Hubbell and Kirby Risk Electrical Supply win IDEA’s Richard Buzun Award
At the 2012 IDEA E-Biz Forum held recently in Dallas, Hubbell Inc., Orange, Conn., and Kirby Risk Electrical Supply Lafayette, Ind., were the manufacturer and distributor recipients for the sixth annual Richard Buzun Award for Leadership and Innovation in eBusiness. Phil Barrios, senior director, e-business & marketing, Hubbell Inc., and John Burke, president, Kirby Risk Electrical Supply, accepted the awards on behalf of the winning companies.
In presenting the awards, Bob Gaylord, IDEA’s president said, “The 2012 winners are especially commended for their e-business leadership, continuing commitment to industry initiatives and incorporation of new technology to the benefit of not only themselves, but also their trading partners and the industry as a whole. Both have led by example and given back to the industry by sharing their best practices, methodology and resource.” Details
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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.