Ingram Micro Holding Corporation

What does Ingram Micro own?
Ingram Micro owns its distribution subsidiaries operating globally, the Xvantage digital platform, and service businesses covering cloud marketplace, lifecycle services, and reverse logistics. It does not own consumer product brands; it distributes other vendors' technology products.

Is Ingram Micro publicly traded?
Yes. Ingram Micro Holding Corporation trades on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker INGM. It returned to public markets in October 2024 after eight years under Platinum Equity private ownership, which retains a majority stake.

Who founded Ingram Micro?
Geza Csige and Lorraine Mecca founded the company as Micro D in 1979 in Southern California. It adopted the Ingram name in 1989 following acquisition of a European distributor and grew into the industry's global leader.

Where is Ingram Micro headquartered?
Ingram Micro is headquartered in Irvine, California, in Orange County. The company operates distribution centers and offices across more than 50 countries, though leadership and corporate functions run from Irvine.

How many brands does Ingram Micro own?
Ingram Micro operates primarily under a single master brand. Product-level identities like Xvantage, Ingram Micro Cloud, and Ingram Micro Lifecycle exist beneath it, but the strategy is concentrated on the masterbrand rather than a portfolio of names.

Who owns Ingram Micro?
Platinum Equity owns a controlling majority of Ingram Micro following the October 2024 IPO. Public shareholders hold the remaining float traded on the NYSE. Paul Bay serves as chief executive officer.

Geza Csige and Lorraine Mecca founded the company as Micro D in 1979 in Southern California, riding the personal computer revolution's first wave. It went public in 1983 and renamed itself Ingram Micro in 1989 after acquiring a European distributor of that name, beginning three decades of global expansion.

Through the 1990s and 2000s Ingram grew into the dominant tech distributor, consolidating regional players and building the warehouse and credit infrastructure that made it the industry's default back-end. The rise of cloud services in the 2010s forced an identity shift from box-moving to platform, with cloud marketplaces and subscription aggregation layered onto the physical distribution core.

Private equity took the company private in 2016 when Platinum Equity acquired it for approximately $3 billion, an era focused on operational restructuring and expansion into cloud and lifecycle services. Platinum returned it to public markets in October 2024 through an IPO on the NYSE, retaining majority ownership.

FY2025, ended December 27, 2025, marked the first full year back as a public company: net sales of $52.6 billion, up 9.5 percent, with double-digit Asia-Pacific growth, operating expenses improved to 5.0 percent of sales, net income up 24 percent to $328 million, and continued scaling of Xvantage as the central product.

Ingram Micro's public controversies are limited for a company of its size. Its most prominent episode was the 2020 ransomware attack that disrupted operations for several days during the pandemic, forcing temporary order processing outages and drawing scrutiny of cybersecurity practices at a company whose own business includes security product distribution.

The private equity period under Platinum Equity included restructuring and layoffs that drew employee criticism at the time, and the company's role in distributing Chinese-manufactured hardware places it in the ongoing U.S.-China trade tension landscape without producing specific adjudicated violations.