The John A. Becker Company is led by its founder's grandson, chairman and CEO Thomas J. Becker, and has continued since 1920 as a family-held independent. Becker's and Becker Electric Supply, the company distributes electrical supplies, commercial and residential lighting, and automation controls through locations in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Becker's carries lines from Belden, Emerson, Fluke, General Cable, Honeywell, Philips, Siemens, and Woodhead Industries, among many big brand manufacturers. Catering to OEMs and MROs (Honda of America Manufacturing and AK Steel are customers), it also offers maintenance, repair, and related operations support.

Trendsetter Electronics, Inc. company distributes electronic components, such as capacitors, connectors, delay lines, diodes, oscillators, relays, sensors, switches, thermistors, and terminal blocks. Manufacturers represented on its line card include Gowanda Electronics, Honda Connectors, Keltron, and Vishay Intertechnology. Trendsetter was established in 1995 by Carol Williams, a veteran of the components distribution business. Williams, the company's president, is the majority owner of Trendsetter. Employees have a small equity stake in the company.

Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) is the one of the world's largest manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment. TEL's chip-making systems include chemical vapor deposition, thermal processing, etching, cleaning, and probing equipment. The company also makes flat-panel display (FPD) production equipment, and distributes other companies' chip-making equipment, computer systems, networking products, and software in Japan. Subsidiary Tokyo Electron Device distributes chips, boards, and software made by companies including AMD, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments. Chip production equipment accounts for about three-quarters of TEL's sales, and customers outside Japan account for about 60% of total sales.

Maxtek Components a subsidiary of test equipment maker Tektronix, provides semiconductor design, packaging, and manufacturing services. In addition to Tektronix, Maxtek serves customers in the automated test equipment, imaging, medical equipment, and military/aerospace markets. The company traces its roots back to the formation of the Hybrid Components Organization (HCO) within Tektronix in 1970; HCO was formed to supply components for Tek instruments and test equipment. HCO was spun off as a joint venture between Maxim Integrated Products and Tektronix in 1994 and renamed Maxtek.

Diodes Incorporated company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Diodes Incorporated is a global designer, manufacturer, and supplier of application specific standard products within the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets. These products include diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs, protection devices, functional specific arrays, amplifiers and comparators, Hall effect sensors and temperature sensors, power management devices (including light emitting diode (LED) drivers), DC-DC switching and linear voltage regulators, voltage references, special function devices (including universal serial bus (USB) power switch, load switch, voltage supervisor, and motor controllers), and silicon wafers used to manufacture these products. The Company designs, manufactures, and markets these semiconductors focused on diverse end-use applications in the consumer electronics, computing, industrial, communications, and automotive sectors. In June 2008, the Company acquired Zetex plc.

Graybar Electric specializes in supply chain management services and is a leading North American distributor of high-quality components, equipment and materials for a number of industries. Graybar procures, warehouses, and delivers just about any kind of electrical or communications and data product, component, or related service to its customers. Graybar stocks and sells hundreds of thousands of items from thousands of manufacturers. If a customer needs an end-to-end solution for a lighting project, switchgear upgrade, a local or wide area network, or even a half-mile of electrical conduit, Graybar has it, and we deliver it when and where it is needed. Through its distribution network and value-added services, including kitting and integrated solutions, Graybar is helping its customers to power and network their facilities with speed, intelligence and efficiency. By adding sophisticated logistics and project management to its operations, Graybar has become a vital link in America's supply chain.

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation designs, develops, markets, and supports integrated circuits for processing, transporting, and storing of information worldwide. It offers integrated communications products that include physical layer products, which transmits and receives signals in a high-speed serial format, and converts high-speed serial formats to low-speed parallel formats; framer and mapper products, which transmits and receives signals to and from the physical layer in a parallel format; and embedded processor products for wireless infrastructure, wireless LAN, and high-end storage markets. The company's integrated communications products also include packet processing products, which receives and transmits signals to and from the framing layer and perform the processing of packet and cell headers; and cell switching products, which include packet routing switch fabric devices. Its products are used in wireline and wireless communications equipment, such as wireless access points, wireless base stations, multi-function printers, edge switches, gateways, metro transport platforms, core switches, and routers. The company has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. Applied Micro Circuits Corporation was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

GCL Solar Energy Technology Holdings researches, develops, produces, and sells polysilicon, which is the fundamental raw material used to produce semiconductors and photovoltaic (PV) solar cells. Polysilicon is manufactured at GCL's production facility in the Jiangsu province of China. Chairman Zhu Gongshan is the company's controlling stockholder. Founded in 2006, GCL Solar Energy Technology filed to go public in 2008 but withdrew its registration statement a year later.

Shepherd Electric Supply is the oldest independent wholesale electrical distributor in the Baltimore/Washington area. Ernest J. Fluharty and Henry A. Shepherd founded Shepherd Electric in 1892. At the onset, company sales generally involved dry cell batteries and other related items. Due to the giant surge in the use of electricity in the 1900's, Shepherd's business grew rapidly. At first, there was more emphasis on industrial products; however, over the last thirty years, there has been a shift to the commercial construction market. Shepherd Electric has moved four times for expansion and currently has four locations. The company is built around exceptional service and a very large inventory.

Many companies elect Elecsys to make their electronics. Elecsys is a contract manufacturer of electronic assemblies and displays. Through subsidiary DCI, Inc., the company makes custom electronic assemblies -- including printed circuit boards, electronic modules, LCDs, and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) -- for OEMs in the aerospace, communications, medical, and other industries. Five customers account for about a quarter of the company's sales. In 2007 Elecsys acquired the assets of Radix International, a supplier of ultra-rugged handheld computers and portable printers. DCI previously manufactured most of Radix's product line on a contract basis.

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