2010's The Five Largest Electrical Distributors

In 2010, the five largest electrical distributors had an estimated $22.68 billion in revenue and operated 2,261 branches

June 27, 2011

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Company Name Town/City 2010 Revenue Electrical employees Number of U.S. locations: Sonepar North America* Paris, France 5,238,000,000 NA 582 Rexel (Rexel/Gexpro)* Dallas 4,793,000,000 7,436 531 Graybar Electric Co. * St. Louis, MO 4,616,377,000 7,000 245 WESCO International** Pittsburgh 4,198,420,000 6,800 325 Consolidated Electrical Distributors Westlake Village, CA NA 6,200e 578 In 2010, the five largest electrical distributors had an estimated $22.68 billion in revenue and operated 2,261 branches. EW estimates in 2010 the five largest distributors operate a total of 90 fewer branches the number of branches than in 2009. These five companies accounted for 28 percent of industry sales, according to Electrical Wholesaling sales data. (*All data for North Amerca / **World-wide employment data; other data for North America)

The World's Two Largest Electrical Distributors

Company Name Town/City Revenue Electrical employees Number of locations: Sonepar SA, Paris* Paris, France $19.32 billion 31,518 2,015 Rexel SA, Paris** Dallas $17.3 billion 28,000 2,200 (*2009 sales data/ **2010 company data) The two largest distributors in the world operate more than 4,000 branches between them and have more than 59,000 employees. While Sonepar has not yet published its 2010 sales, it's safe to say these two companies did more than $35 billion in combined sales in 2010.