This list is a handy resource when you can't find a company. Many of these brands were once independent companies that have been acquired by larger corporations over the last 20 years. Some of these brands live on, while others are not actively promoted. The brand names are in bold type with the parent following the slash.

A.B. Chance/Hubbell

ADT/Tyco

Aetna Insulated Wire and Cable/Marmon Group

AFC/Tyco

Agastat/Tyco

Aickinstrut/Tyco

Alera Lighting/Hubbell Lighting

Alflex/Southwire

Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Automation

Allied Support Systems/Tyco

Allied Tube & Conduit/Tyco

Alpha Wire/Belden

American Cable Systems (ACS)/Tyco

American Electric Lighting/Acuity Brands

American Moulding (Triangle)/Superior Essex

American Tube Co./Tyco

AMP NetConnect/Tyco

AMP/Tyco

Anaconda Power Cable (BICC)/General Cable

Anchor Electric/Thomas and Betts

Anderson/Hubbell

Angelo Brothers/Westinghouse Lighting Corp.

Anglo/Cable Design Technologies Inc.

Antique Street Lamps/Acuity Brands

Apache Grounding/Erico

Appleton/EGS Electrical Group

Architectural Area Lighting/Hubbell Lighting

Area Lighting Research/Tyco

Arrow Hart/Cooper Industries

Astro Wire & Cable Corp./General Cable

AtLite/Cooper Industries

ATX/EGS Electrical Group

Barcel Wire and Cable Corp./Cable Design Technologies Inc.

Bell/Hubbell

Belden CDT/merger of Belden and Cable Design Technologies (CDT)

BICC (formerly Cablec)/General Cable

Blackburn/Thomas & Betts

B-Line/Cooper Industries

Bowers/Thomas & Betts

Brand-Rex (BICC)/General Cable

Bronzelite/Genlyte Thomas

Brush Fuses/Cooper Industries (Bussmann)

Bryant/Hubbell

Buchanan Construction Products/Ideal

Burndy/FCI

Bussmann/Cooper Industries

Cable USA Inc./Marmon Group

Canada Wire & Cable/Alcatel Wire & Cable Inc./Superior Essex

Canlyte/Genlyte Thomas

Capital Wire & Cable Corp./General Cable

Capri/Genlyte Thomas

Carandini/Acuity Brands

Caribe GE Wiring Devices/Pass and Seymour

Carol Cable Corp./General Cable

Catamount/Thomas & Betts

CEFCO/British General Electric Co. (English Electric Fuse Corp.)

Cekan A/S/Cable Design Technologies Inc.

Centerex/Wiremold

Century Tube/Tyco

Cero Wire and Cable/Marmon Group

Challenger Electrical Equipment Corp./(Westinghouse)/Cutler-Hammer/Eaton Corp.

Chalmit/Hubbell

Chloride Systems/Genlyte Thomas

Circle A-W/B-Line

Cole-Flex Corp./ Cable Design Technologies Inc.

Collyer Insulates Wire (BICC)/General Cable

Columbia Lighting/Hubbell Lighting

Combined Technologies/Cooper Industries

Computel/Communications Supply Corp.

Continental Wire & Cable (BICC)/General Cable

Cooper LED/Cooper Industries

Corelite/Cooper Industries

Crescent/Genlyte Thomas

Crouse-Hinds/Cooper Industries

Curlee/EGS Electrical Group

Day-Brite/Genlyte Thomas

Dearborn Wire and Cable/Cable Design Technologies Inc.

Devine Lighting/Hubbell Lighting

Diversified Wire and Cable Technologies Inc./Communications Supply Corp.

Dual-Lite/Hubbell Lighting

Eagle Electric/Cooper Industries

Easy Heat/EGS Electrical Group

Edison/Cooper Industries

EFI Electronics/Schneider Electric (Square D)

Electroline Manufacturing Co./Thomas and Betts

Electromate/Rital

Elliott Electric Manufacturing Corp./Thomas and Betts

Emco/Genlyte Thomas

Entertainment Technology/Genlyte Thomas

EPE Technologies/Schneider Electric

Essex Power Cable (BICC)/General Cable

ETP/EGS Electrical Group

Ettco Wire and Cable/Marmon Group

Euclid/Hubbell

ExceLine/Genlyte Thomas

E-Z Code/Thomas & Betts

Fail-Safe/Cooper Industries

Fargo/Hubbell

Federal Hose/AFC

Fibertron Corp./Communications Supply Corp.

Fibre Light/Genlyte Thomas

Fluke/Danaher

Forecast/Genlyte Thomas

Fotec/Fluke

Furnas Electric Co./Siemens

Furseweld/Thomas & Betts

GAI-Tronics/Hubbell

Gardco/Genlyte Thomas

GC Thorsen/Katy Industries

GEC Alsthom/Ferraz Shawmut

Genesis Cable/Honeywell

Georgia Pipe/Tyco

Gleason Reel/Hubbell

Glynwed Metals/Tyco

Gotham/Acuity Brands

Gould Shawmut/Carbone Ferraz

Great Northern Wire and Cable/Communications Supply Corp.

Hadco/Genlyte Thomas

Haefely/Hubbell

Halo/Cooper Industries

Hawke International/Hubbell

Hazlux/Thomas & Betts

Heinrich Industrie/Littelfuse

Hipotronics/Hubbell

Holophane/Acuity Brands

Homaco/Wiremold

Horizon/Genlyte Thomas

Hubbell Entertainment Inc./Hubbell Lighting

Hydrel/Acuity Brands

Intech Cable/Belden

Interlink Technologies/Wiremold

Iris/Cooper Industries

Kaf-Tek/Tyco

Kearney/Cooper Industries

Kellems/Hubbell

Keystone/Rittal

Killark/Hubbell

Kim Lighting/Hubbell Lighting

Kindorf/Thomas & Betts

Kin-Line/B-Line

Korns cable clamps/Rob Roy

Kyle/Cooper Industries

Laribee Wire (Triangle)/Superior Essex

Ledalite/Genlyte Thomas

Leroy Somer/Emerson Electric

Lexington/Hubbell

Lightolier/Genlyte Thomas

Lightyguard/Genlyte Thomas

Lite-Energy/Genlyte Thomas

Lithonia/Acuity Brands

Lumark/Cooper Industries

Lumec/Genlyte Thomas

Lumec-Schreder/Genlyte Thomas

Lumiere/Cooper Industries

M. Stephens Manufacturing/Intermatic

Madison Equipment/AFC

Major Liting/Cooper Industries

Manhattan Electric Cable/ Cable Design Technologies Inc.

Marrette/Thomas & Betts

Mar-Tek/Ideal

Matrix/Genlyte Thomas

McGill/EGS Electrical Group

McGraw-Edison/Cooper Industries

McPhilben/Genlyte Thomas

Merlin Gerin/Schneider Electric

MetalOptics/Acuity Brands

Metalux/Cooper Industries

Microtest/Fluke

Midwest Plastic Fabricators/Picoma

MIPCO/Thomas & Betts

Modicon/Square D (Schneider Electric)

Modular Wiring Systems/Cooper Industries

Moeller Group/Advent International

Mohawk/CDT/Cable Design Technologies Inc.

Moldcast/Hubbell Lighting

Myers Electrical Products/Cooper Industries

Mytech/Hubbell

Neer/EGS Electrical Group

NEK/Cable Design Technologies Inc.

Nelson Enclosures and Controls/EGS Electrical Group

Nelson Heat Trace/EGS Electrical Group

Neo-Ray/Cooper Industries

Nevada Western/Thomas & Betts

Nortel Communication Cable/Cable Design Technologies Inc.

NOVA/Cooper Industries

Nutone/Broan

Ocal/Thomas & Betts

Ohio Brass/Hubbell

Omega/Genlyte Thomas

Opcon/Eaton Corp.

Ortronics/Pass and Seymour

O-Z/Gedney/EGS Electrical Group

Peerless/Acuity Brands

Phelps Dodge Cable & Wire Corp. (BICC)/ General Cable

Philadelphia Insulated Wire (PIW)/General Cable

Portfolio/Cooper Industries

Pos-E-Con/Thomas & Betts

Power-Strut/Tyco

Prescolite Life Safety/Hubbell Lighting

Prescolite/Hubbell Lighting

Progress Lighting/Hubbell Lighting

Pulsecom/Hubbell

Raceway Components/Wiremold

Raco/Hubbell

Raychem/Tyco

Raydex/Cable Design Technologies Inc.

Raytek Corp./Fluke

Red Dot/Thomas & Betts

Regent/Cooper Industries

Reiker Industries/Pass and Seymour

Reliable Power Meters/Fluke

Reliance Electric/Siemens Energy and Automation

Reynolds Metal aluminum cable business (BICC)/General Cable

Royal Electric (Triangle)/Superior Essex

RSA Lighting/Cooper Lighting

RTE/Cooper Industries

Russellstoll/Thomas & Betts

Security Lighting Systems/Hubbell Lighting

Shakespeare Composite Structures/Genlyte Thomas

Shamrock/Thomas & Betts

Shaper and Streetworks Shrink-Kon/Thomas & Betts

Siemens Electromechanical Components/Tyco

Sierra Electric/Pass and Seymour

Slater Electric/Pass and Seymour

Sola/Hevi-Duty/EGS Electrical Group

Southwest Wire and Cable Inc./Communications Supply Corp.

Spaulding Lighting/Hubbell Lighting

SpecLight/Acuity Brands

Sportsliter Solutions/Hubbell Lighting

Sprecher+Schuh/Rockwell Automation

Square D/Schneider Electric

Sta-Kon/Thomas & Betts

Steel City/Thomas & Betts

Sterner/Hubbell Lighting

Stonco/Genlyte Thomas

Superstrut/Thomas & Betts

Sure Test/Ideal Industries

Sure-Lites/Cooper Industries

Sylvania lamps/Osram (Siemens)

T.J. Cope/Tyco

Taylor/Thomas & Betts

Telemecanique/Schneider Electric

Texas Instruments controls division/Siemens Energy and Automation

Thepitt Manufacturing/Cooper Industries

Thomas Lighting/Genlyte Thomas

Tomstar Controls/Pass and Seymour

Translite/Genlyte Thomas

Triangle Wire & Cable/Superior Essex

Ty-Fast/Thomas & Betts

Ty-Rap/Thomas & Betts

UltraSIL/Cooper Industries

Unenco/Hubbell Lighting

Uni-Fab/Tyco

Union/Thomas & Betts

Unistrut/Tyco

USS Manufacturing/Genlyte Thomas

Vari Lite/Genlyte Thomas

Versa-Trak/Thomas & Betts

Walker division of Butler Manufacturing/Wiremold

Watt Stopper Inc./Pass and Seymour

WaveTek LAN division/Ideal Industries

West Penn Wire/Cable Design Technologies Inc.

Westinghouse Electric Corp./Cutler-Hammer/Eaton Corp.

Westinghouse lamps/North American Philips (now Philips Lighting)

Westwire Co. (Triangle)/Superior Essex

Wide-Lite/Genlyte Thomas

Wiegmann/Hubbell

Wiremold/Legrand

Zed/Genlyte Thomas

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