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## PART I 

## Item 1. Business 

## General 

Amphenol Corporation ("Amphenol" or the "Company") is one of the world's largest designers, manufacturers and marketers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors, interconnect systems and coaxial and flat-ribbon cable. The Company was incorporated in 1987. Certain predecessor businesses, which now constitute part of the Company, have been in business since 1932. The primary end markets for the Company's products are: 

• communication systems for the converging technologies of voice, video and data communications; 

• a broad range of industrial applications including factory automation and motion control systems, medical and industrial instrumentation, mass transportation and natural resource exploration, and automotive applications; and 

• commercial and military aerospace applications. 

The Company's strategy is to provide its customers with comprehensive design capabilities, a broad selection of products and a high level of service on a worldwide basis while maintaining continuing programs of productivity improvement and cost control. For 2004, the Company reported net sales, operating income and net income of $1,530.4 million, $276.6 million and $163.3 million, respectively. The table below summarizes information regarding the Company's primary markets and end applications for the Company's products: 

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