Arrow Electronics Named to Forbes ``Best of the Web B2B''.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers MELVILLE, N.Y.-(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2002--Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ARW ARW Air Refueling Wing ARW Advanced Research Workshop ARW Associated Resume Writers ARW Army Ranger Wing (Irish Special Forces) ARW American Revolutionary War ARW Angle Random Walk ARW Aeroelastic Research Wing ) was recognized as one of the Best of the Web B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business companies selected by Forbes Magazine for its third annual business-to-business guide. Eighty companies were chosen across 22 industries. Companies included SAP, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, and Symbol Technologies. "We saw in this year's electronics category that distributors with established relationships still rule," said Adam Leitzes, reporting for Forbes. Arrow conducts more than 10 million transactions daily in over 40 countries with its established 175,000 customers and more than 600 suppliers. The Company then leverages this information and expands upon it to identify key business trends as part of its online service offerings. "We're everywhere our customers and suppliers want to do business. We have made investments around the globe to service our customers and suppliers wherever they need support or product," said Harriet Green, Head of Global Strategy and Business Development for Arrow Electronics. "Being recognized by Forbes is a testament to these global investments and to our tools and services, information, and infrastructure expertise." About Arrow Arrow Electronics is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and computer products and a leading provider of services to the electronics industry. Headquartered in Melville, New York Melville is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, 14,533 people resided there. , Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 600 suppliers and over 175,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and commercial customers through more than 200 sales facilities and 23 distribution centers in 40 countries. |
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