By 2000, Micro Warehouse was the leading direct marketer and catalogue retailer of personal computer products, with worldwide sales of $2.6 billion.
The company was originally co founded by Peter Godfrey, Felix Dennis and Bob Bartner in 1987, and was based in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
After growing to become the fifth largest catalogue company in the world and a dominant re seller for Apple, Microsoft, and many other hardware manufacturers and software publishers, a class action lawsuit distracted senior management for several years.
Jerry York, CFO who led turnarounds at IBM and Chrysler, was the chairman, president, and CEO.
The company sold its North American operations to CDW Corporation just two and a half years later, on September 8, 2003, for $22 million.