Investment Banker Robert W. Baird Quotes Electrical Wholesaling in Report on M&A Activity in the Electrical Market

Interesting report just released on M&A trends in the electrical market by Robert W. Baird & Co., an investment banking firm based in Milwaukee. The report says M&A activity in this market will increase as the economy improves. In part the report said, ...
Nov. 12, 2009

Interesting report just released on M&A trends in the electrical market by Robert W. Baird & Co., an investment banking firm based in Milwaukee. The report says M&A activity in this market will increase as the economy improves. In part the report said, "Given the industry's appeal and consolidation drivers, we expect the building backlog of deals to translate to pent-up demand among strategic buyers and private equity firms once the M&A market recovers."

By the way, information from Electrical Wholesaling magazine was sourced extensively in the report, including EW's Electrical Pyramid and data from its 2009 Top 200 listing.

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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.