High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! AVX Corporation, a 71 percent owned subsidiary of Kyocera Electronics Corporation, is a manufacturer of electronic components headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. It is the largest industrial employer in Horry County, South Carolina, with almost 1000 workers in Myrtle Beach and Conway. AVX has 9,900 employees and operates in the United States, Europe and Asia. 2012 sales were $1.545 billion. Capital expenditure for the year 2010 was at a five year low of $28.888 million 34.6% lower than the year before and 2.5 times less than in 2008, earnings per share grew 78.7% even though total sales fell (although revenue grew with each successive quarter since April 2009)