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Measuring Your Metros

July 31, 2019
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Chicago dwarfs other cities in the East North Central Region like Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit and Milwaukee in terms of electrical sales potential, but the construction market has been relatively quiet lately. Some parts of Ohio are enjoying a booming business in shale gas-related construction.
Chicago dwarfs other cities in the East North Central Region like Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit and Milwaukee in terms of electrical sales potential, but the construction market has been relatively quiet lately. Some parts of Ohio are enjoying a booming business in shale gas-related construction.
Chicago dwarfs other cities in the East North Central Region like Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit and Milwaukee in terms of electrical sales potential, but the construction market has been relatively quiet lately. Some parts of Ohio are enjoying a booming business in shale gas-related construction.
Chicago dwarfs other cities in the East North Central Region like Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit and Milwaukee in terms of electrical sales potential, but the construction market has been relatively quiet lately. Some parts of Ohio are enjoying a booming business in shale gas-related construction.
Chicago dwarfs other cities in the East North Central Region like Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit and Milwaukee in terms of electrical sales potential, but the construction market has been relatively quiet lately. Some parts of Ohio are enjoying a booming business in shale gas-related construction.

2014 East North Central Region Forecast

Nov. 14, 2013
Oil and gas development in the region is driving growth in construction for pipelines, processing facilities and power plants. Chicago office construction is still pretty soft. Overall, the region's electrical sales should grow 4.7% in 2014.

Energy projects will offers sales opportunities for the electrical market in this region, with the oil/gas renaissance, utility construction and a planned new power plant in Indiana among the largest projects. The region’s Utica shale deposits are attracting much of the attention. According to a report by the Benesch law firm in Columbus, Ohio, 133 pipeline projects and/or process facilities currently are either planned or have been started by companies including Pennant Midstream, MarkWest Utica EMG and Crosstex Energy. In the planning stages for this region are Tenaska's plans for a $500 million 900MW natural gas-fired power plant in Morristown, Ind., and American Transmission Co.’s transmission upgrade project that’s on the drawing boards for Wisconsin, upper Michigan, Iowa and Illinois, which could cost more than $3 billion over 10 years. The office construction market is still fairly soft in Chicago, although a few large projects are in the planning stage. Also on the drawing boards in Chicago is a $500 million renovation of the Port of Chicago shipping facility.

Acquisition activity in the East North Central Region. Electrical Marketing newsletter reported on 16 acquisitions in this region over the past five years. Details 

TOP 200  ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS

WITH THEIR HEADQUARTERS IN THIS REGION

The industrial market is slowly improving for distributors in this region that focus on the auto industry and related businesses and other industrial niches like servicing farm machinery factories and food processing plants. Details

Rank Company Name Town/City State
5 Anixter International Skokie IL
8 W.W. Grainger Inc. Lake Forest IL
10 Crescent Electric Supply Co. East Dubuque IL
12 McNaughton-McKay Electric Co. Madison Heights MI
18 Kendall Electric Inc. Portage MI
27 Kirby Risk Electric Supply (Kirby Risk Corp.) Lafayette IN
30 Steiner Electric Co. Elk Grove IL
31 Werner Electric Supply Neenah WI
34 Power Line Supply (Utility Supply & Construction Co.) Reed City MI
38  IEWC (Industrial Electric Wire & Cable) New Berlin WI
41 Rural Electric Supply Cooperative (RESCO) Middleton WI
48 Springfield Electric Supply Co. Springfield IL
50 WinWholesale Inc. Dayton OH
61 Standard Electric Company Saginaw MI
64 Professionial Electric Products (PEPCO) Eastlake OH
72 Revere Electric Supply Co. Chicago IL
76 Electro-Matic Products Inc.  Farmington Hills MI
81 Loeb Electric Columbus OH
83 Leff Electric (acquired by AMP Electrical Distribution Solutions) Brooklyn Hts. OH
84 Becker Electric Supply Dayton OH
87 Richards Electric Supply Co. Inc. Cincinnati OH
91 Windy City Wire LLC Bolingbrook  IL
92 Madison Electric Co. Warren MI
94 CBT Co. Cincinnati OH
96 Standard Electric Supply Co Milwaukee WI
97 Sunrise Electric Supply Addison IL
106 Paramont-EO Inc. Minooka IL
118 Connexion (LAB Development) Buffalo Grove IL
120 Mars Electric Co. Willoughby OH
122 Wolff Brothers Supply Inc. Medina OH
129 Advance Electrical Supply Co. Inc. Chicago IL
131 Wabash Electric Wabash IN
139 Dickman Supply Inc. Sidney OH
142 Medler Electric Co. Alma MI
143 K/E Electric Supply Mount Clemens MI
148 Winkle Electric Co., Inc. Youngstown OH
150 Nelson Electric Supply Co. Inc. Racine WI
152 Raymond de Steiger Inc. Sterling Heights MI
155 Caniff Electric Supply Co. Inc. Hamtramck  MI 
162 Hein Electric Supply Co. Brookfield WI
164 Central Supply Co. Indianapolis IN
166 Metro Wire & Cable Corp. Sterling Heights MI
168 Michigan Electric Supply Co. Flint MI
172 Amperage Electrical Supply Inc. Roselle IL
175 Edison Equipment/PEPCO Columbus OH
176 Idlewood Electric Supply Inc. Highland Park IL
180 Allied Wholesale Electrical Supply Inc. Indianapolis IN
184 BJ Electric Supply Inc. Madison WI
192 Gross Electric Toledo OH
197 Active Electrical Supply Co.  Chicago IL
198 Brownstown Electric Supply Co. Inc.  Brownstown  IN

RECENT BRANCH OPENINGS IN THE EAST NORTH CENTRAL REGION

Graybar has been on quite a branch expansion run in the past two years, and some of that activity was in this region. If your company has opened a new branch and would like it publicized in Electrical Wholesaling's print edition or on www.ewweb.com, please send the information (and a high-resolution photo if possible to Jim Lucy, EW's chief editor, at [email protected] .

Company Town/City State Year Graybar Electric Co. Champaign IL 2013 Graybar Electric Co. Rockford IL 2013 Graybar Electric Co. Kalamazoo MI 2013

EAST NORTH CENTRAL REGION
ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTOR SALES DATA

With over $8.6 billion in forecasted ales for next year, Illinois accounts for approximately 40% of this region's $21.5 billion in estimated 2014 sales, but the other states are big players, too.

EMPLOYMENT IN KEY CUSTOMER GROUPS

IN THE EAST NORTH CENTRAL REGION

You can use the employment data below to calculate sales potential for key customer groups by region, state and Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) by using this data and Electrical Wholesaling's 2014 Sales Multipliers. To get these multipliers and to learn how to use them, click here to get to Electrical Wholesaling 2014 Market Planning Guide. Just scroll down and search for "multipliers."