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    PEPCO buys Electrical Equipment Co.

    April 1, 2003
    Moving back into the high-voltage and utility market, PEPCO (Professional Electric Products Co.), Eastlake, Ohio, made its first acquisition last month

    Moving back into the high-voltage and utility market, PEPCO (Professional Electric Products Co.), Eastlake, Ohio, made its first acquisition last month with the purchase of Electrical EquipmentCo., Macedonia, Ohio. Details of the transaction were not disclosed.

    The acquisition takes PEPCO back into the utility market and diversifies its electrical and datacom product lines.

    Electrical Equipment Co., with 1998 sales of about $9 million and 15 employees, will move into PEPCO's Eastlake corporate facility as the company's High-Voltage/Utility Division. Rob Winings, Sr., former owner of Electrical Equipment Co., will remain as a consultant.

    About the Author

    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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