FACTS & FIGURES

The Global Technology Distribution Council is comprised of a collection of the computer industry’s top wholesale distributors, some of the largest and best-run organizations in the entire world of IT. And while you may know their names if you’re involved in the business of information technology or if you’re a part of the network of skilled value-added resellers and retail stores that purchase their resalable wares from these distributors, most of them are not “household names.”

That’s because what distributors do best is provide services transparently to the end customer; they stay in the background. They support their reseller customers and vendor partners without promoting their own names, their own size, their own worth to the end customer where the most visible advertising and marketing in the IT arena takes place.

That's why it’s important for anyone involved in IT or studying the channel to understand the sheer size and girth of the distribution business as a whole. Individual distributors have revenues that range from multi-millions of dollars to multi-billions of dollars.

It is only when you examine the facts and figures that distribution as a whole has to offer that you get a collective and deep impression of the significance of these businesses in the IT market and the value that they offer in delivering a suite of cost-effective and far-reaching services on behalf of their vendors and reseller customers.

Here, the GTDC provides its own estimates of a number of key facts and figures to illustrate the power of the distribution community. The collective set of facts and figures presented here, however magnificent, merely represent a subset of distribution – A collection of North American-based wholesale distributors that are members of the GTDC.

Imagine the multiplication of these facts and figures when you add our distributor members that are based abroad and the distributors that are yet to become members of our organization. It is only then that you can begin to comprehend the awesome power and reach that distributors collectively provide to their business partners around the globe.

U.S. DISTRIBUTION FACTS & FIGURES
	100,000 resellers
	1 million inbound calls per month
	.5 million outbound calls per month
	2.5 million on-time orders shipped per month
	1.5 million Web orders placed per month
	200,000 technical support calls per month