Premier Farnell plc is a leading multi-channel, high service distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally. Premier Farnell markets and distributes a comprehensive range of products and services throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific with operations in 24 countries and trading in over 100, with approximately 4,100 employees worldwide. Serving a global customer base of more than 2 million customer contacts worldwide, the Group stocks in excess of 400,000 electronic products, has access to 4 million more and represents 3,500 manufacturer brands. The Group's multi-channel approach includes fully transactional websites, contact centres, field sales force, trade counters, branch network, catalogues and direct mail. Companies within the Premier Farnell Group include Farnell, Newark, CPC, Premier Electronics, Farnell-Newark, MCM, Akron Brass and TPC Wire & Cable.

Sonnet was founded in 1986 by CEO Robert Farnsworth, who owns half of the company. Sonnet Technologies provides local storage systems (Fusion) for professional users of Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX systems in the broadcast, film, and video industries. It also offers performance and connectivity enhancements for Mac and industry-standard computers, as well as computer hardware upgrades with product lines featuring high-performance and cost-effective storage solutions. Branded products (Crescendo and Encore) boost the power of a computer's central processor. PCI adapters (Tango and Tempo) upgrade Macs with FireWire, USB, or SCSI connection ports.

MEMSCAP makes microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) components, such as radio-frequency switches, variable capacitors, inductors, optical switches and attenuators, and sensors. The company also offers design, integration, and manufacturing services. It caters to a wide variety of markets, including network and medical equipment suppliers, aircraft manufacturers, research institutes and universities, and cosmetic businesses. In 2007 MEMSCAP acquired Les Laboratoires La Licorne, a French firm specializing in the analysis and biodermatological treatment of the skin, supplementing its IntuiSkin skin-care subsidiary.

Generac has earned a reputation as the company home and business owners turn to when the power goes out. The first to engineer affordable home standby generators, along with the first engine developed specifically for the rigors of generator use, we now sell more home standby generators than all of our competitors combined. We then revolutionized the commercial market with the first cost effective product line meeting the needs of small and mid-sized businesses. Unlike other generator manufacturers, power generation is our sole focus, with the widest range of power products in the marketplace including portable, RV, residential, commercial and industrial generators. At Generac, we protect the things that power your life by providing quality, affordable power solutions.

Analogic Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of medical imaging and security systems and subsystems to original equipment manufacturers and end users in the healthcare and homeland security markets. Its medical imaging products include electronic systems and subsystems for medical imaging, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound equipment. The company provides computed tomography detectors and data acquisition systems that convert X-ray energy to digital signals for the generation of anatomical images in medical diagnostics and disease treatment; radio frequency and gradient amplifiers; ultrasound transducers and probes for various clinical applications; and ultrasound systems and probes for end-user markets in urology, surgery, and radiology for prostate cancer treatment. Analogic Corporation also offers Flex Focus, an ultrasound scanner used for multiple applications in various settings. The company's ultrasound scanners generate real-time images, using acoustic waves of the internal anatomy that are used for medical diagnostic and interventional procedures. In addition, it provides digital radiography products, including X-ray detectors for diagnostic and interventional applications in mammography to convert X-ray signals into digital images. Further, the company offers security technology products comprising explosives detection systems, and weapon and threat detection aviation security systems and subsystems for aviation security applications at airline checkpoints to generate data for three-dimensional images of objects contained within a piece of baggage. Additionally, it involves in hotel business. Analogic Corporation sells its products in the United States, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Canada. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in Peabody, Massachusetts.

Advantest established its first representative office in the States in 1973 and founded Advantest America in 1982. Advantest America Corporation manufactures and distributes electronic measuring instruments and semiconductor test equipment used in the development and manufacture of computer and telecommunications products. Products include handlers, interconnect products, and testers. The company is the North American subsidiary of Advantest Corporation and was established to expand the automatic test equipment business (ATE) in the US. It has 13 offices throughout the US and an R&D Center located in California. The Japanese parent company gets about 15% of its annual sales from the Americas.

BP Solar International displays a certain star power as it seeks to transform the sun's energy into electricity. A subsidiary of UK oil giant BP, the company designs, manufactures, supplies, and installs photovoltaic (PV) solar cells and modules that provide power for homes, remote villages and industrial facilities, commercial businesses, and local government. Its plants are in the US, India, and China. BP Solar also offers an array of services, from cost estimation to logistic management, remote monitoring, and training. Customers include Ericsson, FedEx Freight, NEC, and Telstra.

Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China. Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets baseband processor solutions for the wireless communications market. It offers a portfolio of integrated baseband processor solutions that support a range of wireless communications standards, including global system for mobile communications (GSM), general packet radio service (GPRS) and time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA), an international third generation (3G) standard for wireless communications promoted by China. Its solutions also offer a range of multimedia capabilities, such as television-out, moving picture experts group layer-3 audio (MP3) digital audio playback, touchscreen, JAVA acceleration, digital camera support with up to 5 mega-pixels, motion joint photographic experts group (JPEG), motion picture experts group 4 (MPEG4), audio video coding standard (AVS) and H.264 digital video playback and 64-channel polyphonic ringtone playback.

Hittite Microwave Corporation company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Hittite Microwave Corporation designs and develops integrated circuits (ICs), modules and subsystems for radio frequency (RF) microwave and millimeterwave applications. The Company offers a range of standard and custom ICs, modules and subsystems that perform a range of functions across the RF, microwave and millimeterwave frequency bands. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had approximately 730 standard products spanning 20 product lines. The products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications, such as cellular telephone base stations, microwave and millimeterwave radio systems, broadband wireless access systems, and direct broadcast satellite systems. They are also used in detection, measurement and imaging applications including military communication, targeting, guidance and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific and military spacecraft, automotive collision avoidance systems, medical imaging systems and industrial test equipment.

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Jhubei City, Taiwan. Silicon Motion Technology Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, and supplies semiconductor solutions for the multimedia consumer electronics market. The company offers mobile storage line of products, which include microcontrollers used in NAND flash memory storage products, such as flash memory cards, USB flash drives, SSDs, embedded flash applications, and card readers. It also provides mobile communications line of products that comprise mobile TV tuners, CDMA radio frequency integrated circuits (RF ICs), and electronic toll collection RF ICs; and multimedia SoC products that support portable multimedia players, DAB systems, PC cameras, and embedded graphics applications. The company sells its semiconductor solutions to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers. It sells products through its direct sales force and distributors in Canada, China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States.

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