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Segment and Geographic Information | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2012
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, are as follows:
|  | Quarter Ended
|  | March 31, 2012 |  | April 2, 2011
Sales: |  |  |  |
Global components |  | $ | 3,349,554 |  |  | $ | 3,886,600 |
Global ECS |  | 1,539,975 |  |  | 1,336,403 |
Consolidated |  | $ | 4,889,529 |  |  | $ | 5,223,003 |
Operating income (loss): |  |  |  |  |  |
Global components |  | $ | 170,708 |  |  | $ | 228,881 |
Global ECS |  | 55,487 |  |  | 39,080 |
Corporate (a) |  | (38,746 | ) |  | (48,793 | )
Consolidated |  | $ | 187,449 |  |  | $ | 219,168 |
(a) | Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $8,243 and $9,607 for the first quarters of 2012 and 2011, respectively. Also included in the first quarter of 2011 is a charge of $5,875 related to the settlement of a legal matter.
Total assets, by segment, are as follows:
|  | March 31, 2012 |  | December 31, 2011
Global components |  | $ | 6,645,773 |  |  | $ | 5,974,174 |
Global ECS |  | 2,832,709 |  |  | 3,206,788 |
Corporate |  | 660,266 |  |  | 648,117 |
Consolidated |  | $ | 10,138,748 |  |  | $ | 9,829,079 |
Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:
|  | Quarter Ended
|  | March 31, 2012 |  | April 2, 2011
Americas (b) |  | $ | 2,531,780 |  |  | $ | 2,391,801 |
EMEA (c) |  | 1,530,027 |  |  | 1,816,564 |
Asia/Pacific |  | 827,722 |  |  | 1,014,638 |
Consolidated |  | $ | 4,889,529 |  |  | $ | 5,223,003 |
(b) | Includes sales related to the United States of $2,300,996 and $2,161,349 for the first quarters of 2012 and 2011, respectively.
(c) | Defined as Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Net property, plant and equipment, by geographic area, is as follows:
|  | March 31, 2012 |  | December 31, 2011
Americas (d) |  | $ | 483,653 |  |  | $ | 479,420 |
EMEA |  | 59,474 |  |  | 56,552 |
Asia/Pacific |  | 20,392 |  |  | 20,257 |
Consolidated |  | $ | 563,519 |  |  | $ | 556,229 |
(d) | Includes net property, plant and equipment related to the United States of $482,475 and $478,376 at March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8595-108599 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 10 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8538-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 33 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8971-108599 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 34 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8981-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 29 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8864-108599 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8380-108599 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 35 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8984-108599 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 41 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9038-108599 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) -Number 131 -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy. Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8906-108599 Reference 12: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 26 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8844-108599 Reference 13: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 40 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9031-108599 Reference 14: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 42 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9054-108599 Reference 15: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 31 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8924-108599 + Details
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