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People - Dec 21, 2012

Dec. 21, 2012
Plenty of executive appointments over the past two weeks. Here’s Electrical Marketing’s expanded coverage of personnel changes in the electrical market.

Obituaries - Dec 21, 2012

Dec. 21, 2012
Wire man John Pasqual and lighting rep Jack Melnick
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November EPI Index Shows No Change

Dec. 21, 2012
Electrical product prices remained on their flat trend, showing no change from October and little change in almost all major product categories.
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Housing Starts Dip 4% in November

Dec. 21, 2012
Privately-owned housing starts in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 861,000, 3% below the revised October estimate, but 21.6% above the Nov. 2011 rate.

Around the Industry - Dec 21, 2012

Dec. 21, 2012
Veteran reps form new agency in Raleigh; WinWholesale buys Lloyd Graves in Texas; United Electric Supply expands through acquisition; and more.

Grainger Buys Diverse Distributor of Test Equipment and Related Workplace Products

Dec. 21, 2012
W.W. Grainger Inc., Lake Forest, Ill., announced plans to purchase Techni-Tool Inc., Worcester, Pa., a 200-plus employee distributor supplying customers in the cable television...

Schneider Authorizes Kaman Nationwide to Gain More Traction in Industrial Market

Dec. 21, 2012
Kaman Industrial Technologies (KIT), the industrial distribution business Kaman Corp., Bloomfield, Conn., has built up in recent acquisitions of Minarik, Zeller Electric and others...

NYC’s Bloomberg Says Con Ed to Invest $250 Million to Harden Grid & Other Utilities

Dec. 7, 2012
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered an update on the city’s plans to renovate its infrastructure to withstand future storms.
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NEMA’s EBCI Index for Current Conditions Shows Solid Gains in November

Dec. 7, 2012
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American business conditions climbed nearly 13 points to 58.3 in November, its third straight monthly...

Bridgeport Fittings Pays Arlington Industries $3.62 Million in Long-Running Patent Dispute

Dec. 7, 2012
Bridgeport Fittings, Stratford, Conn., paid Arlington Industries, Scranton, Pa., $3.62 million last week because of a court judgement for sales of its infringing Whipper-Snap ...

Obituaries - Dec 7, 2012

Dec. 7, 2012
Panduit founder Jack Caveney Sr.; Art Weisberg of State Electric and Service Wire.

Around the Industry - Dec 7, 2012

Dec. 7, 2012
Lighting system shipments slip; Madison Electric opens DC in California; EMCOR wins Army project; PG&E applauds OneSource for green projects; and more.

People - Dec 7, 2012

Dec. 7, 2012
Nord named president of Hubbell; new business development manager at Nicor lighting; Fartaj named interim CEO at Cape Electrical Supply, Thoma named president; and more.
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Construction’s Rocky Recovery Continues

Dec. 7, 2012
An analysis by Associated General Contractors, Washington, D.C., of the latest construction employment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows construction employment...

Siemens Clarifies Plan for Spin-Off of Osram, Reorganization Includes 4,700 Job Cuts

Dec. 7, 2012
Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, clarified plans for a spin-off of its Osram lighting business in preparation for an independent listing on public exchanges.

Canada’s Independent Distributor Buying Groups Join Forces in Merger of AD and IED

Dec. 7, 2012
Affiliated Distributors (AD), Wayne, Pa., announced on Nov. 14 that it had struck a merger agreement with Independent Electrical Distributors (IED), based in Mississauga, Ontario...

Rep News - Nov 16, 2012

Nov. 16, 2012
Lyte-Tronics takes on Nora line.

People - Nov 16, 2012

Nov. 16, 2012
Dakota Supply, BICSI, Crestron, Halco, Nicor and more.