Amphenol Corporation (NYSE: APH) is a major producer of electronic and fiber optic connectors, cable and interconnect systems such as Coaxial cables. Amphenol is a portmanteau from the corporation's original name, American Phenolic Corp.
Amphenol was founded in Chicago in 1932 by entrepreneur Arthur Schmitt, whose first product was a tube socket for radio tubes. Amphenol expanded significantly during World War II, when the company became the primary manufacturer of connectors used in military hardware, including airplanes and radios. From 1967 to 1982 it was part of Bunker Ramo Corporation.
Amphenol's revenues in 2010 were $3.55 billion. The company sells its products into diverse electronics markets, including military-aerospace, industrial, automotive, information technology, mobile phones, wireless infrastructure, broadband, medical, and pro audio. Operations are located in more than 60 locations around the world. The company is included in the S&P Midcap 400 index. Amphenol's Chairman is Dr. Martin H. Loeffler.Chief Executive Officer is R. Adam Norwitt.
Amphenol's world headquarters is located in Wallingford, Connecticut. The largest division of Amphenol is Amphenol Aerospace (formerly Bendix Corporation) in Sidney, New York. This is the birth place of the D38999 cylindrical connector. Amphenol engineers also invented the commonly-used BNC connector ("Bayonet Neill-Concelman").
Amphenol Cables on Demand, another division of Amphenol launched in December 2006, specializes in distributing standard cable assemblies via their e-commerce storefront. They sell more than 2500 audio, video, computer, and networking cables. Offices are located in New York, California, Florida, and China.

Amphenol Corporation (Amphenol), incorporated in 1987, is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors, interconnect systems, and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. The Company operates in two business segments: Interconnect Products and Assemblies, and Cable Products. It designs and manufactures connectors and interconnect systems, which are used primarily to conduct electrical and optical signals for a range of electronic applications. The Company has developed a range of connector and interconnect products for information technology and communications equipment applications, including the converging voice, video and data communications markets. The Company’s brand names include Amphenol, Times Fiber, Tuchel, Socapex, Sine, Spectra-Strip, Pyle-National, Matrix and Kai Jack.
The Company offers a range of interconnect products for factory automation and motion control systems, machine tools, instrumentation and medical systems, mass transportation applications and automotive applications, including airbags, seatbelt pre-tensioners and other on-board automotive electronics. It designs, manufactures and assembles its products at facilities in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. The Company sells its products through its own global sales force, independent manufacturers’ representatives and a global network of electronics distributors to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in approximately 70 countries worldwide. The Company also sells products to electronic manufacturing services (EMS) companies, to original design manufacturing (ODM) companies and to communication network operators.
Interconnect Products and Assemblies
Amphenol produces a range of interconnect products and assemblies primarily for voice, video and data communication systems, commercial aerospace and military systems, automotive and mass transportation applications, and industrial and factory automation equipment. Interconnect products include connectors, which when attached to an electronic or fiber optic cable, a printed circuit board or other device, facilitate electronic or fiber optic transmission. Interconnect assemblies consist of a system of cable and connectors for linking electronic and fiber optic equipment. The Company designs and produces a range of connector and cable assembly products used in communication applications, such as engineered cable assemblies used in base stations for wireless communication systems and Internet networking equipment; smart card acceptor and other interconnect devices used in mobile telephones; set top boxes and other applications to facilitate reading data from smart cards, and fiber optic connectors used in fiber optic signal transmission.
The Company designs and produces a range of radio frequency connector products and antennas used in telecommunications, computer and office equipment, instrumentation equipment, local area networks and automotive electronics. Amphenol’s radio frequency interconnect products and assemblies are also used in base stations, mobile communication devices and other components of cellular and personal communications networks. Applications of these connectors and interconnect systems include aircraft, guided missiles, radar, military vehicles, equipment for spacecraft, energy, medical instrumentation, geophysical applications and off-road construction equipment. The Company also designs and produces industrial interconnect products used in a range of applications, such as factory automation equipment and mass transportation applications.
Cable Products
The Company designs, manufactures and markets coaxial cable primarily for use in the cable television industry. Its Times Fiber Communications subsidiary is a producer of coaxial cable for the cable television market. The Company’s coaxial cable and connector products are used in cable television systems, including full-service cable television/telecommunication systems being installed by cable operators and telecommunication companies offering video, voice and data services. Amphenol is also a supplier of coaxial cable to the international cable television market.
The Company manufactures two primary types of coaxial cable: semi-flexible, which has an aluminum tubular shield, and flexible, which has one or more braided metallic shields. Semi-flexible coaxial cable is used in the trunk and feeder distribution portion of cable television systems, and flexible cable (drop cable) is used primarily for hookups from the feeder cable to the cable television subscriber’s residence. Flexible cable is also used in other communication applications. The Company has also developed a range of radio frequency and fiber optic interconnect components for service cable television/ telecommunication networks. It is also a producer of data cables and specialty cables, which are used to connect internal components in systems with space and component configuration limitations. Such products are used in computer and office equipment applications, as well as in a range of telecommunication applications.
The Company competes with CommScope, Inc.

Principal Subsidiaries: Advanced Circuit Technology, Inc.; Advanced Circuit Technology; Amphenol Aerospace France, Inc. (U.S.A.); Amphenol Australia Pty Ltd.; Amphenol Benelux B.V. (Netherlands); Amphenol Borg Limited (U.K.); Amphenol do Brasil Ltda.; Amphenol Canada Corp.; Amphenol Commercial & Industrial France, L.L.C. (U.S.A.); Amphenol Commercial and Industrial UK, Limited; Amphenol Connexus AB (Sweden); Amphenol-Daeshin Electronics and Precision Co., Ltd. (Korea); Amphenol East Asia Limited (Hong Kong); Amphenol Foreign Sales Corporation (Barbados); Amphenol Funding Corp.; Amphenol Germany GmbH; Amphenol Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Austria); Amphenol Holdings Pty. Ltd. (Australia); Amphenol Holding UK, Limited; Amphenol Interconnect Products Corporation; Amphenol International Ltd.; Amphenol Italia, S.p.A. (Italy); Amphenol Japan K.K.; Amphenol-Kai Jack, Inc. (British Virgin Islands); Amphenol-Kai Jack Industrial Co., Ltd. (Taiwan); Amphenol-Kai Jack (Shenzhen), Inc. (China); Amphenol Limited (U.K.); Amphenol Optimize Manufacturing Co.; Amphenol Optimize Mexico S.A. de C.V.; Amphenol Socapex S.A.S. (France); Amphenol T & M Antennas, Inc.; Amphenol-TFC (Changzhou) Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. (China); Amphenol Taiwan Corporation; Amphenol Technical Products International Co. (Canada); Amphenol-Tuchel Electronics GmbH (Germany); Amphenol USHoldco Inc.; Amphetronix Limited (India); Connex Connector Corporation; Guangzhou Amphenol Electronics Communication Co., Ltd. (China); Konfektion E Elektronik GmbH (Germany); Korea Air Electronic Co., Ltd.; LPL Technologies Holding GmbH (Germany); Lonef Svenska, AB; Matir, S.A. (Uruguay); Pyle-National Ltd. (U.K.); Pyle-National of Canada Inc.; Sine Systems*Pyle Connectors Corporation; Spectra Strip Limited (U.K.); TFC South America S.A. (Argentina); Times Fiber Canada Limited; Times Fiber Communications, Inc.

OVERALL
Beta: 1.34
Market Cap (Mil.): $9,668.56
Shares Outstanding (Mil.): 172.93
Annual Dividend: 0.06
Yield (%): 0.11
FINANCIALS
APH Industry Sector
P/E (TTM): 18.80 11.15 17.41
EPS (TTM): 51.95 -- --
ROI: 16.95 4.79 3.06
ROE: 25.32 5.98 5.59

Statistics:
Public Company
Incorporated: 1942 as Amphenol Electronics Corporation
Employees: 11,600
Sales: $1.36 billion (2000)
Stock Exchanges: New York
Ticker Symbol: APH
NAIC: 334417 Electronic Connector Manufacturing; 335921 Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing; 335929 Other Communication and Energy Wire Manufacturing

Key Dates:

1942: Amphenol is founded.
1957: Shares begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
1958: Company merges with George W. Borg Corp.
1967: Company merges with Bunker-Ramo Corp.
1981: Allied Corp. buys Amphenol Components division.
1987: LPL Investment Group acquires Amphenol in an LBO.
1991: Amphenol launches an IPO.
1992: LPL buys coaxial cable supplier Times Fiber.
1997: KKR buys Amphenol for $1.2 billion.

Name Age Since Current Position
Loeffler, Martin 65 2011 Non-Executive Chairman of the Board
Norwitt, Richard 40 2009 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Reardon, Diana 50 2004 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President
Anderson, Gary 59 2004 Senior Vice President, Group General Manager - Aerospace and Industrial Operations Division
Walter, Luc 51 2004 Senior Vice President, Group General Manager - International Military and Aerospace Operations
Lampo, Craig 40 2006 Vice President, Controller
Wetmore, Edward 53 2004 Vice President, Secretary, General Counsel
Monteith, Jerome 60 2004 Vice President - Human Resources
Raley, Zachary 41 2007 Vice President and Group General Manager - Worldwide RF and Microwave Products and Cable Products
Schneider, Richard 52 2007 Vice President and Group General Manager - IT and Communications & Products
Perrotta, Alessandro 41 2008 Vice President, Group General Manager - Amphenol Mobile Consumer Products division
Jepsen, Edward 67 2005 Director
Lietz, Andrew 71 2001 Director
Secord, Dean 74 2002 Director
Lord, John 66 2004 Director
Badie, Ronald 67 2004 Director
Clark, Stanley 66 2005 Director


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385 Hall Avenue
Wallingford, Connecticut 06492
U.S.A.
 
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