Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM) 1600 East St. Andrew Place Santa Ana, CA 92705-4931 Phone: (714) 566-1000 Fax: (714) 568-0138 http://www.ingrammicro.com
Ingram Micro Inc began business in 1979, operating as Micro D Inc., a California corporation. Ingram Micro, a Fortune 100 company, is the global information technology wholesale distributor by net sales, providing sales, marketing, and logistics services for the IT industry worldwide. The Company provides a vital link in the IT supply chain by generating demand and developing markets for its technology partners. While it remains focused on continuing to build its IT distribution business, it is developing an increasing presence in adjacent technology categories, such as automatic identification and data capture; point-of-sale; managed, professional and warranty maintenance services; and consumer electronics to broaden its product lines and market presence. Ingram Micro creates value in the market by extending the reach of its technology partners, capturing market share for resellers and suppliers, creating innovative solutions comprised of both technology products and services, offering credit, and providing efficient fulfillment of IT products and services. With a range of products and an array of services, the Company creates operating efficiencies for its partners around the world. Ingram Micro's reseller customers are distinguished by the end-user market they serve, such as corporate accounts, mid-market, SMBs, or home users, and by the level of value they add to the basic products they sell. The Company conducts business with most of the resellers of IT products and services around the world. Ingram Micro's continued expansion in adjacent markets, such as AIDC/POS, has generated opportunities to expand sales in its current customer reseller base, as well as add new reseller customers. The Company distributes and markets hundreds of thousands of technology products worldwide from the industry's premier computer hardware suppliers, networking equipment suppliers, software publishers, and other suppliers of computer peripherals, CE, AIDC/POS and mobility hardware worldwide. Product assortments vary by market, and the suppliers' relative contribution to its sales also varies from country to country. On a worldwide basis, the Company revenue mix by product category has remained relatively stable over the past several years, although it might fluctuate between and within different operating regions. Ingram Micro defines its systems category as self-standing computer systems capable of functioning independently. The Company offers a variety of systems, such as rack, tower and blade servers; desktops; portable personal computers; and personal digital assistants. Ingram Micro defines its software category as a variety of applications containing computer instructions or data that could be stored electronically. The Company offers a variety of software products, such as business application software, operating system software, entertainment software, middleware, developer software tools, security software and storage software. The Company's networking category includes networking hardware, communication products and network security hardware. Networking hardware includes switches, hubs, routers, wireless local area networks, wireless wide area networks, network interface cards, cellular data cards, network-attached storage and storage area networks. Ingram Micro offers fee-based services as well as services that could be provided along with its product sales. Ingram Micro's fee-based services include supply chain services to suppliers and customers desiring to outsource specific supply chain functions through its Ingram Micro Logistics division in North America and existing business units in other regions. The Company Employ sales representatives worldwide who assist resellers with product and solution specifications, system configuration, new product/service introductions, pricing, and availability. Ingram Micro competes against broad-based IT distributors such as Tech Data and Synnex Corporation.
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