Rexel Holdings USA, Dallas, has been named one of the “World’s Most Admired Companies” according to Fortune magazine’s 2013 annual survey, ranking third in the Wholesalers: Diversified category, up from fourth place in 2012. The Rexel Group, headquartered in Paris, also ranked 10th among the 25 French companies selected to the list. Chris Hartmann, executive V.P. and CEO of Rexel Holdings USA said in a press release, “Our continued commitment to our customers, suppliers and our employees is at the heart of our mission and I am glad that it has been recognized by this acknowledgement from Fortune.”
Rexel Holdings USA now has annual sales of more than $3.8 billion, 6,000 employees and 400 branches throughout the U.S.
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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.