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    A-D wins MRO contract for 90 GM locations

    April 1, 2003
    Affiliated Distributors (A-D), Wayne, Pa., won several blanket order agreements with General Motors Corp. (GM), Detroit, Mich. A-D distributors will supply

    Affiliated Distributors (A-D), Wayne, Pa., won several blanket order agreements with General Motors Corp. (GM), Detroit, Mich. A-D distributors will supply electrical MRO products to about 90 GM locations, said Tom Wright, director of national accounts for A-D.

    The agreements cover products manufactured by Thomas & Betts Corp., Memphis, Tenn.; Edwards Signaling Products, Cheshire, Conn.; Connomac Corp., Lagrange, Ill.; and Carol Cable, Highland Heights, Ky. Estimated sales from the contracts will be $1 million to $2 million, Wright said. About 35 A-D distributors are included in the contract.

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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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