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    A-D wins national contracts with Michelin, ConAgra

    July 1, 2003
    Affiliated Distributors, Inc. (A-D), Wayne, Pa., won major national maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) contracts with two large customers. Michelin

    Affiliated Distributors, Inc. (A-D), Wayne, Pa., won major national maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) contracts with two large customers. Michelin Corp., out of the U.S. headquarters in Greenville, S.C., signed a contract with A-D under which A-D's electrical distributors will supply all MRO products nationwide to Michelin's 14 plant locations in the U.S. and Canada. The contract is valued at $20 million dollars.

    A-D's other recently secured contract is with ConAgra's Poultry Division, headquartered in Atlanta. A-D did not specify the value of the deal but described it as a "multi-million-dollar contract." A-D members will supply 21 facilities in the southeastern U.S.

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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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