Our Advantages
Our Product Advantage
We design, manufacture, and market approximately 450,000 products for more than 150,000 customer locations in a broad array of industries including automotive; data communication systems and consumer electronics; telecommunications; aerospace, defense and marine; medical; energy; and lighting. We bring a performance advantage to every technology, product and service we provide, including connector systems, relays, fiber optics, circuit protection devices, wire and cable, touch screens, heat shrink tubing, racks and panels, network interface devices, and undersea telecommunication systems. We are continually honing our technological edge with the goal of delivering the best products – with the highest quality – every time.
| Our Technology Advantage
We invest more than five percent of the company’s sales revenue on research, development and engineering annually – in 2009 alone our investment was more than US$530 million. These efforts are supported by approximately 7,000 engineers at 11 global design centers who work closely with our customers to develop applications-specific, highly engineered products and systems to satisfy customers’ needs. We apply for more than 750 patents annually and hold more than 14,000 patents and patent applications in total. Our innovation, early design involvement and materials expertise give customers a competitive advantage by delivering new functionality, and by helping them to bring better performance to existing products, deliver new products to market faster, and realize greater efficiencies in their manufacturing processes. |
Our Global Advantage We have an established manufacturing presence in approximately 25 countries, we operate in over 50 countries and we serve customers in more than 150 countries. Our global coverage positions us near our customers and allows us to assist them in consolidating their supply base and lowering their production costs. In addition, our Global Account Management programs allow us to maintain close working relationships with the key customers in the markets we serve. With sales of $10.3 billion in fiscal 2009, we are significantly larger than many of our competitors – giving us scale and reach that generate direct dividends for our customers everywhere. |
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Our Employee Advantage
We have approximately 78,000 dedicated employees who are based throughout the world, with approximately 30,000 employees in China alone. By maximizing the commitment of our approximately 7,000 engineers, and the reach of our 5,000-plus member sales force serving customers in more than 150 countries, we can collaborate with customers to provide highly engineered products and innovative solutions to meet their needs. Our diverse and capable management team is equally dedicated to creating and sustaining those powerful customer alliances – and to earning their business every day.
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