AD U.S. electrical sales grew 4% in the first quarter of 2013 on a same-store basis to $2.9 billion, according to a press release issued recently by the Affiliated Distributors (AD) marketing/buying group, Wayne, Pa.
John Eggleton, AD’s president, U.S. Electrical Division, said in the release, “The first quarter of 2013 was challenging for many distribution entities. In contrast, AD’s affiliates grew 4% on a same-store basis. Industry experts, along with full-line electrical distributors and manufacturers, expect conservative growth in 2013 in the low single digits or even flat. Our members’ expectations are greater than that and reflect continued market share growth.”
Sales for all AD affiliates, across all AD divisions, grew by 5% in the first quarter to $6.5 billion. AD Affiliates outgrew their markets in the quarter in every AD division. In the last three months, AD affiliates hired 1,079 new employees and opened 41 new locations.
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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.