High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Anixter International (NYSE: AXE) is a Fortune 500 (#404, Fortune 2009) company based in Glenview, Illinois, USA and founded in 1957. Anixter is a leading global supplier of communications and security products, electrical and electronic wire and cable, fasteners and other small components. Anixter has physical presence in 52 countries and has more than 5,000,000 square feet (460,000 m2) of warehouse space. The Anixter Aerospace Hardware division focuses on the distribution of military and aerospace hardware.