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Anixter International is a company based in Glenview, Illinois, USA and founded in 1957. The company supplies communications and security products, electrical and electronic wire and cable, fasteners and other small components. Anixter is a Fortune 500 company,〔(Anixter Profile on Fortune 500 List )〕 with more than of warehouse space. In 2011, the company had $6.15 billion in revenue, operating in 260 cities in 50 countries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Anixter, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Feb 27, 2012 )〕 It is headquartered in Glenview, Illinois, and operates about 300 warehouses and sales centers in more than 50 countries.〔http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/company-profile.Anixter_International_Inc.b4978e991e7ba7b5.html〕 It sells 450,000-plus products, including electrical and electronic wire, cable,fasteners and security system components to some 100,000 customers, including original equipment manufacturers, engineers, contractors, installers, and wholesale distributors.〔http://www.answers.com/topic/anixter-international-inc-1〕 The company operates with three major divisions: *Enterprise Cable & Security Solutions *Electrical and Electronic Wire & Cable *Fasteners (Aerospace Hardware, once considered the fourth division, was sold by Anixter in 2011 to Greenbriar Equity for $155.0 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Anixter, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Oct 25, 2011 )〕() Anixter's labs include the Infrastructure Solutions Lab, Aerospace Hardware Quality Lab and Fasteners Quality Labs. Anixter's Aerospace Hardware Quality Lab holds ISO9001:2000,〔http://www.anixter.com/AXECOM/AXEDocLib.nsf/0/4DPB66WK/$file/ISO9001certification10002220QM.pdf?openelement〕 Boeing-D14426, AS9000 and AS9100,〔http://www.anixter.com/AXECOM/AXEDocLib.nsf/0/N75LU0ZR/$file/AS9100certification10002220ASH.pdf?openelement〕 FAA AC00-56, and NADCAP certifications. Through "Quality Labs", Anixter Fasteners provides routine inspection of customers’ products, full metallurgical evaluations and failure investigations. In 2002 Anixter was named as a Forbes "Platinum 400" company,chosen by the magazine's editors as one of America's"best-performing" corporations by industry.〔http://www.hoovers.com/company/Anixter_International_Inc/rfxfsi-1-1njhxk.html〕 In 2013, Fortune ranked Anixter 405 in the Fortune 500 list.〔 Revenue for 2012 was at $6.2 billion.〔http://www.hoovers.com/company/Anixter_International_Inc/rfxfsi-1-1njhy8.html〕 ==Early History== Anixter was started in 1957 by brothers Alan and Bill Anixter. Known originally as Anixter Brothers, the two opened Anixter as a wholesale distribution company that bought cable by the mile and sold it by the foot. The two brothers received a $10,000 loan from their mother to get the business started, and within 10 years, Anixter Brothers snapped up other companies and grew revenue to $10 million.〔 In 1969,Anixter moved its headquarters to Skokie and continued to buy assets. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Allan Anixter said he carried a list of acquisitions in his pocket, and by the end of the 1960s, Anixter acquired 19 companies.〔 Anixter went public on the American Stock Exchange in1967 and became international with expansion to the U.K. in 1972. In 1975,Anixter gained a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, and by the end of the 1970s it had $268 million in sales and 38 warehouses in the U.S., nine in Canada, three in the U.K. and one in the Netherlands.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anixter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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