Griffith Electric Supply “Powered by America” trade show attracts 200 attendees
In early October, Griffith Electric Supply Co., Trenton, N.J, welcomed 200 people to its facility for a Powered By America trade show. Included were the 21 suppliers that support the program, and for that day, exhibited only products that their company makes in the USA. The warehouse and tables were decked out in red, white and blue and the suppliers were encouraged to “Americanize” their displays. Griffith Electric implemented this program in early 2012, in an effort to support the American workers by supporting American manufacturing. You can learn more about this program at www.PoweredByAmerica.net.
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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.