Graybar Bolsters Business in Colorado’s Front Range with Blazer Electric Supply Deal
Graybar Electric Co., St. Louis, MO acquired Blazer Electric Supply, Colorado Springs, CO, which serves construction, commercial, institutional and industrial customers along Colorado’s Front Range.
Blazer Electric Supply was founded in 2009 and operates two locations in southern Colorado. The company is ranked #101 on Electrical Wholesaling’s 2023 Top 150 listing with $88 million in 2022 sales and 115 employees. Blazer Electric Supply was the subject of a Jan. 2010 Electrical Wholesaling cover story about how Steve Blazer, president, and his brother, Mike Blazer, relaunched Blazer Electric Supply 2.0, after previously selling their family business to Westburne in 1999 (subsequently acquired by Rexel).
As a subsidiary of Graybar, the company will operate under the Blazer Electric Supply name. Trevor Blazer will serve as president, and the company’s employees will continue to support customers with the same products, solutions and services.
“I am incredibly proud of our company and grateful for the employees who have been so instrumental in our success,” said Steve Blazer in the press release. “This is an exciting new chapter for our company. Joining forces with Graybar presents a tremendous opportunity to expand our service capabilities and grow our business for the long term. It also allows us to sustain a distinctive culture and positive work environment for our employees. I am confident that we have a bright future as part of Graybar.”
“Blazer is a market leader in its territory,” said Kathleen Mazzarella, Graybar’s chairman, president and CEO, in the press release. “Blazer fits well with Graybar’s core values, our people-oriented culture and our long-term growth strategy.”
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Over the past 40-plus years, hundreds of Jim’s articles have been published in Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter on topics such as the impact of new competitors on the electrical market’s channels of distribution, energy-efficient lighting and renewables, and local market economics. In addition to his published work, Jim regularly gives presentations on these topics to C-suite executives, industry groups and investment analysts.
He launched a new subscription-based data product for Electrical Marketing that offers electrical sales potential estimates and related market data for more than 300 metropolitan areas, and in 1999 he published his first book, “The Electrical Marketer’s Survival Guide” for electrical industry executives looking for an overview of key market trends.
While managing Electrical Wholesaling’s editorial operations, Jim and the publication’s staff won several Jesse H. Neal awards for editorial excellence, the highest honor in the business press, and numerous national and regional awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors. He has a master’s degree in Communications and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, N.J. (now Rowan University).