end-users. Global ECS works with VARs to tailor complex IT solutions for their end-users. Customers have access to various services including engineering and integration support, warehousing and logistics, marketing resources, and authorized hardware and software training. Global ECS’ suppliers benefit from demand creation, speed to market, and efficient supply chain management. For these suppliers, global ECS is the aggregation point to over 20,000 VARs.

Global ECS operates in 32 countries around the world, largely in the Americas, EMEA, and the Asia Pacific regions. The Americas include operations in the United States, Canada, and Brazil. In the EMEA region, the global ECS business segment operates in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. The Asia Pacific region includes offices in Australia, India, and New Zealand.