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Halco Focuses on Core
David Gordon Posted On June 9, 2022

Halco Lighting

Halco recently announced the sale of their specialty lighting business to Hayward Industries, a leading pool and irrigation manufacturer. Every electrical / lighting distributor is familiar with Halco and their lamp, ballast and fixture offering. It’s probably fair to say […]


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Recent Small Distributor Acquisitions
David Gordon Posted On June 5, 2022

Distributor Acquisitions

Over the past few months there have been a number of small electrical distributor acquisitions that seemingly have fallen below the industry radar. These include: PDI acquired 9 location W.A. Bragg in eastern Georgia and western South Carolina. According to […]


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Halco Divests Specialty Lighting Biz to Hayward
Linda Longo Posted On June 2, 2022

Halco Hayward

Georgia-based manufacturer Halco Lighting Technologies has sold its specialty lighting business – which includes such recognized brands as ColorSplash®, J&J Electronics™, PureWhite®, and Sollos® Landscape Lighting – to Hayward Holdings, Inc. Halco’s specialty lighting business includes a robust portfolio of lighting solutions serving the residential […]


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Border States Enters the Windy City
David Gordon Posted On April 21, 2022

Border States purchases Advance Electrical

Border States, the electrical distribution industry’s largest employee-owned distributor, re-entered the acquisition market and entered the Chicago market. This is their first foray into the Windy City and is the largest metropolitan area that the company has entered. According to […]


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SJE, a system integrator, expands to New England
David Gordon Posted On April 13, 2022

SJE Acquires Horlick

It’s not often that the acquisition of a distributor’s “customer” would be newsworthy from a national scale but SJE’s recent acquisition of Horlick, a New England based system integrator caught our attention. Why? Because the acquirer, SJE, is also owned […]


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March Closes with 7 Acquisitions
David Gordon Posted On April 11, 2022

Electrical Distributor Deals

March closed with a rash of acquisitions or perhaps many were ones that were going to occur at the end of the year. The following acquisitions occurred recently: Manufacturers NSi acquired Metallics Littelfuse acquired C&K Switches Southwire acquired Novinium Distributors […]


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Sonepar – Doubling Down for Acquisitions?
David Gordon Posted On March 6, 2022

Sonepar What's Next

We know, like most other distributors, that Sonepar USA had a “good” 2021. At least enough to enable it to carry out any planned acquisitions but, perhaps the recent news that it sold Vallen is a hint that they are […]


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Wire Distributors Being Acquired
David Gordon Posted On February 20, 2022

Allied Wire Cable

Electrical and datacom distributors are used to going to wire and cable distributors as a source for “niche” wire and cable products. These unique products could be for specialty cable, brands they are not authorized to carry or for special […]


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GE Current Completes Hubbell® Acquisition Under Current Brand
David Gordon Posted On February 10, 2022

Current - GE Current + Hubbell Lighting

As expected – in fact, perhaps a little earlier than most in the industry anticipated – GE Current, a Daintree company, completed its acquisition of Hubbell® Inc.’s commercial and industrial (C&I) lighting business. The combined new business will be branded […]


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Acquisitions Continue – Kele, Lester & More Coming
David Gordon Posted On February 1, 2022

Electrical Distribution Mergers Acquisitions

While many expected a significant number of acquisitions to be announced at the end of the year, anticipated changes in the tax code seem to have delayed many of them. According to sources who were involved in distributor and manufacturer […]


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