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Avnet EM

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Avnet has topped sales and profit expectations in its second quarter. Revenues moved forward 1.8% to $7.6bn and net income was up 7.4% to $176m. Avnet EM, the component distribution business revenues reported an impressive year on year 6.8% revenue hike to $4.43bn. Asia/Pacific provided the rocket fuel growing revenues 17.1% to $2.02bn, EMEA revenues, excluding currency exchange rates delivered a 7.1% increase to $1.21bn. Sales in the Americas were flat at $1.2bn. “Similar to our September quarter, better than expected growth in our select high volume supply chain engagements in Asia drove revenue to the high end of expectations and above normal seasonality. EM Asia grew 17.1% year over year and became the first region at Avnet to exceed $2 billion in quarterly revenue. This strong growth, along with another quarter of high single digit growth in EMEA, drove EM’s revenue up 9.7% year over year in constant currency.…