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Cutler-Hammer restructures units

Oct. 1, 2003
In an effort to speed up product development, provide faster response to customers and pursue global expansion, Cutler-Hammer, a division of Cleveland-based

In an effort to speed up product development, provide faster response to customers and pursue global expansion, Cutler-Hammer, a division of Cleveland-based Eaton Corp., restructured its business effective Sept. 1. Cutler-Hammer will consist of four interrelated units: a single Global Market and Sales Organization serving the entire Cutler-Hammer business, two Product Development and Production Operations and the most newly formed Engineering Services and Systems Operations, says David Wathen, senior vice president and group executive.

Wathen says the integration of Cutler-Hammer's sales and marketing activities into a single organization which will report to the newly promoted vice president of Global Sales and Marketing Operations. Further appointments in each organization will be announced shortly, according to a company spokesperson.

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Doug has been reporting and writing on the electrical industry for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing since 1992 and still finds the industry’s evolution and the characters who inhabit its companies endlessly fascinating. That was true even before e-commerce, LED lighting and distributed generation began to disrupt so many of the electrical industry’s traditional practices.

Doug earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Kansas after spending a few years in KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism, then deciding he absolutely did not want to be a journalist. In the company of his wife, two kids, two dogs and two cats, he spends a lot of time in the garden and the kitchen – growing food, cooking, brewing beer – and helping to run the family coffee shop.

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