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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

Echelon joins smart grid coalition

Echelon Corp., San Jose, Calif., has joined The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG), a trade association for companies that provide products and services in the demand response and smart grid area.
Feb. 27, 2009

Echelon Corp., San Jose, Calif., has joined The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG), a trade association for companies that provide products and services in the demand response and smart grid area. The group aims to raise awareness of how smart grid technologies and demand response practices will modernize and strengthen the national electricity system. Echelon provides both an advanced metering system and networking technology that can extend energy management applications down into individual devices inside homes and businesses. The company’s Networked Energy Services advanced metering infrastructure system is used by utilities worldwide as part of their effort to modernize their grids. Echelon’s LonWorks infrastructure technology is used in energy management solutions for commercial buildings, retail stores, quick-service restaurants and other businesses, as well as for monitored street lighting systems.