Chris Baynes now president at Baynes Electric Supply

Baynes Electric Supply Co. Inc., (Brockton, Mass.): Chris Baynes has been appointed as the new company president. He has spent the last eight years as vice president at the company, where he was responsible for cross-functional management of the ...
Sept. 23, 2009
Baynes Electric Supply Co. Inc., (Brockton, Mass.): Chris Baynes has been appointed as the new company president. He has spent the last eight years as vice president at the company, where he was responsible for cross-functional management of the business and for building strong customer, manufacturer and vendor relationships in preparation for this new leadership post. Baynes replaces his father, Louis Baynes, who will become chairman of the board. Louis Baynes has been a part of the company since its founding in 1956. He first joined the company while still in high school and learned the business by working in warehousing and logistics. He joined the company full time in 1968 and held every position from truck driver to inside sales, and in 1981 was named president. Under his leadership the company grew from two branch locations to eleven and became a leader in the region's lighting and electrical business.

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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.