Smith Snapshot
Smith provides total open-market inventory solutions for leading high-tech manufacturers worldwide using our global network of customer-focused teams. Our commitment to continuous improvement sets high standards for a rapidly changing industry.
Technology connects the world. Smith helps keep technology connected.
Smith started in an empty living room in Houston, where its owners, brothers Bob and Lee Ackerley, sat on the floor alongside their wives and made their first sales over two phone lines. From the growing tech landscape of 1984 to today, Smith has spent nearly four decades learning the industry and manufacturers’ needs inside and out. Smith offers fast and flexible distribution of semiconductors and active, passive, electromechanical, and other components. The company also specializes in tailored customer support, from procurement and ITAD services to rigorous quality and anti-counterfeit testing geared to meet the unique needs of the automotive, computing, consumer electronics, mobile, and other evolving industries.
With eighteen offices worldwide, Smith is always on: twenty-four seven, around the world.
Smith started in an empty living room in Houston, where its owners, brothers Bob and Lee Ackerley, sat on the floor alongside their wives and made their first sales over two phone lines. From the growing tech landscape of 1984 to today, Smith has spent nearly four decades learning the industry and manufacturers’ needs inside and out. Smith offers fast and flexible distribution of semiconductors and active, passive, electromechanical, and other components. The company also specializes in tailored customer support, from procurement and ITAD services to rigorous quality and anti-counterfeit testing geared to meet the unique needs of the automotive, computing, consumer electronics, mobile, and other evolving industries.
With eighteen offices worldwide, Smith is always on: twenty-four seven, around the world.
