An article in Pennsylvania’s Times Herald says Colonial Electric Supply, King of Prussia, Pa., has acquired TelTek Sales Inc., Philadelphia, to bolster its offering of telecom products and services.
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Colonial Electric Supply acquires telecom specialist
HD Supply and Agile Sourcing Partners ink deal
HD Supply Utilities, North America’s largest electric utilities distributor, and Agile Sourcing Partners Inc., Corona, Calif., a minority-owned provider of integrated materials and services for utilities, announced an equity relationship Agile Sourcing Partners is a diverse business enterprise and a California Public Utility Commission-certified Woman, Minority-owned Busines. Details to follow in next week’s issue of Electrical Marketing.
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Nexxus Lighting going direct with LEDs with online storefront
Nexxus Lighting Inc., Charlotte, N.C., says the distribution models now used to sell lighting products are “antiquated” and plans to sell LEDs direct to commercial customers via ArrayLEDdirect.com.
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Schneider Electric’s Harris to retire at year-end
Schneider Electric announced today that after more than 20 years of service, Ralph Harris, the company’s senior vice president, sales and marketing, plans to retire at the end of 2011. Harris has held numerous leadership positions in sales, marketing and organizational development throughout his career with Square D Co. and Schneider Electric, most recently having responsibility for the company’s U.S. Power Business sales and marketing organization.
Mersen to acquire provider of busbars
Mersen, Newburyport, Mass., has entered into an agreement in principle with Eldre, the largest worldwide pure player in laminated busbars, for its acquisition. This acquisition allows Mersen to expand its current product range supporting the improvement of efficiency, performance and safety of power electronics. Already a global provider of fuses and cooling products for the protection of semiconductors, Mersen will now add laminated busbars to its bundled offer.
Based in Rochester, N.Y., Eldre is a family-owned business with manufacturing facilities in Rochester and Saint Sylvain d’Anjou, France, that employs approximately 300 people. The business will be integrated into Mersen’s Electrical Components and Technologies segment and will contribute an additional annual revenue of c. 40 million USD.
Marc Vinet, Group V.P., Electrical Protection and a member of Mersen management board said, “I’m delighted to welcome the team that has driven Eldre to its leading position. With our on-going portfolio expansion and our current global operations, we bring our application expertise and logistic support to our partner customers at the heart of their power electronics solutions.”
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Larry French receives award from Arlington Industries
Arlington’s Ray Kennedy, national sales manager (right), recently presented French with this plaque to commemorate French’s long partnership with Arlington.
Border States names new CFO
Border States Electric (BSE) (Fargo, N.D.): Jeremy Welsand is now chief CFO and a member of the company’s executive council. He was an audit partner in the Minneapolis, Minn., office of Grant Thornton, where he led client relationships for annual audits, due diligence and transactional engagements for private and public companies. He was also responsible for providing U.S. and international accounting expertise for a variety of assurance engagements while serving as the U.S. resident specialist for Grant Thornton UK LLP from 2005 to 2007.
Taking a walk on Holophane’s night-time demo lighting tour
The latest entry in Electrical Wholesaling’s “Now why didn’t some think of this before?” contest is Holophane’s Night Time Demo, which you can take by appointment at the Acuity Brands campus in Granville, Ohio, or by clicking through this online tour.
The tour is intended to help customers increase their outdoor lighting knowledge by walking through a series of outdoor lighting environments and experiencing first-hand the quality of different outdoor lighting technologies. The Night Time Demo includes dozens of outdoor lighting solutions displayed in multiple environments — walkways, parking lots, streets and roadways – throughout the Acuity Brands campus in Granville. The demonstration site allows customers to view product performance, observe lighting effects, compare different lighting sources, and survey multiple luminaire styles.
“It’s an extremely efficient and productive way to experience outdoor lighting technologies in real applications,” said Greg Subisak, director of lighting education for the Granville facility, “In many cases, an instantaneous comparison of systems can be viewed. For example, a comparison of a road lit with luminaires using an LED light source and the same road lit with luminaires using a high pressure sodium light source can be made at several viewing stations.”
Cape Electrical Supply hires new CFO
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EC&M is looking for the product of the year
Our friends here at Electrical Construction & Maintenance (EC&M) magazine are now accepting entries for their 2012 Product of the Year awards.
The EC&M Product of the Year competition was established in 2000 to honor excellence in new product development in the electrical industry. The prestigious awards program showcases the most innovative products of the past year and recognizes the talent and commitment of the people involved in development — from concept through sales and marketing. EC&M is proud to bestow these awards on inventive products that help electrical professionals do their jobs more efficiently and effectively.
All product entries will be judged by a panel of electrical experts, including engineers, contractors, and plant/facility personnel, selected by the EC&M editorial staff from a pool of the magazine’s readers. The panel will review and vote on each entry. The judges will also be given an opportunity to comment on each product. If requested, EC&M will willingly share these comments with you. Results of the initial judging will produce a winner for each product category in up to 25 categories.
Click here for more details on getting your favorite product considered by the judges. May the best widget win!