Company: WCC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000929008-25-000012
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Company: WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 60
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 and indirect manufacturing supply chain optimization programs, lighting and renewables advisory services, and digital and automation solutions to improve safety and productivity.

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Table of Contents   WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

Communications & Security Solutions

The CSS segment, with approximately 4,800 employees serving customers in over 50 countries, is a global leader in data center, network infrastructure and security solutions. CSS sells directly to end-users or through an extensive network of channel partners, including data communications contractors, security and network integrators, professional audio/visual integrators, and systems integrators. CSS also provides a wide range of professional A/V, safety, facilities, and energy management solutions. The full CSS product portfolio is frequently coupled with services designed to enhance efficiency and productivity across all customer segments globally. These services include data center services, advisory, installation enhancement, project deployment, supply chain solutions, and management platforms.

Utility & Broadband Solutions

The UBS segment is a leader in North America, with approximately 2,500 employees serving customers primarily in the U.S. and Canada, and provides products and services to investor-owned utilities, public power companies, including municipalities, as well as global service providers, wireless providers, broadband operators and the contractors that service these customers. The products sold include wire and cable, transformers, transmission and distribution hardware, switches, protective devices, connectors, lighting, conduit, fiber and copper cable, connectivity products, pole line hardware, racks, cabinets, safety and MRO products, and point-to-point wireless devices. UBS also offers a complete set of service solutions to improve customer supply chain efficiencies.

Business Highlights

Against a backdrop of increased uncertainty and volatility, our financial results for the first three months of 2025 compared to the first three months of 2024 reflect relatively flat reported sales results, with organic sales up 5.6%. We had very strong growth in the CSS data center solutions business driven by large project activity with customers, but saw continued weakness in the utility business, as expected, due to ongoing customer destocking. Financial results were impacted by higher facilities and transportation costs, partially offset by lower payroll and payroll-related expenses, all of which are inclusive of the impact of the April 1, 2024 divestiture of our Wesco Integrated Supply (“WIS”) business.

On January 2, 2025, we acquired Industrial Software Solutions (ISS), an AVEVA Select distributor that specializes in industrial automation software and solutions primarily in Western Canada, Alaska and the Pacific