Interline Brands
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The Interline Brands headquarters in Jacksonville.
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| Industry | Wholesale/Distribution/Retail |
| Founded | 1978 as Wilmar Industries |
| Headquarters | Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
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Area served
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United States, Canada, United States Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico |
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Key people
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Kenneth Sweder (CEO) |
| Products | plumbing, electrical, security hardware, HVAC, janitorial & sanitary products |
| Revenue | $1.6 billion (2014) |
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Number of employees
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4,300 |
| Parent | The Home Depot (2015–present) |
| Subsidiaries | Wilmar Industries Barnett SupplyWorks U.S. Lock Maintenance USA Hardware Express Leran Gas Products Copperfield Eagle Maintenance Supply Northern Colorado Paper |
| Website | www.interlinebrands.com |
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| Industry | Wholesale/Distribution (business)/Retail |
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| Founded | 1978 Collingswood, New Jersey |
| Founder | William "Bill" Green Martin Green |
| Products | Maintenance, repair, and operations |
| Website | www |
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| Industry | Wholesale/Distribution/Retail |
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| Founded | 1958 Jacksonville, Florida |
| Products | Maintenance, repair, and operations |
| Website | www |
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| Industry | Wholesale/Distribution (business)/Retail |
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| Founded | 1974 San Diego, California |
| Products | Maintenance, repair, and operations |
| Website | www |
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| Industry | Wholesale/Distribution/Retail |
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| Founded | 1974 |
| Products | Propane hardware |
| Website | www |
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| Industry | Wholesale/Distribution/Retail |
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| Founded | 1968 |
| Products | Propane accessories |
| Website | www |
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| Industry | Wholesale/Distribution/Retail |
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| Products | Maintenance, repair, and operations |
| Website | www |
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Wholesale/Distribution (business)/Retail |
| Predecessor | Sexauer JanPak AmSan CleanSource Trayco |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Products | Janitorial, sanitary, packaging, MRO, disposable food packaging |
| Website | www |
Interline Brands, Inc., headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, is one of the largest wholesale distributors and direct marketers of maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products for non-industrial businesses in the United States. Interline Brands distributes a broad range of products such as HVAC, janitorial supplies, plumbing supplies and security supplies.
Interline Brands was established in 1978 formerly known as Wilmar Industries. Gradually Interline Brands diversified their customer base through the acquisitions of Sexauer, Trayco, Barnett, U.S. Lock, Learn Gas Products, Maintenance USA, Hardware Express and janitorial supply distributors AmSan, CleanSource and JanPak. In 2015 Interline Brands merged five of its janitorial brands into one unified brand called SupplyWorks. On July 22, 2015 The Home Depot acquired Interline Brands for $1.6 billion.
The origin of Interline Brands first began with Wilmar Supply Company in 1978. Wilmar was a hardware store in Collingswood, New Jersey founded by William (Bill) Green and his father Martin Green. To expand its business beyond retail it began selling MRO products to area apartment complexes and then expanded geographically by distributing to multi-family housing businesses. Wilmar went public in 1996 and purchased 14 regional competing businesses before acquiring the Sexauer Group, a well-known and established distributor of plumbing product to institutions, in 1999. A leveraged buyout in May, 2000 took the company private in preparation for the next stage of growth. Wilmar acquired Barnett, Inc. because the two businesses were very similar, but each targeted a different customer base. Wilmar's customers performed facility maintenance, while Barnett sold to locksmiths, retail hardware and contractors.
Wilmar Industries acquired Barnett in September 2000 and renamed the umbrella company, Interline Brands in June 2001 Their guiding principle was to "change as little as possible about the way our customers currently do business with us". Each of the businesses (including Sexauer) retained their identity from the customer's point of view, including salesmen, telephone numbers, products, etc. They realized the value of each company's brand, and preserved sales/marketing relationships built over the years. What did change was behind the scenes in accounting, distribution and administration, realizing economies of scale. In 2000, Interline had a total of 76 distribution centers, which they were able to shrink to 56 in 2004. A 319,000 sq ft (29,600 m2) national distribution center in Nashville, Tennessee was opened in 2001, reducing the inventory required at the local distribution centers and improving delivery times. In late 2004 Interline went public as :IBI but was later delisted in September 2012 to become privatized.
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