Colonial Electric Supply, King of Prussia, Pa., announced plans to open its 21th counter location in Lancaster, Pa. The new location is expected to open its doors within the third quarter of 2011 and will be located at 221 Pitney Road, Lancaster, Pa., near Route 30. John Rodman, formerly of Yale Electric, is joining the Colonial Electric team as V.P. of Colonial's Western Region. Rodman comes with over 30 years experience in the electrical industry in the York and Lancaster area and will lead the expansion in Lancaster and the growth in Colonial's Western territory. With $153 million in sales, Colonial Electric Supply was ranked No. 42 on Electrical Wholesaling's 2011 Top 200.
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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.