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Top 200 Analysis
Jun 13, 2008 1:00 PM,
Recession talk. Consolidation. Inflation. Wild copper and steel pricing. Skyrocketing fuel and health-care costs. With these headaches pounding on the electrical wholesaling industry, one might expect this year's Top 200 companies not to be the most optimistic bunch of electrical distributors....
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Sections: Growth, Green Market, Consolidation, By the Numbers
Penton Online Data Store:
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| Rank |
Company |
Headquarters |
2007 Revenue |
| 1 |
International Electric Supply Corp. (Rexel/Gexpro) |
Dallas |
6,100,000,000 ** |
| 2 |
Graybar Electric Co. Inc. |
St. Louis |
5,258,300,693 |
| 3 |
WESCO Distribution |
Pittsburgh |
5,229,147,000 |
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Anixter Inc. (Anixter International) |
Skokie, Ill. |
4,106,300,000** |
| 5 |
Consolidated Electrical Distributors Inc. |
Westlake Village, Calif. |
NA |
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Top 25 as Ranked by Sales Per Employee
Jun 13, 2008 1:03 PM,
As in the past, specialty distributors, which tend to have fewer customers and employees than full-line electrical distributors, dominate the list of distributors as ranked by sales per employee....
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Top 200 Electrical Distributors Aquired 2007-2008
Jun 13, 2008 1:07 PM,
Eight Top 200 distributors were acquired last year and three more have been sold so far in 2008. But 2006 will go down in the industry's history books as perhaps the most active acquisition year ever....
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2007-2008 Acquisitions in the Electrical Market
Jun 13, 2008 1:11 PM,
Electrical Marketing newsletter has reported on 40 acquisitions in 2007-2008. Add in the 34 acquisitions that occurred in 2006 and the 26 the publication reported on in 2005 and you have at least 100 acquisitions of distributors of electrical supplies in 2005-2008....
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Top 200 Annual Sales 2003-2007
Jun 13, 2008 1:13 PM,
The Top 200 electrical distributors' share of total industry sales has increased from 48 percent in 2003 to an estimated 60.7 percent in 2007....
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The Biggest Electrical Distributors on the Planet
Jun 13, 2008 1:19 PM,
Rexel SA and Sonepar SA, the two biggest electrical distributors in the world, had another busy year on the acquisition trail. The big news was Rexel's purchase of Hagemeyer and its sale of that company's U.S. operations to Sonepar USA and its integration of Gexpro (formerly GE Supply) into its operations....
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The Five Largest Electrical Distributors
Jun 13, 2008 1:24 PM,
The electrical industry's five largest distributors accounted for an estimated 25.9 percent of total industry sales. That percentage is roughly the same as last year. The companies accounted for roughly 43 percent of Top 200 sales in 2007....
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