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A Study of Sonepar’s North American Acquisition Journey

Mike Hockett analyzes Sonepar's 26-year North American expansion that has led to over $15 billion in 2023 sales, with most of that in the U.S.

May 10, 2024

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Paris, France-based Sonepar has frequented MDM’s headlines over the past decade, but at a heightened pace in these past several years. As the world’s largest electrical supplies distributor — and second-largest in North America by revenue — news out of Sonepar is always of high interest to our audience. The company’s website states that, over the past 20 years, acquisitions represent 60% of Sonepar’s total growth and that the group has made over 200 acquisitions in that time which have accounted for nearly $11 billion in added sales. It’s the company’s recent North American acquisition moves…

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