Electrical and industrial provides distributor Graybar shared its 2025 1Q monetary efficiency on April 24, which confirmed that the corporate achieved its highest first-quarter gross sales ever and third third-highest gross sales ever in any quarter.
The St. Louis-based firm posted 1Q gross sales of $2.95 billion, up 7.9% year-over-year. This was an acceleration in comparison with 4Q24’s achieve of 5.5%. In the meantime, Graybar’s 1Q web revenue of $100.9 million declined 4.1% year-over-year.
The distributor mentioned the revenue lower was partially pushed by investments in Graybar’s Join — a multi-year enterprise transformation mission.
“One key accomplishment was the current launch of our new ERP system, which can be absolutely deployed later this yr,” Graybar Chairman, President and CEO Kathleen Mazzarella mentioned within the firm’s monetary launch. “This marks a serious milestone in our ongoing enterprise transformation, designed to maintain our firm wholesome and rising for the longer term.”
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Graybar’s 1Q25 achievements embody:
- Awarded the Graybar Building Trades Scholarship for the sixth consecutive yr, with an elevated award quantity
- Acknowledged as a High Workplaces USA winner by Energage and USA At the moment for the fifth consecutive yr
- Listed on Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Corporations for the twenty third yr
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“Due to Graybar’s distinctive worker possession construction, we are able to make investments for the long-term, at the same time as we navigate ongoing financial uncertainty,” Mazzarella added. “We consider our strategic investments in Graybar Join will ship large worth for our firm and our prospects. As well as, we proceed to pursue acquisitions and different alternatives to strengthen our capabilities and drive sustained progress.”
Graybar is likely one of the solely non-publicly traded distributors MDM follows that publishes quarterly gross sales and revenue updates as firm information.
Graybar was No. 4 on MDM’s High Distributors Listing for Electrical/Knowledge/Safety and No. 20 for Industrial Provides.

