Wesgarde History

Wesley Theodore Sorenson

Wesgarde was founded by Wesley Theodore Sorenson in 1976 as a group of small individual warehouses selling a handful of switch products. In 1979, Wesgarde took a few regional warehouses and combined them under one name, Wesgarde was named after Wesley and his wife Hildegarde. During the mid 80's Wesgarde established an aggressive plan to add additional locations as well as adding dozens of new manufacturing partners to the line card. In 1995, Robert C. Sorenson Jr and Wesley T. Sorenson II joined the company and are currently active in managing the business.

Wesgarde is proud to celebrate over 49 years in business.  Today, Wesgarde has 5 locations in the US, over 110 employees, and over 100 franchised manufacturers represented on its line card.  Wesgarde continues to build an unparalleled reputation for supply chain management and engineering support and has solidified its role as the distributor of choice for electro-mechanical and interconnect products and services.