Arrow Electronics, Inc.

What does Arrow Electronics own?
Arrow operates under the Arrow Electronics master brand covering Global Components and Global ECS segments, plus acquired platforms like Silicon Expert for component data.

Is Arrow Electronics publicly traded?
Yes. Arrow trades on the NYSE under ticker ARW and is a component of the S&P 500.

Who founded Arrow Electronics?
Maurice Goldberg founded Arrow Electronics in 1935 in New York City as a radio parts shop. It grew into the world's largest component distributor.

Where is Arrow Electronics headquartered?
Arrow Electronics is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, USA, having moved there in 2010.

Who owns Arrow Electronics?
Arrow is owned by public shareholders with no controlling investor. Sean Kerins serves as President and CEO.

What is Arrow Electronics' revenue?
Arrow reported FY2025 sales of $30.9 billion, up 10% year over year, with GAAP EPS of $10.93 and non-GAAP EPS of $11.02.

What does Arrow Electronics distribute?
Arrow distributes electronic components including semiconductors and connectors, plus enterprise computing products including servers, storage, networking, and software.

Maurice Goldberg founded Arrow Electronics in 1935 in New York City as a radio parts retailer, beginning as a small shop selling surplus electronics to customers building radios. The company shifted to wholesale distribution in the 1940s and grew through the postwar electronics boom.

The 1968 acquisition by three Harvard Business School graduates transformed Arrow into a growth vehicle that consolidated the fragmented electronics distribution industry through decades of acquisitions, becoming the largest component distributor in the United States by the 1980s and globally thereafter.

International expansion through the 1990s and 2000s established Arrow across Europe and Asia, while the enterprise computing business grew to become the second major segment alongside the core component distribution. The company moved its headquarters to Centennial, Colorado, in 2010.

The business model has remained consistent: Arrow buys components from manufacturers, provides logistics, engineering support, and inventory management, and sells to customers who need parts delivered reliably rather than buying directly. Its scale gives it purchasing power and logistics capability that smaller distributors and direct sales cannot match.

Arrow's sustainability reporting covers logistics and distribution operations' environmental impact, workplace practices, and supply chain responsibility. The company participates in standard corporate responsibility frameworks without certification-driven positioning like B Corp status.

As a distributor, its sustainability footprint is primarily logistics emissions and workplace practices rather than manufacturing impact, with the company reporting on energy use, waste, and supplier responsibility programs across its global network.

• Fortune 500: Arrow ranks on the Fortune 500 by revenue.
• Global 2000: The company appears on Forbes' global company rankings.
• Supplier recognition: Arrow receives regular distributor-of-the-year awards from its major component suppliers.

Supply chain complexity: As a global distributor, Arrow operates under export controls, trade compliance, and conflict minerals regulations, with periodic scrutiny over component traceability in complex electronics supply chains.

Inventory cycles: The business's exposure to semiconductor boom-bust cycles has produced volatile earnings and periodic restructuring during downturns, typical of the distribution industry rather than a governance failure.

Concentration concerns: Customer and supplier concentration is monitored as the business depends on relationships with a limited number of large component manufacturers.