Graybar
![Chicago, Illinois building which housed the shops and offices of Gray & Barton in the early 1870s](/Images/godic/202501/16/Grey_and_Barton,_Chicago1650.jpg")
![Graybar Electric internal call system preserved at Edison and Ford Winter Estates](/Images/godic/202501/16/Graybar_Electric_internal_call_system1650.png")
![Graybar president Albert L. Salt (left) presents $3 million check to Western Electric president Edgar S. Bloom, as Graybar employees’ down payment toward the purchase of their company in 1929.](/Images/godic/202501/16/Salt-and-Bloom1650.jpg")
![Graybar's corporate headquarters were located at the Graybar Building in New York City until 1982.](/Images/godic/202501/16/Graybar_building_nyc_11650.jpg")
Graybar is an American employee-owned corporation, based in Clayton, Missouri. It conducts a wholesale distribution business for electrical, communications and data networking products, and is a provider of related supply-chain management and logistics services. It is included on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations.