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    WESCO enters Big Apple

    May 1, 2003
    WESCO Distribution, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., agreed to buy the assets and business of Liberty Electrical Supply Co., Brooklyn, N.Y. Terms of the deal were

    WESCO Distribution, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., agreed to buy the assets and business of Liberty Electrical Supply Co., Brooklyn, N.Y. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

    Liberty Electrical and its 35 employees will become part of the Avon Division of WESCO Distribution, based in Hauppauge, N.Y. Liberty Electrical principals Harvey Ball, Robert Frank and Steve Meyer will continue in their present roles.

    The acquisition of Liberty Electrical gets WESCO even closer to the action in New York City, says Lenny Moskowitz, Avon's president.

    Both Liberty Electrical and Avon concentrate on the contractor market, but during the last year to 18 months, both companies have branched out to do more industrial business. WESCO will continue to operate Liberty Electrical either as Liberty Electrical or Liberty and Avon Electric, a division of WESCO Distribution.

    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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