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Top 50 Distribution Leaders
Smaller distributors were the only ones to post sales gains in 2009. Interestingly, two of the five distributors that posted growth last year — Interstate Connecting Components and Sherburn Electronics — derive 100 percent of their sales from interconnect products. Both of them also target the military/aerospace industry.
Here are the top 10 sales leaders by ICs, passives/electromechanical devices, interconnects and computer products as well as sales growth.
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