WinWholesale Inc., Dayton, Ohio, has acquired Lloyd Graves Electrical Supply, Spring, Texas. The company, which serves electrical contractors in a 60-mile radius in a market area that includes Houston, is operating as Graves Winlectric.
A WinWholesale press release says Scott Hudson, former operations manager of the company, is the manager of Graves Winlectric. The late Lloyd Graves founded the company in Jan. 1973. Owner/president Bob Graves recently retired. The company has 14 employees with combined experience of 150 years who remain on the staff of Graves Winlectric. Winwholesale’s electrical operations are ranked #46 on Electrical Wholesaling’s Top 200 ranking.
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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.