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    Crescent buys DESCO

    Feb. 1, 2003
    Crescent Electric Supply Co., East Dubuque, Ill., expanded its operations into Tennessee with the purchase of DESCO, Inc., Nashville. Terms of the agreement

    Crescent Electric Supply Co., East Dubuque, Ill., expanded its operations into Tennessee with the purchase of DESCO, Inc., Nashville. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

    Jerry Scott, former president of Crescent Electric Supply, is coming out of retirement and returning to Crescent as branch manager of the DESCO operations, with responsibility for operations and sales functions. Scott left Crescent at the end of 1993 for personal reasons. He said he is returning to manage DESCO because he felt he was "ready for a challenge and an opportunity to be part of the growth process."

    DESCO, with locations in Nashville and Murfreesboro, Tenn., is the 227th largest electrical distributor in the country, with 54 employees and 1996 sales of approximately $24 million. Crescent Electric Supply is the nation's 12th largest electrical distributor.

    Henry Dorris, who founded DESCO with his former partner, John D. Harris, in 1969, said he is selling the company to pursue personal interests.

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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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