3M

Company Profile

3M is a diversified technology company with a worldwide presence in the following markets: consumer and office; display and graphics; electro and communications; health care; industrial and transportation, and safety, security and protection services.  What makes them so diverse is their ability to apply their technologies – often in combination – to an endless array of customer needs.

1. Worldwide sales                         $22.9 billion
2. International (non US) sales       $14.1 billion (61% of company’s total)
3. Operations in more than 60 countries
4. 3M products sold in early 200 countries
5. More than 75,000 employees
6. Plant locations                             139 worldwide
7. Sales office locations                 188 worldwide

 

Total
Farnell
Newark

eSupplier Summit - delegate: Andrew Lock

 

ADI

Company Profile

Analog Devices Inc. defines innovation and excellence in signal processing.  ADI’s analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (IC) play a fundamental role in converting, conditioning and processing real-world phenomena such as light, sound, temperature, motion, and pressure into electrical signals to be used in a wide array of electronic equipment.       

Over four decades, ADI’s employees, with their insight, tenacity and competitive spirit, have built one of the premier technology companies in the world.

Founded in 1965
Headquarters in Norwood, MA
Revenue $2.57 billion (FY 2006)

 

	YTD Sept FY08	YTD Sept FY07	Difference
Total Global	£3,533,425	£2,934,664	20.4%
Farnell	£1,757,136	£1,658,989	5.9%
Newark	$3,254,371	$2,322,105	40.1%

eSupplier Summit - delegate: Leo McHugh

 

Murata Power Solutions

Company Profile

“Innovator in Electronics”, supports the infrastructure of electronic society by developing new electronic components and technologies. 

Established                            October 1944
Date of incorporation            December 1950
Consolidated sales               566,805 million yen (March 2007)
Employees                             29,392
Head Office                           Toyko
Number of subsidiaries        56

 

Total
Farnell
Newark

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National Semiconductor

Company Profile

National Semiconductor, the industry’s premier analog company, creates high performance analog-intensive solutions that differentiate customers’ products by providing more energy efficiency, precision, portability, better audio and sharper images in electronics systems. 

Founded                                 1959
Headquarters                        Santa Clara, California
Employees                             7,600
Sales FY 2007                      $1.93 billion
Number of products              15,000+

	YTD Sept FY08	YTD Sept FY07	Difference
Total Global	£2,805,122	£2,720,808	3.1%
Farnell	£2,042,328	£1,984,890	2.9%
Newark	$1,328,425	$1,263,390	5.1%

eSupplier Summit - delegate: Alan Hutton

 

STMicroelectronics

Company Profile

STMicroelectronics is one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies with net revenues of US$9.85 billion in 2006 and US$4.69 billion for the first half of 2007.

Company sales are well balanced between the semiconductor industry’s five major high-growth sectors (percentage of ST’s sales in 2007) : Communications (35%), Consumer (17%), Computer (16%), Automotive (16%) and Industrial (16%).

Created in 1987 by the merger of SGS Microelectronica of Italy and Thomson Semiconducteurs of France.  Since its formation, has grown faster than the semiconductor industry as a whole and been one of the world’s Top 10 semiconductor suppliers since 1999.

50,000 employees, 16 advanced R&D units, 39 design and application centers, 15 main manufacturing sites and 78 sales offices in 36 countries.

	YTD Sept FY08	YTD Sept FY07	Difference
Total Global	£2,342,656	£2,202,845	6.3%
Farnell	£2,003,538	£2,023,143	-1.0%
Newark	$   555,798	$   267,501	107.8%

 

Texas Instrument

Company Profile

Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovation DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers’ real world signal processing requirements.  In addition to Semiconductors, the company includes the Education Technology business. 

Headquarters                        Dallas, Texas
Manufacturing, design and sales operations in more than 25 countries
2006 Total Revenue $14.3 billion (Semi’s 13.7 / Education 0.5)
R&D 2006 spend                  $2.20 billion
Capital Expenditure              $1.27 billion
Employees                             31,000 worldwide                

 

	YTD Sept FY08	YTD Sept FY07	Difference
Total Global	£5,267,029	£4,756,206	10.7%
Farnell	£2,498,365	£2,306,757	8.3%
Newark	$5,002,844	$4,432,544	12.9%