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Avnet, Inc. is a Business-to-business technology distributor headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Electronics Supply & Manufacturing magazine reports that Avnet Inc., a Fortune 500 company, may be the world's largest franchised distributor of electronic components and subsystems. Avnet has more than 50 centers and locations in more than 34 countries.〔 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Avnet ) "2007 Rank # 172"〕〔 "...services with locations in more than 34 countries."〕 ==History== In 1921, Charles Avnet, a 33-year-old Russian immigrant, began buying surplus radio parts and selling them to the public on the Radio Rows of United States port cities. In the mid-1920s, when factory-made radios began to replace radio parts, Avnet adjusted his distribution pipeline and began selling parts to manufacturers and dealers. During the Great Depression, Avnet shifted the focus from retailing to wholesaling.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = Avnet )〕 In the mid-1920s to the early 1930s, Avnet diversified by branching out into car radio kits and automobile assembly kits. In World War II Avnet made antennas for the U.S. armed forces. His son, Lester Avnet, joined the business at that time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = Avnet )〕 Avnet was incorporated in 1955. In 1956 a second connector assembly plant was opened near Los Angeles for the aircraft industry. In 1959 the company went public on the American Stock Exchange. In the mid-1960s Avnet briefly owned several record labels including Liberty Records and Blue Note. Over the next ten years Avnet expanded with several acquisitions in the new fields of semiconductors, relays, and potentiometers.〔 It also became a value-added distributor of IT products, and the largest customer/partner of IBM. CEO leaders since the 1970s for Avnet have included Tony Hamilton, Leon Machiz, Roy Vallee, and Rick Hamada (current). Under Vallee the company acquired 60 companies and grew globally. The company relocated its corporate headquarters to Phoenix (from Great Neck, NY) in 1998. In July 2010, the company purchased Bell Microelectronics for $631M, at the time the largest acquisition in the company's history. It celebrated 50 years on the NYSE in December 2010; only 350 companies have been listed that long. 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「Avnet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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