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Electrical Wholesaling’s 2025 Top 100 Ranking
06/09/2025
Electrical Wholesaling has been ranking the electrical wholesaling’s largest distributors for more than 40 years, but EW’s editors can’t remember a time when distributors’ revenue forecasts, year-over-year (YOY) revenue growth and expectations for health of the overall U.S. economy showed such a wide disparity.
For example, of the 37 distributors that provided a revenue forecast, an impressive 40.5% of respondents expect growth of 10% or better – but the same percentage of distributors see growth in a rather pedestrian range of +1% to +5%. Roughly 14% of distributor respondents are gunning for 2025 revenue growth in the +6% to +9% range, which is fairly close to the electrical wholesaling industry’s historical growth range of +4% to +8%. And when asked about the chances of a U.S. recession in the next 12 months, 69% of the 42 Top 100 distributor execs who answered the question said recession chances are 50/50, and another 11.9% said chances were very likely.
Electrical Wholesaling’s 2025 Top 100 Ranking
06/09/2025
Electrical Wholesaling has been ranking the electrical wholesaling’s largest distributors for more than 40 years, but EW’s editors can’t remember a time when distributors’ revenue forecasts, year-over-year (YOY) revenue growth and expectations for health of the overall U.S. economy showed such a wide disparity.
For example, of the 37 distributors that provided a revenue forecast, an impressive 40.5% of respondents expect growth of 10% or better – but the same percentage of distributors see growth in a rather pedestrian range of +1% to +5%. Roughly 14% of distributor respondents are gunning for 2025 revenue growth in the +6% to +9% range, which is fairly close to the electrical wholesaling industry’s historical growth range of +4% to +8%. And when asked about the chances of a U.S. recession in the next 12 months, 69% of the 42 Top 100 distributor execs who answered the question said recession chances are 50/50, and another 11.9% said chances were very likely.