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Name: Avnet Address: 2211 S. 47th St.
City: Phoenix State: Arizona
Employees: 13,000 Year
Established: 1955 CEO: Roy Vallee Product: Electronic Supplier
Avnet
Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM) has opened a 35,000 square foot sales,
logistics/materials management and warehouse
facility in Guadalajara as part of its strategic plan
to increase its services to OEMs and contract manufacturer customers in Mexico.
"Guadalajara is sometimes referred to as
the Silicon Valley of Mexico and is clearly a hub for the electronics industry, with
50-plus OEMs located here," says Beth Ely,
vice president/director, sales, Latin America, for Avnet EM.
"Customers are demanding high
quality, low cost manufacturing, close to their
end markets, which has driven the growth of the electronics sector in Mexico. This trend
has given companies, including Avnet, the opportunity to increase their activities
there. As a result, Avnet has grown its electronic component sales significantly. Last fiscal
year Mexico's sales run rate increased by 191 percent."
The new facility, currently
employing approximately 25 people, serves as a
sales office, a warehouse and device programming center and a base for Avnet Integrated
Material Services (IMS) personnel. IMS is the
supply-chain management arm of Avnet EM and is a premier, global material manager in
the electronics industry supply chain, with fiscal 2000 (year ended June 30, 2000) sales of
$2.6 billion.
"Customers and suppliers with facilities in
Mexico have expressed a need for the same value-added services in this region that
they receive from Avnet in the United States, and
we are very pleased to be able to provide them now," Ely said.
With sales exceeding $8.1 billion,
Avnet Electronics Marketing is the largest
operating group of Phoenix, Arizona-based Avnet,
Inc. and is one of the world's major distributors
of semiconductors, interconnect, passive and electromechanical components from
leading manufacturers. Serving customers in 63 countries, Avnet markets, inventories and
adds value to these products and provides world-class supply-chain management and
engineering design services. Avnet is a Fortune 500
company with sales exceeding $11.5 billion.
The company is a vital link in the chain that
connects suppliers of semiconductors, interconnect products, passive
and electromechanical devices to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that
design and build the electronics equipment for end-market use, and to other industrial customers.
In addition, the company distributes a
variety of computer products to the end user and
the reseller channels. Through its electronic components distribution activities, Avnet
acts as an extension of a supplier's sales force
by marketing products to a larger base of customers than individual suppliers could
do economically.
While many suppliers can only serve a
few hundred of the larger OEMs, Avnet is franchised to sell the products of more
than 100 of the world's leading component manufacturers to a global customer base
of approximately 100,000 OEMs. Electronic components are shipped as received
from Avnet's suppliers, or with assembly or other value added services.
As part of its distribution activities,
Avnet adds various processes that customize
products to meet individual OEM customer specifications, and provides
material management and logistic services. From
1995 through 2000, sales of the company's
electronic components and computer distribution businesses have increased from
approximately $4.30 billion to $9.17 billion, a
compound annual growth rate of 16.35 percent.
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