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Anicom acquires Canadian distributor

Oct. 1, 2003
Anicom, Inc., Rosemont, Ill., acquired Texcan Cables, Vancouver, British Columbia, a specialty distributor in wire, cable, fiber optics and connectivity

Anicom, Inc., Rosemont, Ill., acquired Texcan Cables, Vancouver, British Columbia, a specialty distributor in wire, cable, fiber optics and connectivity products, for a combination of cash and stock. Texcan does about $116 million in annual sales through 13 locations in Canada and seven locations in the United States. The purchase price consisted of approximately 1,400,000 shares of Anicom common stock and preferred stock convertible into another 1,400,000 shares of common stock, as well as $27 million in cash and the assumption of $12 million in bank debt. Texcan is Anicom's 16th acquisition in three years.

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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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