Electrical Wholesaling Magazine

A few years ago, I broke a caster wheel on my parents' coffee table. Simple fix. I just needed a replacement with the right bolt spacing. So, I did what any normal person does now - went online to buy it. I checked distributor website after distributor website with no luck. Turns out, only one website would let me filter by bolt spacing: Grainger. Every other site was a dead-end. To find what I needed anywhere else, I would've had to call a rep.

Amazon announced billions of dollars in new data centers for Mississippi, increasing its investment in the state to $25 billion. Here’s Amazon announcement on its construction plans: “Two years ago, Amazon broke ground on its first data center campus in Madison County—the largest capital investment in Mississippi's history at the time. That milestone was followed by a $3 billion planned investment in Warren County.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), La Cámara Nacional de Manufacturas Eléctricas (CANAME), and Electro-Federation Canada (EFC) – the trade associations representing North America’s electrical manufacturers in the U.S., Mexico and Canada respectively – came together on April 8 to call upon United States Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Jamieson Greer, Mexico Secretary of the Economy Marcelo Ebrard and Canada Minister Responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade Dominic...

Distributor Wire & Cable (DWC), a Denver-based master distributor of specialty wire and cable, opened a new 169,000-sq-ft cable distribution center (CDC) in the Houston, TX, metro area, expanding capacity to support the region's fast-growing energy and infrastructure markets. For electrical distributors serving Gulf Coast projects, specialty cable has become one of the hardest materials to source on schedule.

In partnership with the IEC Foundation and NECA/ELECTRI, Wesco continues to invest in training electrical contractors. This year marks the third consecutive year Wesco International has invested in the International Electrical Contractors (IEC) Foundation Scholarship Program and the NECA/ELECTRI Project Management (PM) Apprenticeship Program through Wesco Cares.

Eaton plans to invest $30 million-plus in a factory near Omaha, NE, in Bellevue, NE, to increase production of its medium-voltage switchgear for the data center, utility and industrial power generation and distribution systems. The new facility will be designed and optimized to support high volume of switchgear structures at the quality and speed that AI data centers customers require.

Quiz Yourself on Which Counties are Attracting the Most New Residents

Electrical Wholesaling is once again partnering with Vertical Research Partners (VRP) to our quarterly Electrical Distributor Survey. The 1Q 2026 survey EW and VRP developed will help us provide a real-time pulse on market trends including pricing, lead times and end-market activity. Just click on this link to take the survey It will take you less than two minutes to complete, and your responses will be anonymous and strictly confidential.

Quiz Yourself on Which Counties are Attracting the Most New Residents Looking for a quick-and-easy way to eyeball which local market areas are growing the fastest? Follow the moving trucks, or take this month's Electrical Attic quiz on the nation's fastest-growing counties.

Canals, Miami, FL, a developer of AI tools for distributors that has signed on an impressive roster of large electrical distributors, has launched several new AI offerings. The expanded capabilities empower distributor teams across sales, customer service, accounting, purchasing and receiving to save time and get customers what they need sooner, leading to greater customer loyalty and sales at any scale.