Top 100 Connector Manufacturers

Bishop & Associates has just released a new ten-chapter research report providing a comprehensive analysis of the world’s Top 100 Electronic Connector Manufacturers. This new report furnishes detailed statistics that benchmark the leading connector manufacturers by 2023/2024 total sales, sales by end-use equipment market, sales by product category, and sales by region. All manufacturers are exhibited by 2024 sales and are ranked by region of the world with percentage year-to-year change. This report provides all the key data needed to analyze the sales performance of each of the top 100 worldwide electronic connector suppliers.

The world’s top 100 connector manufacturers recorded shipments of $70.060 billion in 2024. This represented 81.0% of the worldwide connector market, down from 82.4% in 2023. The balance of the connector industry had shipments of $16.417 billion in 2024 and represented 19.0% of the total market.

Over the last decade, we have identified more than 750 connector manufacturers, many of which have been acquired by larger companies or consolidated to form new connector companies. In fact, if you were to review the list of top 100 connector companies in 2000 with the list of top 100 connector companies in 2024, you would see that a large percentage of the companies listed in 2000 were acquired by other companies. In fact, in just the last several years, names like CONEC, ERNI, Positronic, Genesis Connector Technology, and Winchester, all at one time, top 100 place holders have been acquired. It doesn’t appear this consolidation will end anytime soon. In 2023 we lost Carlisle Interconnect (#24 in 2023) when they were acquired by Amphenol, and in 2025 we will lose CommScope (#25 in 2024) and AirBorn (#41 in 2024). CommScope will be folded in with Amphenol and AirBorn will become part of Molex.

These changes are allowing new companies to appear on Bishop’s list of top 100 connector manufacturers. Companies like Qnnect, a portfolio company comprised of connector manufacturers such as Cristek, Fil-Con, Connectronics, and Meritec/Joy Signal, are now listed as the 27th largest connector manufacturer. And a company like Southwest Microwave, who offers a highly focused product offering, is now part of the top 100. As would be expected, we anticipate continuing to discover additional connector companies, especially in China and other developing countries, as well as non-connector companies who are expanding their current product offering to include interconnect, or who are developing application specific connectors to support their other products.

The table on the following page shows percent of sales for the top 100 connector manufacturers, and all other connector manufacturers by geographic region. Show more