Bishop and Associates has just released a new ten chapter research report providing a complete analysis of The World’s Top 100 Electronic Connector Manufacturers. This new report furnishes detailed statistics that benchmark the leading connector manufacturers by 2006/2007 total sales, sales by end-use equipment market, sales by product category, and many other key industry measurements. All manufacturers are exhibited by 2007 sales, and are ranked by region of the world with percent year-to-year change. This report provides all the key data needed to analyze each of the top 100 worldwide electronic connector suppliers.

The world’s top 100 connector manufacturers recorded 2007 shipments of $36.793 billion. This represented 85.9 percent of the worldwide connector market. The balance of the connector industry had 2007 shipments of $6.028 billion, and represented 14.1 percent of the total market.

We estimate there are 1,235 worldwide manufacturers of connector products. Many are very small and only have sales in one region of the world. Many of the small manufacturers supply a limited line of products to the market.

The following table shows top 100, and all others sales by geographic region.

Top 100 by Geographic Region - 2007 Sales