Ewing Foley, Inc., Cupertino, Calif., was awarded General Cable’s 2012 Electrical Distribution Channel Agent of the Year at the recent annual conference of the National Electrical Manufacturers Representatives Association (NEMRA) Annual Conference that was held in Chicago last month. Serving the West Coast and Pacific Northwest industry for more than 50 years, Ewing Foley represents General Cable’s Carol Brandportable cord, cordsets, electronics, building wire, data, low-voltage and 5kV to 35kV medium-voltage industrial, tray and instrumentation, and CCW Continuously Corrugated Welded cables.
At the NEMRA conference, General Cable also presented the Agent Inside Sales Associate of the Year Award and Director’s Club Agent Awards. Ira Shapiro of Thea & Schoen, Clifton N.J., won the Agent Inside Sales Associate of the Year. Director’s Club Agents include all independent manufacturers’ reps who met and/or exceeded year-over-year sales in both adjusted sales dollars and metal pounds, as well as experienced gross margin performance in at least one of two specific categories. The 2012 winners are: Byron Carson Co. Inc., Memphis, Tenn.; Coresential, Tampa, Fla.; C.C. Pierce Co., Inc., Duxbury, Mass.; Continental Sales & Marketing, San Leandro, Calif.; EMMCO & Associates Inc., Houston; ET Cable Sales & Associates, Petersborough, N.H.; Ewing Foley Inc.; Gaynor Sales & Associates, Minneapolis; Gobeille-Robinson Inc., Mansfield, Ohio; Rains Electrical Sales Inc., Shawnee Mission, Kan.; Thea & Schoen; William Bleiman & Sons Inc., Conshohocken, Pa.; and Young & Champagne, Detroit.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.