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CDW 
Type Private company Industry Business to Business Technology Infrastructure and Resale Services Founded 1984 Headquarters Vernon Hills, Illinois,
United StatesNumber of locations 1 retail store Key people John Edwardson, Chairman/CEO
Michael Krasny, FounderProducts Desktops, servers, laptops, peripherals, software, telephony products, power, storage Revenue 
$8.8 billion USD (2010)Owner(s) Madison Dearborn Partners Employees 6,150 Website www.cdw.com CDW Corporation, headquartered in Vernon Hills, Illinois, is a reseller of computer hardware, software and supplies. Along with its warehouse-attached showroom in Illinois, CDW takes orders from its catalog via mail order, telephone and the Internet.
The company has a secondary division known as CDW-G, devoted solely to United States governmental purchasers, such as from schools, universities, cities, and the state and federal government.
CDW was originally incorporated as "MPK Computing" by its founding member Michael Krasny, who currently ranks on Fortune magazine's list of the wealthiest Americans. It later became Computer Discount Warehouse and then simply CDW.
In early 2006, CDW opened a 513,000-square-foot (47,700 m2) distribution center in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The Vernon Hills, Illinois distribution center is roughly 450,000 square feet (42,000 m2).
CDW has recently announced the acquisition of Berbee, a top tier reseller of IBM, Cisco, and Microsoft products and services. This is CDW's second major acquisition after purchasing Micro Warehouse in September 2003 and opening two remote offices in New Jersey (Voorhees and Eatontown) which employ over 500 people.
CDW has recently agreed to be acquired by a private equity firm for a value of over 7 billion dollars [1]
On Friday, October 12, 2007, CDW's acquisition by Chicago-based Madison Dearborn Partners was officially completed.
Non-Profit
CDW Non-Profit sector was founded in 2007. CDW Non-Profit assists in providing affordable technology tools and services to associations, foundations, governmental departments, religious and social service organizations.[2] The Brookings Institution, Salvation Army, PCAOB, Aids Healthcare Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Heart Association are among some of their clients.[3]
References
- ^ http://newsroom.cdw.com/news-releases/news-release-05-29-07.html
- ^ http://www.cdw.com/content/segments/nonprofit.aspx
- ^ http://newsroom.cdw.com/news-releases/news-release-04-21-09.html
External links
Categories:- Retail companies established in 1984
- Companies based in Vernon Hills, Illinois
- Madison Dearborn Partners companies
- United States retail company stubs
- Illinois stubs
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