Franklin Empire Inc., Montreal, has acquired all the operations of Electra Supply, Cambridge, Ontario. The acquisition includes the Electra Supply's branches in London and Windsor, Ontario, in addition to the company's headquarters location in Cambridge. In other news at Franklin Empire, the company has been appointed as the exclusive distributor of Siemens Automation and Control products for southwestern Ontario.
The 70-year-old Franklin Empire has 12 branches in Quebec and eight in Ontario, including the Electra Supply locations. The company is a member of Affiliated Distributors and was ranked #161 on Electrical Wholesaling's most recent ranking of the 200 largest distributors in North America.
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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.