Border States Electric to close two Texas branches
Border States Electric, Fargo, N.D., is consolidating resources in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and will close its McAllen and Weslaco branches on Ja. 26, according to a company press release. The release says the change will increase the number of ...
Border States Electric, Fargo, N.D., is consolidating resources in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and will close its McAllen and Weslaco branches on Ja. 26, according to a company press release. The release says the change will increase the number of employees, build up inventory, and augment the delivery fleet in the company's Brownsville, Edinburg and Harlingen, Texas, locations to enhance customer service.
“We believe consolidating resources in Brownsville, Edinburg and Harlingen will allow us to better serve our customers and expand our service offering in the Rio Grande Valley,” said Tammy Miller, CEO, in the press statement.
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.
