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SEGMENTS AND RELATED INFORMATION

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

SEGMENTS AND RELATED INFORMATION

17. SEGMENTS AND RELATED INFORMATION

WESCO distributes products and provides services through its four operating segments, which have been aggregated as one reportable segment. WESCO has approximately 220,000 unique product stock keeping units and markets more than 1,000,000 products for customers. There were no material amounts of sales or transfers among geographic areas and no material amounts of export sales.

WESCO attributes revenues from external customers to individual countries on the basis of the point of sale. The following table sets forth information about WESCO by geographic area:

	Net Sales Year Ended December 31,																					Long-Lived Assets December 31,
	2018							2017							2016							2018				2017				2016
(In thousands)
United States	$	6,089,130			75	%		$	5,775,988			75	%		$	5,635,803			77	%		$	106,078			$	95,851			$	123,465
Other International(1)	2,087,471				25	%		1,903,033				25	%		1,700,214				23	%		54,800				60,594				65,182
Total	$	8,176,601						$	7,679,021						$	7,336,017						$	160,878			$	156,445			$	188,647

⁽¹⁾  Other primarily includes Canada.

The following table sets forth information about WESCO’s sales by product category:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2018		2017		2016
(percentages based on total sales)
General Supplies	40%		40%		40%
Wire, Cable and Conduit	14%		15%		14%
Communications and Security	16%		15%		15%
Electrical Distribution and Controls	11%		10%		11%
Lighting and Sustainability	11%		12%		12%
Automation, Controls and Motors	8%		8%		8%

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The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510

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