Computer retailer CDW is in talks to be taken private, reports the Wall Street Journal. The company customizes computers and resells them to business and institutional customers. CDW has a significant presence in North Las Vegas, where it set up its western distribution center in February, 2006.

Madison Dearborn Partners is considered in the lead to buy the company, the Journal reported, citing unnamed sources. The paper reports that there could be other buyers and a deal is by no means certain.

The company has boosted sales in recent months but the share price has only risen 7 percent despite a big push into the market for specialty customized computer networks.

Whether or not there is a sale, the NLV facility seems likely to stay. The company brought a lot of its workforce from Illinois and so far, Director of Operations Ray Nair, told the Business Press last year, they are happy and don't miss shovelling snow in February.

Update: Late Tuesday afternoon, the deal was concluded. Madison Dearborn Partners will buy CDW for $7.3 billion. The shares went wild, adds the New York Times.