Graybar
Headquarters at the Graybar Building in Clayton, Missouri | |
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Distribution |
| Founded | 1869 |
| Founder | |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 345 (2023) |
Key people | Kathleen Mazzarella (Chairman, President and CEO) |
| Products | |
| Revenue | US$11 billion (2023) |
| US$637.3 million (2023) | |
| US$463.4 million (2023) | |
| Total assets | US$4 billion (2023) |
| Total equity | US$1.9 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | 9,500 (2023) |
| Website | graybar.com |
| Footnotes / references | |
Graybar Electric Company, Inc. is an American wholesale electrical, communications and data networking products distribution business, which also supplies related supply-chain management and logistics services. The company is based in Clayton, Missouri and is an employee-owned corporation.
Graybar was incorporated on December 11, 1925, as the successor company of the general electric supply business of the Western Electric Company, which was founded in 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Elisha Gray and Enos M. Barton. The separation of product lines was intended to provide a separate identity from the telephone supply function of Western Electric to the Bell System, given its importance as the largest merchandiser of electrical apparatus and related equipment in the world in the 1920s.