After a couple of shaky sales years for the electrical industry’s 200 largest electrical distributors, 2003 proved to be a stabilizing year, according to Electrical Wholesaling’s annual Top 200 analysis, which appears in this month’s issue of the magazine. Those electrical distributors that reported sales volume for both 2002 and 2003 increased annual sales an average of 1.8 percent, bringing total sales for the Top 200 up to an estimated $35.2 billion for 2003.

Of course, that’s just the average. A better gauge of the electrical industry’s health might be obtained by looking at the number of electrical distributors reporting increases, decreases and flat sales. Among the electrical distributors on the Top 200 list that provided a sales number for both 2002 and 2003, 67 percent reported a sales increase, 25 percent reported a decrease, and 8 percent reported flat sales.

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