Custom Meta Tags

Hero Banner

Ethics and Compliance

Main Title

Values that guide every action

Values that influence every action - Mixed Media

Avnet’s culture is based on deep-rooted values: integrity, customer focus, ownership, teamwork, and inclusiveness. These values can be traced back to the character and integrity of Charles Avnet, who founded the company a century ago. Today, they influence our every action, resulting in a workforce of nearly 14,500 individuals committed to doing business the right way.

We work to continuously improve and strengthen our corporate governance and responsible business practices. We are proactive about critical issues such as anti-corruption and human rights. We comply with local and global regulations at a minimum, but, more important, we work at maximizing our positive impacts while minimizing any negative impacts.

We are guided by polices such as the Avnet Code of Conduct, which sets standards in areas such as human rights, anti-corruption, data security and privacy, non-discrimination, diversity and equal opportunity, and workplace health and safety. The Code of Conduct applies to all employees, officers, members of our board of directors, and the company’s subsidiaries around the world. It is translated into 15 languages. All new employees are asked to review the Code of Conduct and employees are trained on it at least every two years.

A pledge of transparency - Mixed Media

A comprehensive ethics program

Avnet’s ethics and compliance program puts principles into practice and includes the following:

Ensuring oversight of ethics and compliance.
Establishing and implementing relevant policies, such as the Code of Conduct.
Requiring ethics and compliance training for employees globally.
Creating awareness around ethics and compliance through communications
Conducting auditing and monitoring of the program, such as anti-corruption risk assessments.
Providing mechanisms for reporting concerns (including the Ethics Alertline), conducting investigations, and taking corrective action, as needed.
Reporting on ethics and compliance to both executive leadership and the audit committee of the board of directors.
Engaging in continuous improvement of the program.

Call-out-new

“Our goal is to have a comprehensive and effective ethics and compliance program that is designed to prevent and detect misconduct, is empowered and supported by our leadership, and works, as a practical matter – because our stakeholders -- including our customers, suppliers, partners, investors, communities and employees -- trust Avnet to do business the right way.” – Tash Price, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer