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If you see some familiar names in the ranking of the 50 Largest Electrical Distributors in North America below, some of the distributor branches your company’s employees stop by for supplies on the way to job sites on many mornings may be part of much bigger organizations than you thought.
The size of many of the companies in this ranking, published annually by the editors of Electrical Wholesaling, EC&M’s sister publication, may surprise you. You have five full-line electrical distributors with a national focus — Sonepar North America, Charleston, S.C.; WESCO International, Pittsburgh, Pa; Graybar Electric Co., St. Louis; Rexel USA, Dallas; and Consolidated Electrical Distributors (CED), Irving, Texas, that together account for at least 33% of the $100 billion in supplies sold through distributors of electrical supplies. Two of these companies — Sonepar and Rexel — have a truly global focus, as together they operate a combined total of 4,812 branches in dozens of countries around the world.
The rest of the 10 largest distributors on this list each do close to or more than $1 billion in sales annually, and they individually each have a higher individual sales volume...