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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedDistribution Outlook 2000: A find year.(Technology Information)
EDN, December, 2000 by Elliott, Heidi
What a difference a year can make. As the distribution industry looks back on the year 2000, probably the most common description would be record-breaking. Record-breaking sales and net income figures, and a surprising summer season that was anything but the standard sluggish and sleepy.
And most industry executives and analysts predict at least one more great year. "It has been a record-breaking year," says Robin Gray, executive vice president of the National Electronic Distributors Association. "That's probably the loudest message for this year." The year started with the Y2K crisis that wasn't. This past year was the one where the electronics industry firmly pulled itself out of its three-year-plus slump; average selling prices solidified,...
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