Trends · data through September 2026

Business & Industrial Supplies in California

Iceflower tracks 296 stores from 39 business & industrial supplies in California. CAL-STEAM grew fastest over the last year, ahead of White Cap and International Paper.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
39
Tracked stores
296
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked business & industrial supplies

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. CAL-STEAM and White Cap sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C CAL-STEAM ▲2 +19.7%
2 W White Cap - +8.8%
3 I International Paper - +4.8%
4 F Ferguson Plumbing Supply logo Ferguson Plumbing Supply - +4.2%
5 A Airgas Store logo Airgas Store ▲1 +3.1%
6 B Barnes Welding Supply ▲1 +1.6%
7 P Platt Electric Supply logo Platt Electric Supply - -6.7%
8 S Sunbelt Rentals logo Sunbelt Rentals - -9.0%
9 R Reece Plumbing logo Reece Plumbing - -10.7%
10 B Builders FirstSource logo Builders FirstSource ▲1 -10.8%
11 I Industrial Metal Supply Co. - -13.8%
12 B Baker Distributing Company logo Baker Distributing Company ▼1 -14.2%
13 E Ewing Irrigation & Landscape Supply ▼1 -15.2%
14 E Ewing Outdoor Supply logo Ewing Outdoor Supply - -25.3%
15 H Horizon Distributors ▼2 -29.4%
  • Ferguson Plumbing Supply
  • Johnstone Supply
  • PACE Supply
  • White Cap
  • Builders FirstSource
  • Ewing Irrigation & Landscape Supply
  • Platt Electric Supply
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

296 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Ferguson Plumbing Supply (56)
  • Johnstone Supply (21)
  • PACE Supply (1)
  • White Cap (26)
  • Builders FirstSource (8)
  • Ewing Irrigation & Landscape Supply (25)
  • Platt Electric Supply (20)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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