Important Update to EW Top 200 Ranking

Electrical Wholesaling must admit to several “goobers” in the print version of its 2017 Top 200 in the June issue.

We did not include several companies that should definitely be on the list — Kendall Electric Supply (#16); Kirby Risk Electrical Supply (#22); 3E Electrical Equipment & Engineering Co (#36);  Horizon Solutions (#64); and Tacoma Electric Supply (#150). These five proudly independent family owned companies, all regular respondents to the Top 200 over the years, are heavy hitters — combined they have an estimated $1.4 billion in sales.  Adding them into the mix on this year’s listing means Top 200 distributors account for an estimated $64.67 billion of all sales through electrical distributors. That’s nearly two-thirds of EW’s estimated 2016 sales of $99.78 billion

They are included in the digital version of the 2017 Top 200 at ewweb.com and will be in an updated print version of the Top 200 in Electrical Wholesaling’s August issue. We also have an updated listing  of the 50 largest distributors in the Top 200 ranking on page 2. Four of these five companies are in Electrical Wholesaling’s Top 50.

We had some snafus in our survey process this year and these companies either did not receive Top 200 surveys or information from their responses was not logged into our database. Better cross-checks of this data and our survey process will be in place for next year’s listing. We regret the error.