UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
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PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
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Date
of Report (date of earliest event reported): February 6,
2008
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(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
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Delaware
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1-7201
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33-0379007
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(State
or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(I.R.S.
Employer Identification Number)
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801
17th Avenue South
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Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina
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29577
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(Address
of principal executive offices)
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(Zip
Code)
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(843)
448-9411
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(Registrant's
telephone number, including area
code)
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Item
5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
Officers.
On
February 6, 2008, the Board of Directors of AVX Corporation (the “Company”)
appointed Mr. Kensuke Itoh to the Board to serve out the remaining term of Mr.
Masahiro Umemura, who passed away on December 25, 2007. Mr. Umemura was a Class
III Director whose term was set to expire at the Company’s 2008 Annual
Meeting.
Mr. Itoh
was previously a member of the Company’s Board of Directors from 1990 to 2007
and Vice-Chairman of the Board from 1997 to 2002. He has been an
Executive Advisor of Kyocera Corporation (“Kyocera”), the Company’s majority
shareholder, since 2005 and a Representative Director of Kyocera since
1985. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kyocera from 1999
to 2005.
See Note
12 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements in its Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2007 and “Relationship with Kyocera and
Related Transactions” in the Company’s proxy statement for its 2007 Annual
Meeting of Shareholders for information required under Item 404(a) of Regulation
S-K concerning the Company’s relationship with Kyocera. Such
information is incorporated herein by reference.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
duly authorized.
Date: February
8, 2008
AVX
CORPORATION
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By:
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/s/
Kurt P. Cummings
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Name:
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Kurt
P. Cummings
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Title:
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Vice
President,
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Chief
Financial Officer,
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Treasurer
and
Secretary
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