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    Cooper Lighting buys Neo-Ray Products

    May 1, 2003
    Making its first acquisition in indirect fluorescent lighting, Cooper Industries, Inc., Houston, Texas, purchased the assets of Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Neo-Ray

    Making its first acquisition in indirect fluorescent lighting, Cooper Industries, Inc., Houston, Texas, purchased the assets of Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Neo-Ray Products, Inc. Terms were not disclosed.

    Neo-Ray manufactures direct/indirect fluorescent lighting products. The business, which employs 130 people and had 1998 revenues of $22 million, will become part of Cooper Lighting and will place the company among the leaders in indirect lighting, says John Riley, president, chairman and chief executive officer for Cooper Industries.

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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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