Organization Overview: Arrow Electronics Inc

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Arrow Electronics (NYSE: ARW) is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Melville, New York. The company specializes in distribution and value added services relating to electronic components and computer products. The company started in 1935 as a retail store for radio parts on New York City's Radio Row in Lower Manhattan, and incorporated in 1946. In 1961, Arrow went public, with two stores and a distribution center. Three friends from Harvard Business School — Duke Glenn, Jr., Roger Green and John Waddell — began in 1968 to transform the stores into a much larger corporate entity, acquiring GCS Electronics Division, and two refiners of lead (necessary for components), Schuylkill Products Company and Schuylkill Lead Corporation. Glenn and Green would die in a tragic accident twelve...

Freebase Details on Arrow Electronics

Revenue	Date
$13,577,100,000.00 US$	2006-12-31
$9,312,600,000.00 US$	2000
$13,577,100,000.00 US$	2007

Operating Income	Date
$669,200,000.00 US$	2006-12-31

Net Income	Date
$124,200,000.00 US$	2000
$388,300,000.00 US$	2007

Market Capitalization	Date
$4,900,000,000.00 US$	2007-12-31

Board Members	Title	From	To
Daniel W Duval
John Nils Hanson
Richard Hill
M. Frances Keeth
Roger King
Karen Mills
Stephen C Patrick
Barry W Perry
John C Waddell
William Mitchell
Michael J Long