Archive for September 16th, 2009

Johnson Promoted to National Sales and Marketing Manager at Ericson Manufacturing

Ericson Manufacturing (Willoughby, Ohio): Jim Johnson has been promoted to national sales and marketing manager. He joined Ericson this past March, serving as the North Central regional sales manager. Prior to joining Ericson, Jim spent 18 years with the Lester Sales Co., an independent manufacturer’s rep, serving as the Indiana sales manager. He has a B.S. degree from Northern Illinois University and maintains his CPMR certification.

Harris Now Senior V.P. at Ideal Electric Supply

dennis-harris-from-ideal-el.jpgIdeal Electric Supply Corp. (Washington, D.C.): Dennis Harris was promoted to senior vice president. A veteran of the telecommunication infrastructure industry, Harris joined the company in 2005 as vice president of operations. He has over 24 years of business management experience and has been a driving force in the company’s process reorganization and growth in the past four years.

GE Sees Billion-Dollar Business in Solar

A 9/14 Financial Times report says GE wants to grow its solar operations from the approximately $200 million it now does in photovoltaics into what John Krenicki, a vice-chairman and chief executive of GE Energy Infrastructure says should be a “big, multibillion-dollar business.”