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    Pass & Seymour buys GE's C/I wiring device

    May 1, 2003
    Pass & Seymour/Legrand purchased Caribe GE Wiring Devices, Inc., Warwick, R.I., for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition includes the manufacturing assets

    Pass & Seymour/Legrand purchased Caribe GE Wiring Devices, Inc., Warwick, R.I., for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition includes the manufacturing assets of GE commercial and industrial wiring devices.

    GE Wiring Devices, with annual sales of $18 million, will add market share and new products, such as some high-amperage devices, to Pass & Seymour's commercial/industrial wiring device line, says Bob Smith, vice president of sales and marketing for Pass & Seymour. The agreement also gives Pass & Seymour a stronger position at GE Supply Co., Shelton, Conn., a large distributor for the GE Wiring devices product line.

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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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