Company: WCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000929008-25-000005
Chunk: 27

Company: WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 27
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 financial markets, which may affect our customers or lenders, or may increase market volatility. The full extent to which new COVID variants or new pandemics may impact our business, results of operations, and financial condition depends on many evolving factors and future developments for which there remains significant uncertainty; the availability, effectiveness and public acceptance of treatments or vaccines (including boosters); the impact of the imposition of governmental actions; and the impact of pandemics on the global supply chain and the broader economy and capital markets, as well as the matters noted above. In addition, COVID variants and other pandemics may adversely affect many of our suppliers’ and customers’ businesses and operations, including the ability of our suppliers to manufacture or obtain the products we sell or to meet delivery requirements and commitments, and our customers’ demand for our products and services and the ability to pay for them, all of which could adversely affect our sales and results of operations.

We may not be able to appropriately respond to or manage the impact of these events, and any of these events could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, liquidity and stock price.

We are subject to various laws and regulations globally and any failure to comply could adversely affect our business.

We are subject to a broad range of laws and regulations in the jurisdictions where we operate globally, including, among others, those relating to data privacy and protection, cyber security, import and export requirements, anti-bribery and corruption, product compliance, supplier regulations regarding the sources of supplies or products, sustainability and environmental protection, health and safety requirements, intellectual property, foreign exchange controls and cash repatriation restrictions, labor and employment, human rights, e-commerce, advertising and marketing, anti-competition, artificial intelligence and tax. Compliance with these domestic and foreign laws, regulations and requirements may be burdensome, increasing our cost of compliance and doing business. In addition, as a supplier to federal, state, and local government agencies, we must comply with certain laws and regulations relating specifically to our governmental contracts. Although we have implemented policies and procedures designed to facilitate compliance with various laws, we cannot assure you that our employees, contractors, or agents will not violate such laws and regulations, or our policies and procedures. Any such violations 

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could result in the imposition of fines and penalties, damage to our reputation, and, in the case of laws and regulations relating to governmental contracts, the loss of those contracts.

Fluctuations in foreign currency have an effect on our results from operations. 

The results of