According to the latest EETimes' incomplete statistics and rank, it lists the rank of global electronic component distributors, most of which are North America distributors. There are still many distributors which have large scale distributors without being in the list because of difficult textual research in global including China mainland since many distributors are not operated by listed company. But the rank higher data among the Top25 list still have high credibility.
Avnet and Arrow are each maintaining the first and second place as the two biggest electronic components distributors. This two companies share the alike financial index mostly, like the twins. There are no gaps between their business income growth rates, gross profit margin, share price, P/E Ratio and market shares. Purchasers can almost select any of them, which may have no big difference.
The distributors like Avnet and Arrow prefer to give up the low profit rate business not absorbing extra cost anymore. Distributors impersonally undertake many biggest and hardest problems. They are accused many times because of deficient insight, fake products and imbalance supply and demand. Many enterprises are bothered by those issues during the past circle of ups and downs. To cope with those problems, distributors invest capital to develop, purchase the solution plan to reinforce production rate, anti-counterfeiting test equipment and product life time management software. Actually many distributors' ability to solve supply chain problem is better than OEM and EMS provider.
But where is the global distribution market going? Whether there is existing global distribution market and if they are still seriously depending regional supports. There are no unified answers according to EBN/EE Times' latest global 25 biggest distributor ranks. Distribution market has already matured in North America and Europe, but still abstracted and unsure in other regions.
After intense merger and acquisition of North America market, at last the situation is a few big distributors dominating the whole industry and small size enterprise doing the leftover small business. In Japan, components distribution market is still subsidiary to its enterprise group system. Under this system, Japan's leading electronic OEM manufacturers decide on which distributors to grow stronger and which distributors can never break get rid of a small shop run by husband and wife.
In China, the market is more chaotic with thousands of distributors trying to build obviously leading position. But even in China, leading western distributor and WPG Holdings also make use of the relation with foreign equipment manufacturers and contractors to be the main role. Apparently, China market has already owned the integrated condition. Big distributor entering into this market of past ten years will at last accelerate this process.
Generally speaking, components distributors are in the core position in electronic supply chain like traffic commander delivering components and service from suppliers to contract manufacturers and OEM manufactures rapidly and efficiently. They are more and more important, but sometimes people still take them as small role.
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