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Plenty of executive appointments over the past two weeks. Here’s Electrical Marketing’s expanded coverage of personnel changes in the electrical market.
Dec. 21, 2012
Wire man John Pasqual and lighting rep Jack Melnick
Dec. 21, 2012
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Electrical product prices remained on their flat trend, showing no change from October and little change in almost all major product categories.
Dec. 21, 2012
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Privately-owned housing starts in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 861,000, 3% below the revised October estimate, but 21.6% above the Nov. 2011 rate.
Dec. 21, 2012
Dec. 21, 2012
Veteran reps form new agency in Raleigh; WinWholesale buys Lloyd Graves in Texas; United Electric Supply expands through acquisition; and more.
Dec. 21, 2012
W.W. Grainger Inc., Lake Forest, Ill., announced plans to purchase Techni-Tool Inc., Worcester, Pa., a 200-plus employee distributor supplying customers in the cable television...
Dec. 21, 2012
Kaman Industrial Technologies (KIT), the industrial distribution business Kaman Corp., Bloomfield, Conn., has built up in recent acquisitions of Minarik, Zeller Electric and others...
Dec. 21, 2012
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered an update on the city’s plans to renovate its infrastructure to withstand future storms.
Dec. 7, 2012

Obituary

Claude L. Brown, 96, passed away peacefully on Sept. 28. He spent 34 years with Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Lamp Division, with 32 years in Owensboro,
Dec. 23, 2010

Claude L. Brown, 96, passed away peacefully on Sept. 28. He spent 34 years with Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Lamp Division, with 32 years in Owensboro, Ky., as general manager of the Ken-Rad Lamp division and two years in Bloomfield, N.J., as national accounts manager. After retiring, he moved back to Kentucky in 1974 and joined his son, Norman L. Brown, at Bluegrass Lighting Products, which later became Southland Electric and was sold to Rexel in 1997. He is survived by his wife, Josephine Howard Brown, Lexington; son, Norman L. Brown, Lexington; daughter, Mary Brown Eckler, Louisville; six grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.