SEC Company Response from WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC (WCC) (CIK 0000929008) (WCC) — Dec 3, 2004
WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC (WCC) (CIK 0000929008)
Date: Dec. 3, 2004 · CIK: 0000929008 · Accession: 0000950152-04-008733
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ACCELLERATION REQUEST
[WESCO letterhead]
December 3, 2004
VIA FACSIMILE: (202) 942-9585
CONFIRMATION COPY VIA FEDERAL EXPRESS
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
450 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attention:
Mary Beth Breslin
Division of Corporation Finance
Re:
WESCO International, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-119909)
Request for Acceleration of Effectiveness
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities
Act”), WESCO International, Inc. and WESCO Distribution, Inc. (collectively, the “Registrants”)
hereby respectfully request that the effective date of the above-referenced Registration Statement
be accelerated so that the same will become effective under the Securities Act at 5:00 p.m.,
Eastern Standard Time, on Monday, December 6, 2004, or as soon as practicable thereafter.
Additionally, the Registrants hereby acknowledge the following:
(i)
Should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority,
declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any
action with respect to the filing;
(ii)
The action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated
authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its
full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
December 3, 2004
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(iii)
The company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness
as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the
federal securities laws of the United States.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Stephen A. Van Oss
Stephen A. Van Oss
on behalf of the Registrants
cc: Michael C. McLean, Esq.