![]() ![]() electronics industry really came into its own. For all this entrepreneurial fervor, however, it was only with the explosion in manufacturing brought on by World War II that the U.S. Around the same time an entrepreneur named Murray Goldberg founded Arrow Radio on New York's Radio Row to sell used radio equipment, marking the birth of the firm-Arrow Electronics-that together with Avnet would dominate the industry in the 1990s. In 1922, for example, industry pioneer Charles Kierulff (later part of the Arrow Electronics empire) opened his own radio parts store in Los Angeles, and in 1928 Allied Radio, a mail order radio parts store, opened in Chicago.īy 1932 the radio parts distribution industry had reached Ohio, where a small distributorship named Standard Radio Supply-Pioneer-Standard's first incarnation-opened for business in Dayton. port cities like Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Small radio and electrical goods stores were springing up across the country, however, in major U.S. In the 1930s Avnet tested the waters again with a car radio kit and antenna manufacturing business, which succumbed to competition and went bankrupt as well. ![]() Before the commercial battery-operated radio was developed, ham radios ruled the industry, and in 1921 Charles Avnet, the founder of the firm that would lead the industry 70 years later, opened one of the first electronics distributorships for ham radio replacement parts, passive components, and connectors on Radio Row-only to see it fall victim to the Depression in 1931. electronic components distribution business was born in the 1920s in Courtland Street in lower Manhattan, a location that came to be known as Radio Row because of its profusion of radio parts stores. In 1996 Pioneer-Standard maintained 53 distribution operations across the United States and Canada. In addition to its traditional distribution business, Pioneer-Standard is a purveyor of a wide range of value-added services including device programming, just-in-time product kitting and turnkey manufacturing, systems integration, enterprise network services, power systems integration, automated inventory replenishment, financial services, and Internet services such as design, connection, and World Wide Web home page design. Its computer products include disk drives, display terminals, printers, modems, minicomputers, networking products, and PCs its semiconductor line includes analog and digital integrated circuits, memory devices, microprocessors, and programmable logic devices and its electronic components include capacitors, resistors, potentiometers, connectors, and switches. ![]() The three main categories on Pioneer-Standard's product "line card" were computer products (40 percent of its 1996 sales), semiconductors (including microprocessors 38 percent), and passive and electromechanical electronic components (20 percent). In 1996, DEC and Intel were its two largest suppliers, accounting for 45 percent of its sales volume. (DEC), Intel, IBM, Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft, and Oracle. manufacturers whose products it distributes are Digital Equipment Corp. Its 24,000 customers range from original equipment manufacturers (OEMS) and resellers to research laboratories, government agencies, and end users divided into such major "vertical market segments" as industrial controls, computer, data and telecommunications, medical, financial, and retail. electronics business, Pioneer-Standard sells more than 135,000 products from more than 100 manufacturers. As a middleman in the industrial/commercial segment of the U.S. was the sixth largest firm among the 1,500 companies in the $19 billion North American industrial electronics distribution industry. In 1996 Pioneer-Standard Electronics, Inc. We are committed to doing what we say we will do!" We take pride in our culture, dedicated to: integrity, flexibility, fairness, growth, quality, success in all regards. We will provide our investors with attractive financial growth and our employees with an equal opportunity for personal and professional growth. We will be among the top independent distributors. We will serve today's needs for electronic components, systems, and services-and tomorrow's needs for technology. "We will be the preferred strategic link between our suppliers and customers. SICs: 5065, Electronic Parts & Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified 5045 Computers, Peripherals, & Software 7629 Electrical Repair Shops, Not Elsewhere Classified ![]()
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