Anixter International announced plans early Monday to be acquired by Wesco International for $4.5 billion, creating an electrical and data communications distribution company with $17 billion in ...

PITTSBURGH and GLENVIEW, Ill.—On Jan. 6, after a month-long bidding war with an affiliate of private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, which first proposed purchasing Anixter for $3.8 billion in ...

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Anixter International Inc. (NYSE: AXE) and Wesco International, Inc. (NYSE: WCC) announced Monday that their boards have approved a definitive merger agreement under which Wesco will acquire Anixter ...

In a bid to bolster its presence further in the electronics industry, WESCO International, Inc. WCC is making concerted efforts to double the size of its business. This is evident from its latest move ...

GLENVIEW, Ill.—Today, Anixter International announced that it will acquire Tri-Ed for $420 million, so now Tri-Ed, which had aspirations to become a "billion dollar distribution business," will be ...

Anixter is a value-added industrial distributor of power utility, communications infrastructure, wire, and security products. It is the nation's third-largest electrical distributor. Most of its ...

Over the past three years, Anixter has completed three transactions that have bolstered its market presence, growth potential, and operating flexibility. After acquiring Tri-Ed in 2014, selling its ...

Anixter has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire security products distributor Tri-Ed from Audax Group for $420 million. The deal is expected to close near the end of the third ...

William R. Anixter was an executive in the wire and cable products distribution field who in 1957 co-founded a forerunner to Glenview-based distribution giant Anixter International. “He had no ...

John Engel Chairman, president and CEO, Wesco International Inc. Held top post for: 8 years Wesco, an electronics and supply chain company, is headed by Engel, who took over the company as CEO and ...