of Wesco International and in March 2021 announced the acquisition of Freshmile Services, an independent charging station operator that offers monitoring services and software. The group also gained a 25% minority stake in Trace Software International, a software company specializing in electrical design. These two moves were intended to build the group's electromobility capacity. In November, 2021, Rexel closed on the acquisition of Mayer, a major distributor of electrical products and services operating in the Eastern part of the United States. This followed their announcement in February to resume bolt-on acquisitions to strengthen positioning in the United States. The Mayer business added 68 points of sale for Rexel generating $1.2B in annual sales as of August, 2021. Activities Rexel supplies equipment for the installation and use of electricity, mainly in residential, tertiary and industrial buildings. The group is also positioned on industrial infrastructure projects (mines, hydroelectric power stations, natural gas). The products marketed by Rexel relate in particular to medium voltage electrical circuits in buildings: secure meters (general circuit breaker), current carriers (wires and cables), attachments and protections (baseboards, cable trays), as well as equipment that protects circuits (auxiliary circuit breakers, kill switches) and that connects and controls devices (sockets, contactors, switches). In addition, the group offers equipment for low voltage circuits (internet, stereos, television, telephone) and technical building management (home automation and building automation) with its own multi-protocol and multi-brand smart home solution. The company also markets electrical appliances: lighting equipment, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, motors, telephones and audiovisual equipment and so on. In recent years, Rexel has developed low consumption solutions (lighting, high-efficiency motors) and products that use renewable energies: solar, wind, geothermal and aerothermal (heat pumps, solar water heaters, climate engineering solutions). Services The services marketed by the Rexel Group can be divided into 7 categories: Infrastructure and network services in which there is an infrastructure and network educational offer, as well as an infrastructure and network maintenance after-sales service Industrial process services, integrating an industrial process educational offer, an industrial process maintenance after-sales service and industrial process technical assistance Heating, electricity, air conditioning and ventilation services Lighting services Building outfitting and building control services including an educational outfitting and building control offer, application and building control training, and application and building control commissioning. Energy distribution and management services comprising an educational energy distribution and management offer, technical assistance, energy distribution and management training, and distribution training.