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Ingram Micro Holding Corp (INGM) Business

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Item 1. Business

Overview

Ingram Micro is a leading solutions provider by revenue and/or by global footprint for the global information technology (“IT”) ecosystem helping power the world’s leading technology brands. With our vast infrastructure and focus on client and endpoint solutions, advanced solutions offerings, cloud-based and other solutions, we enable our business partners to scale and operate more efficiently in the markets they serve. We are at the center of the technology ecosystem and deliver customized solutions to our vendor and reseller partners, enabling them to provide excellent business outcomes to the end-user companies and consumers they serve. Through our global reach, our industry-leading business-to-business (“B2B”) platform, and our broad portfolio of products, professional services offerings and software, cloud and digital solutions, we remove complexity and maximize the value of the technology products our partners make, sell or use, providing the world more ways to realize the promise of technology. While many commercial markets remain economically volatile around the globe, our business remains well-positioned to benefit from technology megatrends, including cloud migration, enhanced security needs, automation and robotics, artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning (“ML”) enabling Agentic AI, hyperconnected ecosystems, hybrid work and Internet-of-Things (“IoT”). Our business is organized into four reportable segments based on the different geographic regions in which we operate: North America; Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”); Asia-Pacific; and Latin America.

Our Fiscal Year is a 52- or 53-week period ending on the Saturday nearest to December 31. All references herein to “Fiscal Year 2025”, “Fiscal Year 2024” and “Fiscal Year 2023” represent the fiscal years ended December 27, 2025 (52 weeks), December 28, 2024 (52 weeks) and December 30, 2023 (52 weeks), respectively.

Our Strategic Priorities

We are a technology-focused company and have invested heavily in developing and acquiring technology, including intellectual property, to enable our partners’ success. We expect our continued investment in robotics and automation within our advanced logistics centers will augment our efficient, customer-centric delivery capabilities and that our continued investment in our digital capabilities, including the integration of more than 42 million lines of code and 400 AI and ML models within Ingram Micro Xvantage, which is enhancing and will continue to enrich the experience of our customers and vendors. We have a proven track record of profitable growth which has enabled us to achieve a position of great competitive strength and remain focused on continuing to deliver strong future growth. We recognize the market’s need for sophisticated IT solutions and our strategies are developed with this in mind. Our overall objective is to continue to expand our business and our profitability by delivering innovative and thoughtful solutions to enable business partners to scale and operate more efficiently and successfully in the markets they serve through the ecosystem created by our end-to-end Xvantage platform.

Our strategic priorities are aligned to achieve this objective and focus on:

•Adding digital tools and services to deepen engagement with customers and vendors and continuing to develop a transformative, fully digital platform to further simplify, automate, digitize and scale the delivery of our products and solutions portfolio. Through our Xvantage platform, we deliver a singular business-to-consumer-like experience to our vendor and customer partners in the B2B market to interact, learn, partner, plan and consume technology via seamless and autonomous engines.

•Growing our emerging technologies practices, including cybersecurity and AI, and further extending our technology portfolio to build out additional higher value, more complex product and services offerings.

•Enhancing profitability through operational improvement initiatives, digitization and automation.

Our Products and Solutions

We provide a broad line of technology, services and solutions from approximately 1,500 vendor partners, enabling us to offer comprehensive solutions to our reseller customers. Our suppliers are the world’s most trusted technology leaders, along with emerging technology brands, which include the industry’s premier hyperscalers, computer hardware suppliers, mobility hardware suppliers, networking equipment suppliers and software publishers such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, Advanced Micro Devices, Apple, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., Lenovo, and Super Micro Computer.

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We also work with suppliers of computer peripherals, consumer electronics, cloud-based solutions, unified communication and collaboration, data capture/point-of-sale (“DC / POS”), cybersecurity, and physical security products. Our cloud portfolio comprises third-party services and subscriptions spanning a breadth of products from solution software to infrastructure-as-a-service. Our Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace service portfolio consists of third-party cloud-based services or subscription offerings sold through our own platform. Vendors on the platform include Proofpoint, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Cisco and Adobe. We sell products purchased from many vendors, but generated approximately 21%, 19% and 16% of our consolidated net sales in Fiscal Year 2025, Fiscal Year 2024 and Fiscal Year 2023, respectively, from products purchased from Apple Inc. Additionally, we generated approximately 9%, 10%, and 10% of our consolidated net sales in Fiscal Year 2025, Fiscal Year 2024, and Fiscal Year 2023, respectively, from products purchased from HP Inc. We also generated approximately 10%, 7%, and 7% of our consolidated net sales during the Fiscal Year 2025, Fiscal Year 2024 and Fiscal Year 2023, respectively, from products purchased from Lenovo.

Our cloud marketplace, which in many key markets has already been integrated into one unified Ingram Micro Xvantage platform, connects partners with what we believe to be the world’s largest cloud ecosystem, enabling them to generate demand more efficiently and provide third-party cloud-based services and subscription offerings through a digital platform for the consumption of cloud solutions in an ever-increasing cloud-centric world. We support more than 200 cloud solutions and manage over 40 million seats through our cloud marketplace. Our professional services offerings add value to our partners and customers by providing data-driven business and market insights, pre-sales engineering, post-sale integration, technical support, trade credit, and financing solutions to further grow their businesses. In addition, our IT Asset Disposition (“ITAD”) and Reverse Logistics and Repairs businesses play an important role in advancing environmental sustainability and bridging the digital divide through electronic device reverse logistics, refurbishment, recycling, reuse and resale for organizations, including the world’s largest mobile telecommunication providers. By helping to enable a circular economy, we help our customers in achieving their sustainability goals and enable consumers to access high-quality, affordable smartphones, computers and other devices.

We categorize our product and service offerings into the following categories, each of which is offered in each of our four geographic segments:

•Client and Endpoint Solutions. We offer a variety of higher-volume products targeted for corporate and individual end users, including desktop personal computers, notebooks, tablets, printers, components (including hard drives, motherboards, video cards, etc.), application software, peripherals, and accessories. We also offer a variety of products that enable mobile computing and productivity, including phones, phone tablets (including two-in-one “notebook/tablet” devices), smartphones, feature phones, mobile phone accessories, wearables and mobility software.

•Advanced Solutions. We offer enterprise-grade hardware and software products aimed at corporate and enterprise users and generally characterized by specific projects, which generally account for lower volumes than Client and Endpoint Solutions but higher margins individually and collectively in the form of solutions and related services. And while Advanced Solutions offerings often require higher operational expenditures, primarily in the form of technical capabilities to serve the market, the operating margin delivered by this business is also generally stronger than Client and Endpoint Solutions. Within this product category, we offer servers, storage, networking, hybrid and software-defined solutions, cybersecurity, and power and cooling solutions. This category also includes training, professional services and financing solutions related to these product sets. We also offer customers AI-related products and offerings, DC / POS, physical security, audio visual & digital signage, Unified Communications and Collaboration (“UCC”), and IoT (smart office/home automation) products.

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•Cloud-based Solutions: Our cloud portfolio comprises third-party services and subscriptions spanning a breadth of products from solution software through infrastructure-as-a-service. As technology consumption increasingly moves to anything-as-a-service, we have expanded our cloud solutions to more than 200 third-party cloud-based services or subscription offerings, including business applications, security, communications and collaboration, cloud enablement solutions and infrastructure-as-a-service. Also included here have been the offerings of our CloudBlue business, which provided customers with multichannel and multi-tier catalog management, subscription management, billing and orchestration capabilities through a software-as-a-service model. Our CloudBlue operations were sold during the third quarter of 2025.

•Other: We provide customers with ITAD, reverse logistics and repair and other related solutions. These offerings represent less than 5% of net sales for all periods presented herein.

Our Customers

We distribute IT and mobility solutions to more than 165,000 reseller customers, including most of the leading resellers of IT products and services around the world and with many of the world’s leading mobility companies. We serve a customer base that includes value-added resellers, corporate resellers, retailers, custom installers, systems integrators, mobile network operators, mobile virtual network operators, direct marketers, internet-based resellers, independent dealers, product category specialists, reseller purchasing associations, managed service providers, cloud services providers, PC assemblers, independent agents and dealers, IT and mobile device manufacturers and other distributors. Our customers serve an end-user base from large enterprise to small- and medium-sized businesses, including public sector and retail/e-tail. Many of our customers are heavily dependent on partners with the necessary systems, capital, inventory availability, logistics capabilities and distribution and repair facilities in place to provide fulfillment and other services. We benefit from a broad geographic presence in 57 countries that in turn can service more than 90% of the world’s population across more than 200 countries globally and are trusted by many of the world’s leading telecommunications companies, mobile operators and retail and consumer brands. We aim to reduce our exposure to the impact of business fluctuations by maintaining a balance in the customer categories we serve. No single customer accounted for more than 10% of our total net sales in any of the periods presented herein.

Sales & Marketing

Our global, customer-facing sales and marketing team, enabled by our Xvantage platform, drives our go-to-market model centered on a deep understanding of our customer needs, and a goal to provide the industry’s broadest solutions offering to meet evolving customer demand and the increasing complexity of technology. We have operations in 57 countries, spanning all global regions, while also serving many additional geographies through various export sales offices, including general telesales operations into numerous markets. Our sales teams work closely with our marketing organization to actively pursue leads generated from marketing programs and guide prospective customers through the sales process.

Our marketing effort is focused on generating awareness of Ingram Micro’s solutions offerings, creating sales leads, establishing and promoting our brand and our vendor partners’ products. Additionally, we offer a wide range of training, professional services, education and support offerings to enable our customers to rapidly onboard, adopt and ultimately realize value from our solutions.

Our sales and marketing organization includes sales development, sales operations, field sales and marketing personnel. As of December 27, 2025, we had approximately 9,800 associates in our sales and marketing organizations spanning all global regions.

International Operations

Approximately 66%, 66% and 64% of our consolidated net sales for Fiscal Year 2025, Fiscal Year 2024 and Fiscal Year 2023, respectively, were generated by our international operations. As our international operations constitute a significant portion of our consolidated net sales, they are subject to fluctuations in the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies.

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Seasonality

We experience some seasonal fluctuations in demand in our business. For instance, we typically see lower demand, particularly in Europe, during the summer months. Additionally, we also experience an increase in demand in the fourth quarter, driven primarily by typical enterprise budgeting cycles across our geographies and business categories and the pre-holiday stocking and associated higher logistics-based fulfillment fees, which tends to have greater seasonal impact on our Client and Endpoint Solutions and Other categories. These seasonal fluctuations have historically impacted our revenue and working capital including receivables, payables and inventory. Our extensive experience combined with a flexible workforce allows us to modulate our operations and workforce demand fluctuations throughout the year.

Competition

We operate in a competitive environment globally. Competition in our business is based primarily on factors such as level of service, the breadth and availability of products and solutions, subscription management capabilities, credit terms and availability, price, financing solutions, speed of delivery, effectiveness of sales and marketing programs, real-time analytic offerings and the platform and tools we use to provide these offerings. We compete with other high-volume and value-added international distributors, as well as numerous other smaller, specialized local and regional competitors who generally focus on narrower markets, products, or particular sectors. We also face competition from our vendors that sell directly to resellers, retailers and end-users. Our top competitors include global companies such as TD Synnex, Arrow Electronics, Inc., Scansource, Inc., Westcon-Comstor, and Synnex Technology International, and local and regional distributors such as Also Holding, Esprinet, Redington, Exclusive Networks, Intcomex, D&H, Carahsoft, AppDirect and Pax8, along with a number of other smaller local distributors. We believe that we are well-equipped to outperform our competitors in all areas due to our comprehensive product and service offerings, broad global reach, highly skilled workforce and global distribution network.

Government Regulation

We are subject to a number of U.S. federal, U.S. state and foreign laws and regulations, covering tax, environmental (relating to product stewardship, including the European Union Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive), labor and employment, workplace safety advertising, intellectual property, federal securities, trade protection, anti-money-laundering, anti-corruption and anti-bribery, anti-competition, antitrust, internet and e-commerce, network security, encryption, payments and consumer protection relating to the promotion and sale of merchandise and the operation of fulfillment centers. The products we sell may be subject to tariffs, treaties and various trade agreements, as well as foreign and domestic laws and regulations affecting the import and export of IT products. For more information on the risks associated with complying with applicable laws, please see “Risk Factors—Risks Related to the Macroeconomic and Regulatory Environment—We operate a global business that exposes us to risks associated with conducting business in multiple jurisdictions” and “Risk Factors—Risks Related to the Macroeconomic and Regulatory Environment—Our failure to comply with the requirements of environmental, health and safety regulations or other laws and regulations applicable to a distributor of consumer products could adversely affect our business.”

We are also subject to data privacy, data security and data protection laws and regulations that impose restrictions on the collection, processing and use of personal data in the jurisdictions in which we operate. For instance, we are subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (“CCPA”) and other U.S. state comprehensive privacy laws; the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and European Economic Area (“EEA”) member state implementing laws, including as retained in U.K. law; other similar laws in Brazil and elsewhere; restrictions related to e-marketing, including the ePrivacy Directive in the EEA and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation in the United Kingdom; and data localization requirements in China. The legal and regulatory environment in this space is constantly developing, with an expanding number of jurisdictions considering or enacting new privacy or data security laws, which may not correspond with previously enacted requirements. Ensuring our ongoing compliance with any new requirements may generate additional or unanticipated costs, or otherwise impact our financial condition. For more information on risks related to the development of these laws, see “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Information Technology, Data Privacy and Intellectual Property—Changes in the regulatory environment regarding privacy and data protection regulations could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.”

We monitor changes in the laws and regulations to which we are subject. Our legal and compliance team and our information security team oversee our data protection strategy and monitor our compliance with laws and regulations generally. These teams manage, implement and oversee internal privacy policies and security measures, including regular monitoring and testing of systems and equipment.

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We believe that we are in material compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and we are not aware of any laws or regulations that are likely to materially impact our net sales, cash flow or competitive positions or result in any material expenditures. However, many of the laws and regulations to which we are subject continue to develop and could be interpreted, applied or amended in ways that are unfavorable to our business.

Our Trademarks and Service Marks

We own or license various trademarks and service marks, including, among others, “Ingram Micro,” the Ingram Micro logo, “Aptec,” “Xvantage” and “Trust X Alliance.” as well as patents related to proprietary technology supporting our Xvantage platform. Certain of these marks are registered, or are in the process of being registered, in the United States and various other countries. Even though our marks are not registered in every country where we conduct business, in many cases we have acquired rights in those marks because of our continued use of them.

Human Capital Resources

As of December 27, 2025, we had approximately 22,200 full-time associates. Additionally, as of December 27, 2025 we utilized the services of approximately 5,800 full-time equivalent temporary or contract workers at peak, who provide us with the workforce agility we require. Works councils or unions represent some of our associates in certain countries, almost exclusively where required by local regulations or brought in through acquisitions; our U.S. associates are not represented by a labor union, nor are they covered by a collective bargaining agreement.

Ethical Conduct

We believe our culture of ethics and integrity is built on a foundation of strong corporate governance, encapsulated in our Code of Conduct. Fair business practices are fundamental to our ability to establish trust with our partners, our associates and the communities in which we operate as well as maintain our reputation. Our ethical compliance program, which is overseen by the audit committee of our board of directors, covers areas such as anti-corruption, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering and harassment and whistleblower compliance. The program spans all our entities, across all operating regions and markets in which we have a presence. We are also a member of the Global Technology Distribution Council, which comprises the technology industry’s top wholesale distributors who drive more than $150 billion in annual worldwide sales, allowing us to participate in the development of an industry approach to address corruption.

Total Rewards

We believe people should be paid for what they do and how they do it, regardless of their personal characteristics. To deliver on that commitment, we benchmark and set pay ranges based on market data and consider factors such as an associate’s role and experience, the location of their job and their performance. We also review our compensation practices, both in terms of our overall workforce and individual associates, to ensure our pay is fair and equitable. We have reviewed the compensation of associates to ensure consistent pay practices by conducting annual rewards equity reviews.

We offer total rewards that are market-competitive and performance-based, driving innovation and operational excellence. Our compensation programs, practices and policies reflect our commitment to reward short- and long-term performance that aligns with, and drives, value for our owners. Total direct compensation is generally positioned within a competitive range of the market median, with differentiation based on tenure, skills, proficiency and performance to attract and retain key talent.

Associate Engagement

We regularly collect feedback to better understand and improve the associate experience and identify opportunities to continually strengthen our culture. We want to know what is working well, what we can do better and how well our associates understand our priorities and live by the Tenets of Our Success. In 2025, 83% of respondents who received our full associate survey participated. Our results approximated or exceeded our survey provider’s High Performance Benchmark in six of thirteen categories, and equaled or increased our favorable results in five of six categories compared with our October 2024 pulse survey.

We help our associates and communities thrive through career development programs, embracing inclusivity and diversity while promoting service and our continued focus on health and safety. We are proud to support the philanthropic interests of our associates through volunteerism and giving programs.

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Training and Development

People development is foundational to our success. We continually invest in our associates’ career growth and provide a wide range of development opportunities. In 2025, approximately 64% of our executive positions were filled with internal candidates. We also deployed a new career development framework to further accelerate the development of our colleagues at all levels and areas of the business.

Health, Safety and Wellness

The physical health, financial well-being, life balance and mental health of our associates is vital to our success. Throughout the year, we encourage healthy behaviors through regular communications, educational sessions, voluntary progress tracking, wellness challenges and other incentives. We offer a global employee assistance program to ensure that all associates and their immediate families have access to many tools and sources of support that address their financial, physical and mental well-being. Our warehouse and integration facilities continue to represent our most significant health and safety risks. Our global health and safety leadership team uses our global injury and illness reporting system to assess trends regionally and worldwide as part of quarterly reviews. Managing and reducing risks at these facilities remains a focus, and injury rates continue to be low.

Sustainable Impact

Our Sustainable Impact program is overseen by an executive steering committee consisting of our:

•Chief Executive Officer,

•Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer,

•Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel,

•Executive Vice President, Human Resources, and

•Executive Vice President, Global Operations and Engineering.

This executive steering committee receives periodic briefings from our Sustainable Impact team and individual program owners. Responsibility is one of the Tenets of Our Success as a company, and environmental stewardship is one area in which we demonstrate our responsibility. We have established targets for greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions and waste in our operations. In December 2024, Ingram Micro received approval from the Science Based Targets initiative for its near-term climate targets, including its goal to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 90% by 2030, using a 2022 base year.

To support a circular economy, our ITAD business focuses on the reuse and recycling of electronics, and, as of December 27, 2025, four of our ITAD processing facilities held e-Stewards certifications, three of which were in North America. Since 2019, we have been a registered SmartWay Shipper Partner in the Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay Program, which allows us to benchmark our performance and assess the environmental impact of our transportation in the United States, as well as measure the fuel efficiency of our carrier partners, helping us address the carbon impacts of goods movement within our value chain.

In late 2025, the Company’s broad-based sustainability efforts were recognized by EcoVadis, a well-known third-party provider of evidence-based business sustainability assessments, who gave Ingram Micro a Gold medal rating, reserved for the top five percent of the rated companies on its platform. We believe this recognition signifies a substantial validation of our company’s commitment and leadership in sustainable and responsible business operations.

Ingram Micro reports climate change-related data and information annually through the Carbon Disclosure Project (“CDP”). In 2025, Ingram Micro achieved a CDP Climate Change score of ‘B’, which is the Management level under CDP's scoring methodology. This score reflects evidence of implementing actions, policies, and processes to manage climate change-related risks and opportunities.

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Available Information

Our website is http://www.ingrammicro.com. We make available free of charge, on or through our website, our Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports, if any, or other filings filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act as soon as reasonably practicable after electronically filing or furnishing these reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). We also make available free of charge on our investor relations website at ir.ingrammicro.com our Audit Committee Charter, Compensation Committee Charter, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Charter, Code of Conduct, Corporate Governance Guidelines, Insider Trading Policy, Board Communications with Stockholders Policy, Anti-Bribery policy, and Non-Retaliation Policies.

The SEC maintains an Internet site at http://www.sec.gov that contains our Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports, if any, or other filings filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, and our proxy and information statements. Unless expressly noted, the information on our website, including our investor relations website, or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K or any other filing we make with the SEC.