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    WESCO nabs new Canadian supplies contract

    April 1, 2003
    The federal government of Canada and the Province of Saskatchewan have designated WESCO Distribution-Canada, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of WESCO

    The federal government of Canada and the Province of Saskatchewan have designated WESCO Distribution-Canada, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of WESCO Distribution, Inc., Pittsburgh, as the primary vendor for a new supplies contract for 1998 and 1999. The total value of the government's "standing offer" for supplies is $6.3 million (Canadian). As the primary vendor, WESCO expects at least $3.15 million in new business from government agencies over the next two years. WESCO currently has more than 10 similar blanket contracts with the Canadian government that generate more than $5 million in total annual sales.

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    Doug Chandler | Senior Staff Writer

    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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