Amphenol designs, manufactures and markets electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors, coaxial and flat-ribbon cable, and interconnect systems. Its connectors and interconnectors are used in a variety of applications including Automatic Interconnect sytems, CATV, Dat/Telecom , Fiber Otpic, MobilePhone, PRF Coaxial, Industrial Power and Smart Card. The largest market is its coaxial cable products that are primarily sold to cable television operators and to telecommunication companies that have entered the broadband communications market.
This year has been a busy one for acquistions. "Consistent with our strategy, the company has completed three acquisitions since the beginning of this year, with aggregate annual sales of approximately $70 million," said CEO Martin H. Loeffler in an April 20, 2005, press release on first-quarter results. "The acquisitions complement and broaden the company's presence in a number of market segments and include a Korean manufacturer of handset related products, a U.S. manufacturer of fiber optic systems for high performance military and industrial markets and a U.S. manufacturer of high speed, high density interconnect products for computer and communications related markets. These acquisitions contributed approximately $8 million in sales in the first quarter of 2005," he said.
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