Trends · data through September 2026

Business & Industrial Supplies in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 296 stores from 36 business & industrial supplies in North Carolina. Capital Electric grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ewing Irrigation & Landscape Supply and Baker Distributing Company.

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
36
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. Capital Electric and Ewing Irrigation & Landscape Supply sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Capital Electric logo Capital Electric ▲1 +2.6%
2 E Ewing Irrigation & Landscape Supply ▲2 -0.0%
3 B Baker Distributing Company logo Baker Distributing Company ▲1 -1.3%
4 T Trane Supply ▲1 -2.4%
5 J Johnstone Supply logo Johnstone Supply - -2.6%
6 C City Electric Supply logo City Electric Supply ▲1 -3.7%
7 B Builders FirstSource logo Builders FirstSource - -6.3%
8 C Crystal Clean - -12.0%
9 A Airgas Store logo Airgas Store ▲1 -19.4%
10 H HD Supply Waterworks ▲1 -25.5%
11 S Sunbelt Rentals logo Sunbelt Rentals - -26.4%
12 C Carolina Cat - -40.6%
13 F Fastenal Fulfillment Center - -43.9%
14 U United Refrigeration Inc logo United Refrigeration Inc ▼8 -94.8%
  • Builders FirstSource
  • Ferguson Plumbing Supply
  • Johnstone Supply
  • R.E. Michel Company
  • QXO
  • Sunbelt Rentals
  • City Electric Supply
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Builders FirstSource (21)
  • Ferguson Plumbing Supply (26)
  • Johnstone Supply (13)
  • R.E. Michel Company (14)
  • QXO (10)
  • Sunbelt Rentals (29)
  • City Electric Supply (41)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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