General Cable, Highland Heights, Ky., named C.C. Pierce Co. Inc., Duxbury, Mass., as its 2011 Electrical Distribution Channel Agent of the Year at last week's National Electrical Manufacturers Representative Association (NEMRA) Annual Conference, which was held in San Diego.
General Cable also presented the Agent Inside Sales Associate of the Year Award and Director's Club Agent Awards at NEMRA. Dusty Mathis of Gaynor Sales, Minneapolis, won the award for inside sales associates.
The following companies were selected as Inside Sales Director's Club Agents, which are agents that exceeded sales plan as well as year-over-year growth in metal adjusted sales dollars: Cardel-Criste, Pittsburgh; C.C. Pierce; Davenport & Associates, Nashville, Tenn.; EMMCO & Associates, Houston; ET Cable Sales, Peterborough, N.H.; Gobeille-Robinson Inc., Mansfield, Ohio; Gorin-Hopper & McCoy, Norcross, Ga.; Lester Sales Co., Indianapolis, Ind.; Rains Electrical Sales Inc., Shawnee, Kan.; Stone Sales Agency Inc., Conway, Ark.; Syn-Tech Inc., Metairie, La.; Vertex Innovative Solutions, Syracuse, N.Y.; Vincent-Angel Inc., Greensboro, N.C.; and Young & Champagne, Detroit.
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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.