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Exhibit 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each of the undersigned directors and officers of AVX Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby severally constitutes and appoints
Benedict P. Rosen, John S. Gilbertson and Donald B. Christiansen, and each of
them, to be his Attorney-in-Fact with full power of substitution to act in his
name on his behalf to sign and to file with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1) under the Securities Act of 1933, Registration Statements on Form
S-8 (the "Registration Statement"), or other appropriate Forms, and any and all
amendments to any such Registration Statement, for shares of the Corporation's
Common Stock, $.01 par value, and other interests therein issuable under each of
the following employee benefit plans as the same may be amended from time to
time, (i) AVX Corporation 1995 Stock Option Plan, (ii) AVX Corporation
Non-Employee Directors' Stock Option Plan, (iii) AVX Corporation Retirement
Plan, (iv) AVX Corporation Stock Bonus Plan, (v) AVX Corporation Non-qualified
Supplemental Retirement Plan, (vi) AVX Corporation SERP, (vii) AVX Tantalum
Corporation Stock Bonus Plan (viii) AVX Vancouver Corporation Savings and Stock
Bonus Plan, (viv) AVX Corporation 401(K) Plan for Hourly Employees at Myrtle
Beach and Conway Plants and (2) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31,
2000 and in each case, to execute and deliver any agreements, instruments,
certificates or other documents which such person shall deem necessary or proper
in connection with the filing of any such Registration Statement or Annual
Report and generally to act for and in the name of the undersigned with respect
to any such filing as fully as could the undersigned if then personally present
and acting.
IN WITNESS WHERE OF, the undersigned has executed this
Power-of-Attorney on the date set opposite his respective name.
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SIGNATURES TITLE DATE
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/s/ KAZUO INAMORI Chairman Emeritus of the Board and December 14, 1999
-------------------------- Director
/s/ BENEDICT P. ROSEN Chief Executive Officer and Chairman July 15, 1999
-------------------------- of the Board and Director
/s/ JOHN S. GILBERTSON President and Chief Operating Officer July 15, 1999
-------------------------- and Director
/s/ DONALD B. CHRISTIANSEN Chief Financial Officer, Sr. VP of July 15, 1999
-------------------------- Finance and Director
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SIGNATURES TITLE DATE
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/s/ CARROLL CAMPBELL Director July 15, 1999
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/s/ RODNEY LANTHORNE Director June 2, 2000
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/s/ RICHARD TRESSLER Director June 2, 2000
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/s/ HENRY C. LUCAS Director July 15, 1999
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/s/ KENSUKE ITOH Director July 15, 1999
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/s/ MASAHIRO UMEMURA Director July 15, 1999
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/s/ MICHIHISA YAMAMOTO Director December 6, 1999
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/s/ YUZO YAMAMURA Director December 14, 1999
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/s/ YASUO NISHIGUCHI Director December 6, 1999
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