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 2005/2006 total sales, sales by end-use equipment market, sales by product category, and many other key industry measurements. All manufacturers are exhibited by 2006 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 2006 shipments of $33.553 billion. This represented 84 percent of the worldwide connector market. The balance of the connector industry had 2006 shipments of $6.401 billion, and represented 16 percent of the total market.

We estimate there are 1,230 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 - 2006 Sales