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Top Ten News Stories of 2006

Published Friday, December 01, 2006

Distributor Acquisitions Hit Record Pace This year may go down as the most active ever for distributor acquisitions, both by number and in terms of the combined sales volume of the acquired companies. The editors of Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter have compiled a list of more than 30 distributors of electrical supplies that were acquired in 2006 (see table, page 25). That total is notably higher than the most active acquisition years of the late 1990s, when these publications reported on up to 20 deals per year. When the U.S economy is ...

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