Arrow Electronics reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $10 billion, up 32% year-over-year, exceeding expectations. The electronics distributor's operating margin expanded 120 basis points to 4%. Non-GAAP earnings per share reached $5.45, marking a 124% increase compared to the same period last year. Interim President and CEO Bill Austin attributed the strong performance to broad-based demand, disciplined execution, and positive operating leverage. The company's global components and enterprise computing solutions divisions both contributed to the results. Austin credited Arrow's team worldwide for their commitment to serving suppliers and customers, calling it a key factor in delivering another strong quarter.

Arrow establishes experience centres to accelerate AI adoption and monetisation. By James Goulding on August 13, 2026 Arrow Electronics is hoping to accelerate partners' adoption and monetisation of AI and cloud through the establishment of networked experience centres in Georgia, USA and Stockholm, Sweden. Serving as strategic hubs for vendors, channel partners and end customers in Europe and North America, the centres give partners access to over 100 pre-built and tested solutions and the abilityto create custom solutions with support from Arrow engineers and technicians. Nick Bannister, President of Arrow's Enterprise Computing Solutions Business in Europe, said: "Our mission is to simplify technology, enabling our channel partners to use IT with confidence to solve real- world problems. Through global connectivity of our experience centres, we can test use cases, create demos and help channel partners understand how to run and secure workloads anywhere in the world, allowing them to create new business opportunities." One customer that has already benefited from Arrow experience centres is Kateryna Wikstrom, Chief Product Officer at Oxide AI. She said: "Partnering with Arrow and their global experience centre has been a game-changer for us. Arrow helped us understand the technology and infrastructure and gave us invaluable access to a network of vendors and channel partners that enabled us to scale and hone our AI product. This collaboration has not only helped us enhance our AI agent's ability to interpret user intent, but has opened new doors, empowering us to create more AI-powered solutions on a global scale." Please follow and like us:

Arrow Electronics has appointed Deidra C. Merriwether as president and chief operating officer, effective 8 September 2026. She will report to interim chief executive officer William F. Austen and lead the company's global business segments and logistics organisations. Merriwether joins from W.W. Grainger, where she served as senior vice president and chief financial officer since 2021. Previously, she held various positions at W.W. Grainger since 2013, including senior vice president and president of North American sales and services. From 2002 to 2013, she worked at Sears Holdings Corporation, departing as chief operating officer of retail formats. She holds an MBA from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and serves on the board of Weyerhaeuser Company.