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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. EW's editors estimate that the 12 Top 200 companies acquired in 2006 had a combined total of more than $5 billion in annual sales in 2005. That was approximately 7 percent of all industry sales for that year.

Company Electrical Sales Acquirer
2007 ACQUISITIONS
Minnesota Electric Supply Co., Willmar, Minn. NA Border States, Fargo, N.D.
US Electrical Services Inc. LLC, Exton, Pa. NA Consolidated Electrical Distributors Inc., Westlake Village, Calif.
Bryant Electric Supply Co. Inc., Lowell, N.C. $49.27 million Hagemeyer North America, Charleston, S.C.
Roden Electrical Supply Co., Knoxville, Tenn. $109.5 million Kendall Electric, Battle Creek, Mich.
HD Supply Inc., Orlando, Fla. $1.67 billion Clayton Dubilier & Rice, Bain Capital Partners and Carlyle Group (private-equity firms)
Crawford Electric Supply Co., Dallas $291 million Sonepar USA, Philadelphia
Ralph Pill Electric Supply, Boston NA Sonepar USA/ Northeast Electrical Distributors/ Eagle Electric Supply
Shepherd Electric Supply, Raleigh, N.C. NA State Electric Supply Co., Huntington, W.Va.
Estimated total sales of 2007 acquisitions of Top 200 electrical distributors $2.51 billion
2008 ACQUISITIONS
Beacon Electric Supply, San Diego $49.5 billion Gexpro (IESCO), Dallas
Hagemeyer North American operations, Charleston, S.C. $525 million Sonepar USA Paris
ESSCO Wholesale Electric, Chandler, Ariz. NA Sonepar USA
Estimated total sales in 2008 acquisitions of Top 200 electrical distributors (year-to-date) $574.5 million
Estimated total sales in 2007 & 2008 acquisitions of Top 200 electrical distributors (year-to-date) $3.08 billion
Note: Where companies did not provide sales data for publication, Electrical Wholesaling's editors estimated their annual sales for placement in the listing using average sales-per-employee figures and other methods. Go to page 27 for a listing of all 2007 and 2008 (year-to-date) acquisitions.

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