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Anixter & WESCO Deal Will Change Electrical Distribution Landscape

Three channels that will feel the biggest impact from WESCO’s June 22 acquisition of Anixter.

June 25, 2020

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I’ve been following closely the news of the WESCO and Anixter combination, as I was a leader on the HD Supply Power Solutions team when it was sold to Anixter. As one of the “integration leaders,” part of my job was to bring the $2 billion-dollar electrical distributor into the Anixter organization. That was one of the bigger deals in recent memory in the electrical distribution channel, but it was nothing compared to the combination that occurred on June 22. This new combination of MDM’s No. 2 and No. 3 largest electrical distributors makes WESCO the largest Electrical Distributor in North…

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