Company: WCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000929008-25-000005
Chunk: 29

Company: WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 29
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 operating costs could increase, and our business operations and financial results could be negatively affected.

Our strategic and operational initiatives, including our business transformation enabled by digital initiatives, are subject to various risks and uncertainties, and we may be unable to implement the initiatives successfully.

We are engaged in a number of strategic and operational initiatives, including our digital transformation initiatives, designed to optimize costs and improve operational efficiency. Our ability to successfully execute these initiatives is subject to various risks and uncertainties and there can be no assurance regarding the timing of or extent to which we will realize the anticipated benefits, if at all. The design, development, and implementation of new systems and applications carries inherent risks, including potential technical failures, integration challenges, and business disruptions. These risks could result in operational inefficiencies, system downtime, or other unforeseen complications that may adversely affect our business operations and customer relationships. Additionally, our initiatives may require significant capital investments and resource allocation, and any delays, cost overruns, or implementation difficulties could negatively impact our expected return on investment and overall business performance.

We may not be able to fully realize the anticipated benefits and cost savings of mergers and acquisitions.

In 2020, we completed our merger with Anixter; in 2022, we completed the acquisition of Rahi Systems; and in 2024, we completed several acquisitions, including those of entroCIM, Independent Electric Supply, and Ascent. We consider and may pursue other acquisitions on an on-going basis. The success of these and future acquisitions, including anticipated benefits and cost savings, depends on the successful combination and integration of the companies’ businesses. It is possible that the integration process of an acquired business could result in the loss of key employees, higher than expected costs, diversion of management attention, the disruption of either company’s ongoing legacy businesses or inconsistencies in standards, controls, procedures and policies that adversely affect the Company’s ability to maintain relationships with customers, suppliers and employees or to achieve the anticipated benefits and cost savings of the transaction.

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We have incurred, and expect to continue to incur, a number of non-recurring costs associated with recent acquisitions and related integration activities. This includes transaction fees and expenses related to formulating and implementing integration plans, including facilities, systems consolidation and employment-related costs. We continue to assess the magnitude of these costs, and additional unanticipated costs may be incurred in the integration of the acquired companies’ businesses. Although we anticipate that the elimination of duplicative costs, as well as the realization of other efficiencies related to the integration of the businesses