Dauer Manufacturing, Miami, a manufacturer of LED landscape lighting fixtures, lamps and transformers, appointed Warren Thoma & Associates, Huntley, IL, as their manufacturers’ representative across multiple states in the U.S. With a line of commercial and residential low-voltage lighting solutions, Dauer will be the exclusive landscape lighting manufacturer within the Warren Thoma portfolio among garden centers, showrooms, electrical supply centers and irrigation supply houses in select states.
Since 1991, Warren Thoma & Associates has been representing manufacturers in irrigation, filtration, drainage, low-voltage lighting, gardening products and fountains and aerators to the professional and commercial channels. Warren Thoma will represent Dauer among garden centers, showrooms, electrical supply centers, and irrigation supply houses in eighteen states across the Midwest, South, and Northeast regions. States covered include Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
The team at Warren Thoma will report to Dauer’s national sales director, Tom Rowe. Dauer will continue to be responsible for direct contractors, lighting only wholesalers, hardscape distributors, and holiday lighting distributors in the newly appointed states and maintains its current sales team, which also includes sales director, Curtis Butts; sales managers, Woody Luke, Nick Lahey, and James Kinchen; and inside sales manager, Matt Oakes.