Arrow Electronics, Inc. (Arrow) provides products, services, and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions
The company has broadest portfolios of product offerings available from leading electronic components and enterprise computing solutions suppliers. Coupled with a range of services, solutions, and software, the company helps industrial and commercial customers introduce innovative products.
The company has two segments, globa...
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (Arrow) provides products, services, and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions
The company has broadest portfolios of product offerings available from leading electronic components and enterprise computing solutions suppliers. Coupled with a range of services, solutions, and software, the company helps industrial and commercial customers introduce innovative products.
The company has two segments, global components and global ECS. The company distributes electronic components to OEMs and EMS providers through its global components segment and provides enterprise computing solutions to (Value-Added Resellers (VARs) and MSPs through its global ECS reportable segment. The company maintains over 140 sales facilities and 36 distribution and value-added centers, serving over 85 countries.
The company has operations in each of the three largest electronics markets; the Americas; the EMEA; and the Asia/Pacific regions. Arrow’s business strategy is to be the premier, technology-centric, go-to-market and supply chain services company. The company’s portfolio is designed to enable technology across major industries and markets, including industrial automation, edge and cloud computing, smart and connected devices, and transportation to deliver new technologies. Arrow aggregates disparate sources of electronics components, infrastructure software, and IT hardware to engineer complete solutions for customers on behalf of its suppliers.
Global Components
The company’s global components reportable segment markets and distributes electronic components enabled by a comprehensive range of value-added capabilities and services. The company utilizes its vast marketing, integration, and global logistics footprint to provide customers with the ability to deliver the latest semiconductor and IP&E technologies to the market. Along with the help of value-added services and capabilities, such as new product component integration, also known as, demand creation, design engineering services, 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. Most of the company’s customers require delivery of their orders on schedules or volumes that are generally not available directly from manufacturers.
Integration services are designed to provide a full suite of product lifecycle solutions for the company’s customers. Services include design engineering from prototyping to volume production readiness, worldwide logistics and fulfillment capabilities, and scalable manufacturing and customer support.
Supply chain service offerings include procurement, logistics, warehousing, financial management, and insights from data analytics. Arrow provides logistics support and process and systems expertise to improve customer’s supply chain execution, visibility, resilience, and optimization. The company’s supply chain services are intended to serve customers’ direct supply chain and provide fee-based revenue opportunities, targeting the most complex electronics supply chains in the world.
Global ECS
The company’s global ECS reportable segment is a leading value-added provider of comprehensive computing solutions and services. The global ECS portfolio includes datacenter, cloud, security, and analytics solutions. Global ECS brings broad market access, extensive supplier relationships, scale, and resources to help its VARs and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) meet the needs of their end-customers. Global ECS works with VARs and MSPs to tailor complex IT solutions for their end-users. Arrow’s 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.
Global ECS further supports customers by enabling their software and cloud solutions businesses through ArrowSphere, a software and cloud marketplace and management platform. ArrowSphere can help VARs and MSPs to manage, differentiate, and scale their as-a-service businesses. It can simplify the operational complexity of delivering hybrid multi-cloud solutions while providing the business intelligence that IT solution providers need to drive growth. By making software and cloud-based solutions available through ArrowSphere, suppliers can benefit from greater subscription adoption, consumption, and utilization.
Customers
The company and its affiliates serve thousands of industrial and commercial customers. Industrial customers range from major OEMs and EMS providers to small engineering and manufacturing firms, while commercial customers primarily include VARs, MSPs, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Distribution Agreements
As of December 31, 2024, this type of arrangement covered approximately 56% of the company’s consolidated inventories. In addition, under the terms of many such agreements, the company has the right to return to the supplier, for credit, a defined portion of those inventory items purchased within a designated period of time.
Regulations
The company is subject to complex and evolving laws and regulations worldwide that differ among jurisdictions and affect its operations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations, U.S. Customs regulations, and various economic and trade sanctions regulations administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC).
Further, the company is also subject to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, the U.S. domestic bribery statute contained in 18 U.S.C. § 201, and other national and sub-national anti-bribery and anti-money laundering laws in the countries in which it conducts business.
History
Arrow Electronics, Inc. was founded in 1935. The company was incorporated in New York in 1946.