After more than 35 years in the No. 1 spot, Graybar Electric Co., Clayton, Mo., fell to the No. 2 spot as WESCO Distribution, Pittsburgh, inched ahead with $4.4 billion in 2005 sales, an 18.2 percent upswing. WESCO attributed the increase to market-share growth and acquisitions. Although Graybar declined to disclose revenue in its Top 200 survey, employee-owned Graybar’s 2005 annual report lists sales of $4.3 billion, a 5.5 percent increase over the $4.1 billion in 2004 sales Graybar reported in last year’s Top 200 survey.

In a near repeat performance of 2004, the Top 200 electrical distributors finished 2005 with year-to-year sales up an average of 15.1 percent — 0.2 percentage points higher than 2004’s 14.9 percent gain. Once again, copper and steel commodity-price increases topped the list of reasons electrical distributors’ annual revenue jumped by double digits.

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