Global Giants Dominate Listing of the Largest Electrical Manufacturers in the World

As part of Electrical Wholesaling’s coverage in this month’s issue of the electrical manufacturers that have been making the most news over the past few years, the magazine’s editors compiled the chart above to give readers a sense of the size of this industry’s largest electrical suppliers.

Even if all of their electrical sales aren’t in the mainstream electrical wholesaling industry, the sheer size of the largest global manufacturers like Siemens (approximately $102.5 billion in total sales) or ABB (approximately $41.5 billion) is striking, particularly when you compare them to the largest U.S.-based electrical manufacturers. Relatively few of the several hundred U.S. electrical manufacturers that sell their products through electrical distributors have annual sales topping one billion dollars.

According to Electrical Wholesaling’s research, only 14 U.S.-based electrical manufacturers have sales of over $1 billion. Interestingly, according to the magazine’s research there’s at least 10 electrical distributors that do $1 billion in sales. Panduit appears to be the only privately held electrical manufacturer based in the United States with sales topping a billion dollars. Leviton Manufacturing Co., is second largest with an estimated $742 million in sales according to the Hoovers database.

In addition to making their picks for the 10 electrical manufacturers to watch in the future, in the September cover story, Electrical Wholesaling’s editors offer readers some ideas on how to deal with five mega-trends that will have the most impact on the electrical market down the road: the lighting transformation to LEDs; the energy revolution; the evolving power grid; our more-connected world, and the market opportunities with the new logistics of moving products through more-modern ports, intermodal facilities and rail lines.