Telcobuy.com (commonly known as Telcobuy) is a technology and supply chain management company founded by

David Steward David L. Steward (born July 2, 1951) is an American billionaire businessman. He is chairman and founder of World Wide Technology, one of the largest African-American-owned businesses in America. According to ''Forbes'', in 2019 Steward was one ...

and

Jim Kavanaugh James P. "Jim" Kavanaugh (born 1963) is an American businessman. He is known as the CEO and co-founder of World Wide Technology. Early life Kavanaugh received his Bachelor of Science in business administration from Saint Louis University in 198 ...

in 1999. The company provides enterprise networking services and data center security. It is also a reseller of information technology hardware. Headquartered in

St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, whic ...

, the company operates more than 2 million square feet of warehousing, distribution, and integration space throughout the United States. It is a privately held

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(MBE).

History

In 1999,

World Wide Technology World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) is a privately-held technology services provider based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company has an annual revenue of $14.5 billion (the 27th largest private company in the US and the biggest black-owned company in ...

spun off its telecommunications division to form Telcobuy.com. During its first year of business, the company sold 94 percent of its equipment inventory to

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Inc., Bell Atlantic Corp. and

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Corp.

Operations

Telcobuy has included

supplier diversity Supplier diversity refers to the use of minority-owned businesses as suppliers, and a supplier diversity program is a proactive business program which encourages such use within an organisation's supply chain. Minority-owned includes black and min ...

in its supply chain — spending more than $57 million with minorities, women, and Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses (SDVOB) since 2001. In October 2009, the company partnered with IBM for

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as a Cisco Certified Gold Partner. The company ships in-stock Cisco equipment directly from its inventory, while non-stocked items are processed and drop-shipped from Cisco.

References

External links

Official website
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