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Amphenol Corporation (NYSE: APH) is a major producer of electronic and fiber optic connectors, cable and interconnect systems. 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 2007 were $2.85 billion. The company sells its products into diverse electronics markets, including military-aerospace, industrial, automotive, information technology, mobile phones, wireless infrastructure, broadband 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.
Aside from that there are also different aspects that are related to economic condition of each and every nation as well as the different factors that are related to laws and regulations. That is the reason why, it is very important to focus on strategic management. This can be done by the process of analyzing the different factors and issues that can be found in the external environment, as well as the different characteristics or attributes of a given industry in order to use the different strengths and weaknesses of the business in the process of decision making and match it to the different issues that are present in the business environment.
That is the reason why more and more companies in the world are becoming aware of the benefits of aligning the different strategies with the current business environment and organization’s capabilities.
It is very important for an organization to consider its environment before beginning any important transactions, particularly marketing. As a matter of fact, it is important the environmental analysis must be continuous and must feed all the aspects of planning and management. It is important to consider the three important aspects of business environment such as: the internal environment; the micro-environment; and the macro-environment (Marketing Teacher 2008).
The business environment of the firm consists of all the external influences that affect its decisions and performance. The environmental influences can be classified by source into political, economic, social and technological factors (Grant 2002, p. 66).
PEST analysis of any given industry sector investigates that different vital factors that are affecting the industry, thus influencing different companies that are operating in different sectors. Thus, PEST analysis is a perfect tool for different managers and policy makers due to the fact that it helped them to analyzing the different forces that are driving the entire industry and how the said factors will influence their specific businesses, as well as the entire industry
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 2007 were $2.85 billion. The company sells its products into diverse electronics markets, including military-aerospace, industrial, automotive, information technology, mobile phones, wireless infrastructure, broadband 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.
Aside from that there are also different aspects that are related to economic condition of each and every nation as well as the different factors that are related to laws and regulations. That is the reason why, it is very important to focus on strategic management. This can be done by the process of analyzing the different factors and issues that can be found in the external environment, as well as the different characteristics or attributes of a given industry in order to use the different strengths and weaknesses of the business in the process of decision making and match it to the different issues that are present in the business environment.
That is the reason why more and more companies in the world are becoming aware of the benefits of aligning the different strategies with the current business environment and organization’s capabilities.
It is very important for an organization to consider its environment before beginning any important transactions, particularly marketing. As a matter of fact, it is important the environmental analysis must be continuous and must feed all the aspects of planning and management. It is important to consider the three important aspects of business environment such as: the internal environment; the micro-environment; and the macro-environment (Marketing Teacher 2008).
The business environment of the firm consists of all the external influences that affect its decisions and performance. The environmental influences can be classified by source into political, economic, social and technological factors (Grant 2002, p. 66).
PEST analysis of any given industry sector investigates that different vital factors that are affecting the industry, thus influencing different companies that are operating in different sectors. Thus, PEST analysis is a perfect tool for different managers and policy makers due to the fact that it helped them to analyzing the different forces that are driving the entire industry and how the said factors will influence their specific businesses, as well as the entire industry