Summit Electric Supply To Open Two New Branches In Florida

Summit Electric Supply, Albuquerque, will open two new service centers in Florida: one in Orlando and one in Jacksonville. Summit said it has had close ties with the Florida electrical market since it hired Drew Ott, a former Hughes Supply Co. executive, as vice president of sales earlier this year. Ott had been an upper level executive with Hughes Supply in Orlando and joined Summit one week after Home Depot bought Hughes Supply (See EM, Jan. 27, 2006).

Although the new Florida branches will not open for several months, Summit Electric has named the branch managers. Harvey Neeley will be the service center leader in Orlando. He most recently led a Hughes Supply branch in Orlando. John Truss, also a Hughes Supply veteran, will lead Summit’s Jacksonville service center. (See People on page 5.) Summit is ranked the nation’s 23rd largest electrical distributor, according to Electrical Wholesaling magazine’s 2006 Top 200 listing. Including the new Florida locations, Summit will have more than 500 associates operating 20 service centers in states including Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico and Texas.