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CDW Completes Acquisition of Lovelytics

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Addition of leading data and AI services firm deepens CDW’s capabilities, helping organizations build modern data foundations and accelerate AI adoption

This release was originally published on CDW’s Newsroom. 

VERNON HILLS, Ill., Sept. 25, 2026 – CDW (Nasdaq: CDW), the strategic end-to-end technology partner that turns customer ambition into outcomes, today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Lovelytics, a leading data and AI services firm and a member of the Databricks Brickbuilder Partner Network. The acquisition expands CDW’s Services & Solutions portfolio and will bring the Lovelytics capabilities to a broader set of customers. 

Lovelytics helps organizations modernize, govern and use their data to improve performance and deploy AI at scale, combining deep Databricks expertise with experience across energy, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, financial services and media. It brings a team of more than 600 across the United States, Canada, Argentina and Colombia who work exclusively in data and AI. 

This strategic investment strengthens CDW’s Data & Analytics Practice, helping customers build the data foundations needed to make better decisions, improve efficiency and put AI to work. By combining Lovelytics’ expertise in strategy, data architecture and implementation with CDW’s broad technology capabilities, scale and deep relationships, customers can turn to a single partner across the full technology lifecycle. This helps them move from strategy to outcomes faster.

  

About CDW 

CDW Corporation (Nasdaq: CDW) is the leading end-to-end technology partner that cuts through complexity to turn customer ambition into outcomes. Working with organizations across the business, government, education and healthcare sectors in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, CDW enables organizations to navigate an increasingly complex technology market and turn their technology investments into lasting value. For more information about CDW, please visit CDW.com.  

About Lovelytics 

Lovelytics is a data and AI consulting firm powering the world’s most advanced brands. Now in its tenth year and named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies three times, Lovelytics helps enterprises across North America and LATAM move from AI pilots to production with deep industry expertise and proven enterprise outcomes. Learn more at www.lovelytics.com. 

CDW Forward-Looking Statements 

This release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the federal securities laws. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this release are forward-looking statements, including statements related to the expected closing of the acquisition or the timing thereof, the expected benefits of the acquisition and our future prospects as a combined company, including market opportunity and services and solutions capabilities. These statements relate to analyses and other information, which are based on forecasts of future results or events and estimates of amounts not yet determinable. We claim the protection of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for all forward-looking statements in this release. Although we believe that our plans, intentions, and other expectations reflected in or suggested by such forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that we will achieve those plans, intentions, or expectations. All forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those that we expected. Important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from our expectations, or cautionary statements, include among others, failure to satisfy any conditions to the closing of the transaction in a timely manner or at all; the occurrence of any event that could give rise to termination of the definitive agreement; the risk that anticipated benefits from the proposed transaction may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected; failure to successfully integrate Lovelytics; our ability to retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with customers, suppliers and other third parties; and other risk factors or uncertainties identified from time to time in CDW’s filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). All written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us, or persons acting on our behalf, are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements identified above and in the section entitled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 as well as other cautionary statements that are made from time to time in our other SEC filings and public communications. You should evaluate all forward-looking statements made in this release in the context of these risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements included in this release are made only as of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by law.  

CDW Contacts 

Investor Inquiries 

Steve O’Brien 
Senior Vice President, Investor Relations 
(847) 968-0238 
[email protected] 

Media Inquiries  

Tammy Olson 
Director, Corporate Communications
[email protected]

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