- See also Essex County Airport (CDW is the IATA designation).
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| Type | Private company |
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| Founded | 1984 |
| Headquarters | Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States |
| Key people | John Edwardson, Chairman, Pres. & CEO, Michael Krasny, Founder, Former President and CEO |
| Industry | Business to Business Technology Infrastructure and Resale Services |
| Products | Desktops, servers, laptops, peripherals, software, telephony products, power, storage |
| Revenue | ▲$8 billion USD (2006) |
| Employees | 5,250 |
| Website | www.cdw.com www.cdwg.com |
CDW Corporation, headquartered in Vernon Hills, Illinois, is a leading 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 currently ranks number 343 on the Fortune 500 list. They have been named on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work numerous times but did not make the list in 2008. In 2005 CDW employees donated the money for their holiday party (more than $1 million) to hurricane relief.
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 merger with Chicago based Madison Dearborn Partners was officially completed.
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