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Ingram Micro Inc.

Ingram Micro Inc., a Fortune 100 company, is the largest global information technology (“IT”) wholesale distributor by net sales, providing sales, marketing, and logistics services for the IT industry worldwide. Ingram Micro provides a vital link in the IT supply chain by generating demand and developing markets for our technology partners. We remain focused on continuing to build our IT distribution business with expansion in segments such as enterprise computing. We also are developing an increasing presence in adjacent technology categories, such as automatic identification and data capture (“AIDC”); point-of-sale (“POS”); managed, professional and warranty maintenance services; and consumer electronics (“CE”) to broaden our product lines and market presence. We create value in the market by extending the reach of our technology partners, capturing market share for resellers and suppliers, creating innovative solutions comprised of both technology products and services, offering credit, and providing efficient fulfillment of IT products and services. With a broad range of products and an array of services, we create operating efficiencies for our partners around the world.

History

We began business in 1979, operating as Micro D Inc., a California corporation. Through a series of acquisitions, mergers and organic growth, Ingram Micro’s global footprint and product breadth have expanded and strengthened in North America; Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”); Asia Pacific; and Latin America. During 2009, we acquired Computacenter Distribution (“CCD”), a UK-based enterprise distributor, to advance our capabilities in infrastructure solutions in EMEA. We also acquired Value Added Distributors Limited (“VAD”), a small New Zealand enterprise distribution business. We invested further in the AIDC/POS market with the acquisition of the Vantex Group of companies, Asia Pacific’s leading distributor of AIDC/POS products.

Products. Based on publicly available information, we believe we offer the largest breadth of products in the IT industry. Our broad base of products allows us to better serve our customers, as well as mitigate risk. Our broad line card, or catalog of product offerings, makes us less vulnerable to market dynamics or actions by any one vendor or segment, or volatility in market demand in specific product lines. We continuously focus on refreshing our business with new, high-potential products and services. We are focused on moving deeper into new adjacent product categories and globalizing our efforts. Our acquisition of AIDC/POS distributor Vantex in Asia Pacific serves to strengthen our presence in this adjacent product space and solidifies our position as the only global distributor of AIDC/POS products. Ingram Micro North America has launched a division focused on physical security products, such as video surveillance cameras and access control devices, to take advantage of the convergence between IT security and physical security, which is gaining traction. We remain focused on expansion in the mobile convergence market and on building security solutions. We are expanding our capabilities to enable reseller partners to capture opportunities in the sale of enterprise computing solutions, particularly within the growing data center market. To augment solid enterprise capabilities in Ingram Micro North America’s Infrastructure Technology Solutions Division and similar groups in other regions, we acquired CCD in the UK and VAD in New Zealand. Product line expansion in this business segment has been focused on products and solutions that bring higher productivity to our partners, such as affordable virtualization solutions and storage offerings. In support of our strategy to diversify revenue streams and expand addressable markets, we continue to execute on our private label business under the V7 brand, with a focus on building our portfolio of computer accessories. Overall, we believe that our diversified product portfolio will provide a solid platform for growth while softening the impact of lower demand in specific categories.

ervices. IT Services is one of the fastest-growing and highest gross margin segments of IT spending. We are intent on building our service offerings which will enhance our gross margin profile with no inventory risk while allowing us to bring additional value to our customers and become more connected to our resellers’ end-user customers. We believe that several of our service offerings provide a means to diversify our revenue stream while distinguishing us from our competitors.

Ingram Micro Services Division (North America) continues to build its managed and professional services delivery engine, branded “Seismic.” Managed services utilize application and technology tools to more effectively and efficiently manage an end-user’s IT environment while affording the solution provider significant remote capabilities, service efficiencies and corresponding improvement in profitability. New offerings include an outsourced global monitoring and management service, enterprise-class business continuity services and an intelligent dashboard tracking end-user data to provide reseller partners with product and service sale leads. These services tend to be infrastructure- and labor-intensive and would burden service providers with investments in data centers and large server installations were they to deploy the services independently.

Ingram Micro Logistics provides end-to-end supply-chain services to manufacturers, software publishers and retailers on a fee-for-service basis. We optimize our partners’ supply chains with scalable logistics services that reduce costs, create efficiencies and improve execution. Ingram Micro Logistics enhances service with high levels of order and inventory accuracy, on-time shipping, and world-class logistics centers. We specialize in multi-channel solutions that require flexible scale and a superior end-user experience. Services include supply chain analysis, order management, product launches and replenishment, warehousing, turnkey manufacturing and assembly, reconfiguration and refurbishment, fulfillment, just-in-time vendor-managed inventory and retail hubs, transportation management, customer service, returns processing, kitting, billing and collections, and IT connectivity. We are focused on offering our logistics services to a broader market, including non-IT customers to further diversify our business. Ingram Micro Logistics also offers an alternative service fee business model that includes components of both the traditional distribution and the logistics fee-for-service models. This blended model combines a flexible inventory ownership option with our supply chain management expertise into a unique client offering. Best practices from Ingram Micro North America will continue to be shared with our other Ingram Micro regional operations as we move toward a global logistics network.