USESI to Build Mid-Atlantic Presence with Purchase of Rahway/Asbury

Feb. 23, 2007
US Electrical Services LLC (USESI), Exton, Pa., is continuing to build its Mid-Atlantic region with the addition of Rahway Electric Supply Co. Inc

US Electrical Services LLC (USESI), Exton, Pa., is continuing to build its Mid-Atlantic region with the addition of Rahway Electric Supply Co. Inc. (“Rahway”), Rahway, N.J., and its subsidiary Asbury Park Electric Supply (“Asbury”).

Rahway/Asbury has been supplying electrical contractors in Northern and Central New Jersey for almost 27 years. Robert Pileggi and Timothy Zaccaro. Zaccaro and Pileggi took control of Rahway Electric in 1994 and, after several years, opened their second location in Asbury Park, N.J. Pileggi, Zaccaro and the staff of Rahway/Asbury will remain with the company.

In only eight months since USESI completed its first acquisition, Monarch Electric Co., West Caldwell, N.J., USESI has added four distributors to the Mid-Atlantic region: Duplex Electrical Supply Corp., Port Washington, N.Y., Fox Electric Supply Co., Philadelphia, Max Goldman Inc., New Rochelle, N.Y., which has served the Westchester County market for more than 100 years, and now Rahway/Asbury.

USESI has also added three branches in the Mid-Atlantic region in Belford, N.J.; Ronkonkoma, N.Y.; and Rockville Center, N.Y. All operate under the Monarch Electric name. The company also opened a Tech Center for Fox Electric Supply in Turnersville, N.J., which includes the lighting, switchgear and major projects groups for the South New Jersey and Philadelphia area.

“All of these are excellent companies, which fit our high service level model very well and have good geographic diversity, which helps us leverage our distribution centers, which are located in Monarch’s West Caldell, N.J., facility and Fox’s Philadelphia facility,” said Greg Griswold, president, USESI Mid-Atlantic region.