Winsupply
The Firm
The businesses it buys are the size a single buyer competes for, which is unusual on this shelf and is the reason this row is worth reading. The purchases below run to eighteen employees, thirty-four employees and seven employees, which is a different population from the sixty-location chains most consolidators announce.
Its model is the other thing to understand before taking the call. It stands over more than six hundred and eighty locally owned wholesale companies rather than a single operating business, and the arrangement is co-ownership, so a seller or an operator can hold a substantial minority stake instead of exiting outright. Its own page pitches that against selling to an investor focused on profit or a corporation dictating from a distance.
It publishes no criteria at all: no size, no geography, no revenue floor, just an acquisition specialist and a telephone number. The trades come from the announcements rather than from the page that invites the call.
Read again in September 2026: nothing since the Texas pipe supplier, and the two purchases the list lacked are HVAC equipment houses of seven and nine employees, which is the size this row is on the shelf for. The newsroom's purchases since are buildings, a moving warehouse and two distribution centers, and it counts four companies bought in a year against eleven opened.
What It Buys
Moraine, Ohio. A co-ownership group standing over hundreds of locally owned wholesale companies, which buys small electrical and plumbing supply houses and usually keeps the selling owner running the branch.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
5 deals traced to announcements by Winsupply, 2025 to 2026, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- Rural Pipe & Supply · May 5, 2026
A family-owned waterworks and construction materials distributor founded in 1999, with two Texas locations and eighteen employees.
- Central Corp. · February 16, 2026
An Appleton, Wisconsin HVAC equipment and parts wholesaler with seven employees; HVAC, not the row's two supply trades.
- R.A. Novia & Associates · September 30, 2025
A Cheshire, Connecticut HVAC equipment provider with nine employees, the firm's third purchase of 2025; not the row's trades.
- United Lighting & Supply Co. · May 21, 2025
A wholesale electrical, lighting and appliance distributor established in 1973, with four Florida locations and 34 staff.
- Industrial Sales Co. · May 7, 2025
A landscape and utility wholesaler founded in 1973 selling drainage, PVC and irrigation supplies from Olathe and Omaha.