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2022.01.18 Sonepar Acquires Electro Meers in Belgium

Sonepar Acquires Electro Meers in Belgium

18.01.2022

With this new branch in Heusden-Zolder, Cebeo will expand its presence in the province of Limburg to six branches. 

Tuesday, January 18, Cebeo, the leading Belgian distributor of electrical equipment, is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement to take over the activities of Electro Meers, based in Heusden-Zolder, as of April 1, 2022. 

The activities of Electro Meers account for an annual turnover of approximately €5 million. The four associates of Electro Meers will be joining Cebeo. With this new branch in Heusden-Zolder, Cebeo will expand its presence in the province of Limburg to six branches – in addition to Genk, Ham, Hasselt, Sint-Truiden and Tongeren. 


About Electro Meers 

Electro Meers is a distributor of electro-technical material based in Heusden-Zolder. Founded 33 years ago by Marc Meers, it is specialised in electrotechnical material, lighting and services for residential, industrial and private applications. With their team of four professionals, the company has a strong local anchoring and in recent years has achieved impressive organic growth. 


About Cebeo 

Cebeo, founded in 1922 and a member of the Sonepar Group, is the Belgian leader in the distribution of electrical equipment, solutions and related services for professionals. With a turnover of 608 million euros, and with its 1100 employees and 55 branches, Cebeo continuously invests in order to offer its customers the best services in the fields of logistics, technical support and digitalisation. 


About Sonepar 

Sonepar is an independent family-owned company with global market leadership in B-to-B distribution of electrical products, solutions and related services. Through a dense network of 100 brands spanning 40 countries, the Group has an ambitious transformation agenda to become the first global B-to-B electrical distributor to provide a fully digitalized and synchronized omnichannel experience to all customers. Drawing on the skill and passion of its 45,000 associates, Sonepar had sales of €23 billion in 2020. 

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