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Arrow Electronics
With its Headquarters in Melville, Arrow Electronics is one of the pioneer companies that provide solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and computer products. Through a global network of 260 units located in 55 countries and territories, the company serves as a supply channel partner for more than 600 suppliers and 140,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers. The technical solutions of the company range into including telecommunications, information systems, automotive and transportation, medical and life sciences, industrial equipment and consumer electronics. With 70 years of experience, the innovative technical solutions of the company have carried it forward to this day of its success history. With an amazing technical expertise, every month, the company is able to release thousands of new products in the market that are used by designers and manufacturers ranging from simple home security systems to global telecommunication networks.
History
Arrow Electronics had its humble beginnings in 1935 as a retail store for radio parts in the New York City. The company was incorporated in the year 1946. Arrow Electronics turned as a public enterprise in the year 1961 with two stores and a distribution center. The credit of transforming the company into a larger corporate entity goes to three friends from Harvard Business School named Duke Glenn, Jr., Roger Green and John Waddell who joined the company in 1968. Eventually the company acquired GCS Electronics Division, two refiners of lead Schuylkill Products Company and Schuylkill Lead Corporation. Glenn and Green died in a tragic fire accident twelve years later.
By 1971, the company emerged as one of the nation’s top 10 distributors of electronic equipment. Arrow Electronics acquired National Electrical Supply Company in 1971 and Kay Electric Supply Company in 1973. In 1974, the company developed its own computerized distribution system. In 1976, the company took a strategic decision to quit retail business and concentrate on distribution and refining. Thereon, the company emerged as the fifth largest electronics distributor in the nation. The company acquired Cramer Electronics in the year 1979 and also got listed in the New York Stock exchange.
Company Profile
Arrow Electronics has been listed in the New York Stock exchange with a ticker symbol ARW. The company has more than 260 units worldwide with more than 12,000 employees. The average yearly turn over of the company is around $13.6 billion. The net annual income is around $358.7 million with and operating income of around $622.3 million. The important business units of the company worldwide are Arrow Electronics, Inc., Electronic Components, Arrow Global Components, North American Components, EMEASA (Europe, Middle East, Africa and South America), Asia/Pacific, and Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions.
Awards and Honors
Arrow Electronics has been honored with several awards and recognitions:
- Arrow Electronics is named as a Fortune 200 Company
- The company is listed under Forbes Global 2000 Company
- Arrow Electronics is recognized as one of the most admired companies of FORTUNE 200 Companies
- Ranked among the top 100 of the Information Week 500 for innovative use of information technology during the year 2006
- Ranked by Newsday (2006) as the largest publicly traded company on Long Island
- The company is named by Electronics Supply & Manufacturing - China (ESMC) (2006) as one of the most Preferred Distributors in China
- The company is ranked by CRN (2006) as “Most Sourced Specialty Distributor”
Products
Arrow Electronics, Inc. manufactures a wide range of products in the electronics industry ranging into automotives, banking, communications, consumer products, federal aerospace and defense, instrumentation, life sciences and health care industry, metering, micro controllers, microprocessors, mobile computing, networking, optoelctronics, gaming, power, programmable logic, sensors, analog and linear components, servers, telecommunications, TFTs and LCDs.
Website
Arrow.com site gives a broad general view about the company, its products and services. For any additional information regarding the other units and operational divisions, the sites listed under additional reading may be consulted.
Languages
English
Address
- 50 Marcus Dr
- Melville NY 11747-4210 US
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