Plenty of executive appointments over the past two weeks. Here’s Electrical Marketing’s expanded coverage of personnel changes in the electrical market.
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.
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...
Kaman Industrial Technologies (KIT), the industrial distribution business Kaman Corp., Bloomfield, Conn., has built up in recent acquisitions of Minarik, Zeller Electric and others...
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, Stratford, Conn., paid Arlington Industries, Scranton, Pa., $3.62 million last week because of a court judgement for sales of its infringing Whipper-Snap ...
Lighting system shipments slip; Madison Electric opens DC in California; EMCOR wins Army project; PG&E applauds OneSource for green projects; and more.
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.
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 AG, Munich, Germany, clarified plans for a spin-off of its Osram lighting business in preparation for an independent listing on public exchanges.
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...
