Bishop and Associates has just released a new nine chapter research report providing a complete analysis of The Worlds Top 100 Electronic Connector Manufacturers. This new report furnishes detailed statistics that benchmark the leading connector manufacturers by 2002/2003 total sales, sales by end-use equipment market, sales by product category, and many other key industry measurements. All manufacturers are exhibited by 2003 sales, and are ranked by region of the world with percent year-to-year change. This report provides all the key data needed to analyze each of the top 100 worldwide electronic connector suppliers.
The worlds top 100 connector manufacturers recorded 2002 shipments of $28.351 billion. This represented 82.2% of the worldwide connector market. The balance of the connector industry had 2003 shipments of $5.044 billion, and represented 17.8% of the total market.
There are approximately 1,205 worldwide manufacturers of connector products. Many are very small and only have sales in one region of the world. Many of the small manufacturers supply a limited line of products to the market.
The following table shows top 100, and all others sales by geographic region.
Top 100 2003 Sales by Geographic Region
The following table shows average sales per manufacturer for the top 100, and the balance of connector manufacturers.
2003 Average Sales Per Manufacturer
The Top 10 Connector Manufacturers
The worlds top 10 connector manufacturers recorded 2003 shipments of $13.333 billion. This was an increase of ?6.4% from 2002 shipments of $14.241 billion. Five of the top 10 manufacturers were U.S.-based firms, three were Japanese manufacturers, one was European, and one was Asia Pacific based.
The leading worldwide connector manufacturer was Tyco Electronics, with 2003 shipments of $4.962 billion. Tyco Electronics accounted for 37.2% of top 10 shipments, and 21.5% of total 2003 worldwide connector shipments.
The second ranked manufacturer was Molex Inc., which had 2003 shipments of $1.789 billion. Molex represented 13.4% of top 10 shipments, and 7.7% of total worldwide connector shipments.
The third ranked manufacturer was FCI, which had 2003 shipments of $1.321 billion. FCI accounted for 9.9% of top 10 shipments, and 5.7% of total 2003 worldwide connector shipments.
With shipments of $13.333 billion, the top 10 manufacturers accounted for 57.7% of the total worldwide connector market.
Tyco Electronics ranked # 1 in all regions of the world in 2003, and represented 19.7% of the total world connector market.
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