ECIA’s President and CEO Bill Bradford announced to the Board of Directors that he plans to step down as the association president and chief executive officer by the end of Q1 2020. Bradford has led the association since 2018 and will transition to an industry position later in the year. During his tenure, the association…
The electronics supply chain, in one year, saw a level of disruption that once took decades to achieve. The 1990s were known for frenetic M&A activity in the channel; 2019 will be marked by breakups. In one fell swoop, a major chipmaker dropped six of its channel partners. Global distributors decided to form their own…
ECIA is proud to announce that COO and General Counsel Robin B. Gray, Jr., has been honored by the Georgia Society of Association Executives (GSAE). Mr. Gray was awarded the Clifford M. Clarke Award at the GSAE’s annual holiday luncheon and business meeting on December 11 in Atlanta. The award is bestowed upon a Georgia…
The ECIA Board of Directors and Council leaders assigned the GIPC (Global Industry Practices Committee) to anticipate the unwinding/untangling of inventory issues inflicted through the tariffs by identifying a checklist of areas and issues for consideration when tariffs are removed. Since the implementation of the China Tariff List 301 in July 2018 the electronic components…
U.S. factory activity contracted for the third straight month in October as trade issues, the GM strike and global economic uncertainty plagued the market. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index registered 48.3 last month, up slightly from a 10-year low of 47.8 in September. New orders, employment and inventories all rose from September but…
Expectations for an upturn in electronics component demand have been pushed out to the second half of 2020, and the road to recovery passes directly through global trade policy, leading analysts say. The outlook for Q4 is grim as component demand deteriorates further, Morgan Stanley said in its Q3 distribution survey. “The narrative of a…
The three ECIA councils (Distributor, Manufacturer and Independent Manufacturer Representative) met in Savannah for the organization’s semi-annual Joint Council Session. New council positions were filled and the ECIA Board of Directors elected three new members: Mark Shiring, President & CEO of ebm-papst, Inc. Chris Wadsworth, General Manager of Carlton-Bates Company Karim Yasmine, Corporate Vice President,…
Three of the industry’s biggest distributors – Arrow Electronics Inc., Avnet Inc. and Electrocomponents plc – have withdrawn from the Electronic Components Industry Association (ECIA), marking an historic, structural change in the 9-year-old trade organization. A new group, the Global Electronics Distributor Association (GEDA), will be formed within the next 90 days, according to an…
Editor’s note: Following the news of possible tariffs on goods imported from Mexico – and the ongoing trade war with China – EPSNews’ sister publication EBN reached out to a few friends and colleagues from the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) world to find out what they and their customers think of this thorny issue. This…
Editor’s note on Special Project U.S.-China Trade War Damages Done: A permanent trade war with China has already thrust the supply chain in a mad scramble. Procurement costs have increased; partnerships have been severed; and companies have been forced to relocate manufacturing. Still, some companies see the conflict as a path toward differentiation President Trump’s…