Digi–Key Corporation Company Profile

As one of the fastest–growing franchised distributors in the world, Digi–Key has earned its reputation as a World Class source for electronic components. Digi–Key is totally focused on providing customers top quality products and unsurpassed service and the broadest selection of board level components available for off–the–shelf delivery in the industry. Digi–Key’s foundation is its commitment to customer–centric business principles, which have propelled the company from the world’s 11th largest electronic distributor in 2005 to the 8th largest in 2009.

“We continually strive to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations,” said Mark Larson, Digi–Key’s president and COO. “The growth we’ve experienced in the United Kingdom proves our customers are recognizing that Digi–Key is the ultimate source for their design engineering and purchasing needs, whatever they need, when they need it.”

As an authorized global distributor of electronic components, Digi–Key represents more than 440 of the world’s leading suppliers of semiconductor, passive, interconnect, and electromechanical products. Digi–Key stocks more than 500,000 products featured in its 2,700–page print catalog, and more than 1.7 million products are offered on Digi–Key’s website www.digikey.co.uk. Customers in more than 170 countries around the world order from Digi–Key’s expansive inventory. Digi–Key processes and ships orders to customers worldwide from its 600,000 square-foot (55,741 square-meter) Product Distribution Center in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, USA.

Digi–Key has the ability to process an order from entry to shipping in as little as 15 minutes and more than ninety–nine percent of Digi–Key orders are shipped the same day they are received to customers worldwide by UPS, FedEx, USPS and DHL. Customers in the UK receive their orders within 24 to 72 hours. Digi–Key also provides customer service, live technical support, and supply chain solutions tools, as well as other value-added services.

“Operating from a single location allows Digi–Key to aggregate component usage worldwide, which, in turn, allows us to offer the world’s largest selection of electronic components for immediate delivery,” Larson said. “Consolidating all order fulfillment at a single location allows maximum economies of scale, maximum efficiencies. This is what makes Digi–Key the world’s best source for electronic components.”

Digi–Key Corporation
701 Brooks Avenue South
Thief River Falls, MN 56701 USA
Phone: 0800–587–0991 or 0–800–904–7786
Fax: 0–800–587–0992 or 0–800–904–7783

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